Reflections:
Creation and its Creator - Part 5
By Enoch Reuben Muniah, Johannesburg
Continuity and Chronology
It is fascinating to note, that apart from Genesis 1:1 every verse thereafter begins with the word “and”. This would suggest continuity as far as God’s days of creation are concerned, i.e., 6 days of work and the 7th day of rest.
It is a conjunction that affirms sequential and chronological connection with the verses before and after. What is described in verse 2 follows immediately upon the creative act of verse 1. The argument for or against a 24-hour day/night timeline has been debated for centuries. However, the argument for 6 literal days has gained extensive support and the length of days could only have been that of a normal solar day.
This means that the earth rotating on its axis received sunlight on one side (12 hours), corresponding to the sun. The ‘day’ was the ‘light’ when God did His work and between the ‘evening’ and the ‘morning’ was darkness when God did no work. The words of the Lord Jesus ring true when He said, “I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work” (Jn. 9:4).
The words in verse 2, ‘form’, ‘void’ and ‘darkness’ implies that God had not yet formed anything. The earth was not yet inhabited and because the sun was not yet created. From day one to day four, no living creatures were created. On day 5 God created all the animals; on day 6 God created man and on day 7 He rested from all His works.
His Kindness and the Kinds
At this point the earth was still ‘void’ of living creatures. It was at first necessary for God to make the environment conducive for living creatures. With this, came every moving creature that creeps upon the earth; every fowl of the air; every marine life in the ocean and every beast of the field; everything ‘after its kind.’
The phrase ‘after its kind’ implies that God created everything with its unique DNA structure. Subsequently, the master architect who is God Himself, designed for the earth to produce herb yielding seed, ‘after its kind.’ There may be variations of the cosmetic or physical make- up of a certain kind but its genetic composition or DNA is always consistent. That means there would be a constant replicating of that type of organism with its unique structure of DNA.
For example; an apple tree will not bear grapes or an offspring of a lion will not be a dog and so on. This immediately refutes that outlandish and preposterous, ideology of evolution.
Mankind, after his seed produced man. So, man did not evolve from primates such as apes. Someone commented, “My great grand-parents may have swung by their neck for something they did wrong but they most certainly did not swing by their tails.”
Those who subscribe to such trash do not know that “it is either bad zoology or inept biology.” Man is the highest order of God’s creation and the most intelligent. God’s creation then begs the question why and when did the ape stop becoming a man?
Unlike the animals that are dichotomy i.e.: body and soul, man is trichotomy i.e.: he is body, soul, and spirit, tripartite as mentioned earlier. Man’s body makes him world-conscious; man’s soul makes him man-conscious and man’s spirit makes him God- conscious.
While there can be mutation within each ‘kind,’ there can never be transmutation between the ‘kinds’.
Notice in26:1 God says, “Let us make” and in verse 27 it says, ‘God created man”. Is this a contradiction? Certainly, not! The “let us” in verse 26 re-affirms the tri- unity of the God-head. G&P
(To be continued)
