The Great- Great- Great Grandson of Dr.
Frankenstein had successfully reanimated dead human tissue. But instead of creating some monster, Dr.
Frankenstein decided to start a business.
He took human stem cell DNA and was able to successfully grow replacement
parts for humans. When someone needed a
new heart, a perfect replacement could be grown in the laboratory. New lungs, a new liver and kidneys; all of
this was now available to modern science.
Eventually the technology grew so advanced that he felt he no longer
needed God. One day Dr. Frankenstein
even told God, “We're to the point that we can clone people and do many
miraculous things, so we don’t need you anymore."
God listened very patiently and
kindly, but said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man
making contest. We’ll do this just like
I did in the beginning; back in the old days with Adam." Dr. Frankenstein heartedly agreed and bent
down and grabbed a handful of dirt ready to get to work. But God interrupted him and said, 'No, No,
No, you get your own dirt".
It is here that we see the immense gap
between human arrogance and God’s majesty.
God creates something from nothing while we boast about what we made
from a box of Tinker Toys. Humanity
feels so proud; so confident in its scientific progress and discovery. But truthfully, modern science has only
discovered what already exists and merely manipulated what has already been
created. The only thing we’ve
accomplished is to shrink God down to a manageable size.
In
the past few weeks I’ve shared some facts that truthfully can be hard to
accept, especially considering what some people want us to believe. They want us to believe that there was death
millions of years before Mankind ever walked the earth, yet the Bible says
otherwise. They want us to believe that it took Billions of years for the
universe to evolve, yet the Bible says something different. And we’ve been told that all of life is
nothing more than the combination of complex proteins, yet the Bible says it
was God. Part of the reason some people
cannot conceive in the Creation story is because they are imagining a world or
a universe that needed to be assembled.
They imagine grabbing a big handful of dirt and assembling this complex
world in which we live. And of course something so complex would take a great
deal of time. However, for the Christian
the answer to these mysteries is quite simple (Read Genesis 2:1-4a).
The
issue of Time is probably the greatest difference between the Biblical account
of Creation and the scientific theory of Evolution. In order to assemble a universe so vast and
so complex, Evolutionary Scientists need a great deal of time, 4.5 Billion
years to be precise. And the more
complex the world becomes, the more time they need. But the Bible tells a different story; a
story that makes many people scoff.
According to the Bible God only needed 6 days.
And
as difficult as that six day number can be for some, let me give you another
number that will throw a wrench into the Evolutionary Machine. According to the biblical timeline, God
created the heavens and the Earth about 6,000 years ago. Just hearing that number raises a few
eyebrows, doesn’t it? It’s a difficult
number to imagine, especially considering all the research that says otherwise.
The
Bible records a span of about 4000 years from the creation of Adam to the birth
of Christ. And interestingly,
archeological evidence will corroborate that time frame. Discoveries from other cultures confirm or
punctuate the date of certain events in biblical history. From the kingdom of Persia comes the Cyrus
Cylinder or from Assyria we have the Qarqar Tablet. Using these as a cross reference, historians
have been able to date the events as described in the Old Testament according
to our modern calendar. One only needs
to then add up the years mentioned in the Bible, such as the reference given in
Genesis 5 or Genesis 11.
I
know. This seems to contradict the
“scientific” evidence found in measuring distant stars or conducting radiometric
dating of the earth. There is the idea
of a “Gap Theory”; where a huge time gap is inserted between Genesis 1:1 and
Genesis 1:2. There is where the great
span of time took place. I’m not going
to spend time arguing about any of that.
But what I do want to point out is that there is a huge difference
between how old something is and how long it has existed.
Now I
know you’re probably thinking “Huh?”, so let me explain. If you had the ability to create a house out
of thin air, what sort of house would you create? Would you create a pile of bricks and mortar
that needed to be assembled, or would you create a house ready to be
occupied? Would you order a truck load
of lumber and nails and shingles, or would the roof already be in place? Now any sane person who had this ability
would imagine what they wanted then say Bibbidy, Bobbidy, Boo and watch the
entire house appear. In an instant that
empty lot would contain a house fully assembled and ready to move into. This just seems to make sense. However, if some scientist came along, he
would discover lumber that might be hundreds of years old, which naturally
makes sense. You certainly don’t frame a
house with green lumber. The same could
be said about the bricks or the sand in the mortar. And yet you know perfectly well that the
house just came into existence.
It is
the same with the universe and this earth.
Looking at day 1 and 2 of creation it’s quite clear that God spoke the
universe and this world into existence ready to be occupied, not waiting to be
assembled. We see the same thing on day
3. The plants were created old enough to
bear seeds and reproduce. An oak tree
doesn’t start producing acorns until it is 50 to 60 years old. An apple tree is usually six years old before
it bears fruit. And the same could be
said about the animals. To answer the
age old question, it was the chicken that came first, not the egg. Even Adam and Eve were created old enough to
reproduce. God did not create mankind as
infants. Adam would have appeared perhaps
21 while being only a day or two old. So
although our modern-day dating methods point to how old something might be,
that doesn’t indicate how long that thing has been in existence.
What
does all this mean to you and me? It
means that God is far bigger than we can possibly imagine. It means that nothing in this world, on this
world, or in this universe is beyond His ability to control or manage. It means that when we become fearful of what
tomorrow might bring or when we lose faith that God is even watching over us,
we have actually shrunk God down to a size we can fathom or understand. It means that when doubts assail us we just
might need a crisis in order to see the mighty power and authority of our God.
I
sense great fear from a lot of people now days.
I sense worry and concern. So
many people are deeply stressed about what might happen in the future. There are wars and rumors of wars. Everywhere you look there is a crisis – from
health to finances. And for some the
crisis is personal. But I suspect that
there is fear in our lives because we have shrunk God down to a manageable
size. If Jesus were here today I’m sure
He would ask us the same question He asked the Apostles while facing a terrible
storm that threatened their lives.
“Where is your faith”, He asked.
And what He meant is “Do you really think all of this is out of God’s
control? Do you really think this is
more than He can handle?”
Do
you want faith to remain steadfast through a crisis? Do you want courage to face a trial? Remember this: your God spoke everything into
existence. That’s right: spoke. And this same God has numbered the very hairs
of your head. So the next time you are
experiencing a storm in our own life or when it seems the whole world is
falling apart, hold your crisis next to a God so majestic and powerful that He
could create all of life in just six days.
Trust me. The bigger God becomes,
the stronger your faith will be.
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