Creation

      Do you have trouble believing what has been written in the first eleven chapters of Genesis? This same group of people will doubt what God said in the first verse.  I can say that I have not had any difficulty accepting the first eleven chapters of Genesis.  I always have been a person who would accept the Scriptures far above coming up with my own idea how things were done.  I accept Adam and Eve, I accept the creation of the universe, I accept Cain and Abel, I accept Noah and the ark, I accept the construction of the tower of Babel and everything that is between. I have believed it all for the first 80 years of my life and I am not going to start disbelieving it now.  hav3e I every been criticized fort this view?  The answer is "yes" and I have been described as a person who has parked my brain at the door when I walked in.  Colossians 1:15-17 says, " Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:   For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:   And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
       The New Testament is a rather strange spot to find information in regard to the beginning of things, but this passage says a lot.  All you have to do is to establish who "him" is in this verse and the answer becomes plain.  Going back to verses 7 and 13 and you come up with the Lord Jesus Christ.  The passage goes on to use the personal pronouns referring back to the Lord Jesus Christ.   The condition of our country and our belief system reflects our view of this passage of Scripture and its relationship to the first eleven chapters of Genesis.  The Apostle Paul has given us the information that details just how and why things were done.  Here again, I accept the phrase, "all things" as being true and right.  God has communicated to us by using the printed page and the very words of Scripture and I would much rather accept His explanation of things rather than the so called theologians of the world.  We live in a world where sin is rampant and morals are gone and in a place where values have been misaligned.  We can't kill puppies, but we can kill babies through abortion.  We must save the whales and polar bears and not use plastic straws, but we can kill millions of unborn children.  Our rejection of Genesis and the Author of Creation has brought us to the condition in which we are now living.  Only God can straighten out this mess and He has done it in the past and He certainly can do it again.  In all of the sad state of affairs of this life, we still have the hope that is given in the Word of God.  We have read the last chapter of the Book.  Praise God that He will straighten it all out in the end.  Even so, Come Lord Jesus!