Creation

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Colossians 1:13-17 says, “ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:  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.”

     I have this app on my phone where I can speak to people from all over the world who are having trouble with one thing or another.  Sometimes, it is not a happy place, but a lot of people need help.  One of my more recent contacts is a person who is a nurse.  She has had long term covid and as such was willing to talk to anyone regardless of age, so I replied with my usual age and the fact that I was a retired pastor.  She immediately disclosed that she was an atheist.  It didn’t matter with me, so we have been texting back and forth and perhaps she like C.S. Lewis, will change her mind.

     It would seem that believing in God would be far easier than being an atheist.  As Mark Lowry says, “It takes a lot of faith to be an atheist.”  Order in the universe has to ultimately come back to “first cause.”  That is going to be God and there is no getting around it.  The lengthy passage above reminds us just Who was doing the creating in the first place.  Once we determine that “His dear Son” is the Lord Jesus Christ, then you just need to follow the rest of the pronouns down through the passage and see how and why the universe was created.  “All things were created by Him, and for Him.”  An atheist has to assume that one can take the mechanism of a watch completely apart, every screw spring, hands, dial, jewels and put them in a bag and that if you shook them long enough they would eventually randomly come back together with the right time on the face of the watch. Professor Bishop would do that each first day of the new school year at Washington Bible College.  Not one screw ever found its way into any hole on the watch yet so called educated people believe in the fact that a gaseous belch in the universe started life and formed all the planets and stars in one great burp.  Now, which view takes more faith to believe?  Colossians 1 details what was taking place in Genesis one.   So, for the believer it is simple to state that in the beginning, God…”  We need to praise Him for the act of creation and the plan of salvation as it winds its way through the Bible.