And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. This is how Genesis 1:3 starts, and what a wonderful statement it is. The account of God creating the world, and how he created it has caused quite a stir among Christian, and non-Christian circles in recent times. It has be causing rifts in church’s as well as doctrine and education faculties and homes. But does it have to be all science and theories? Can’t we just open our eyes and look around? Is it such a great sin to use the brains God has blessed us with?

I believe God created the world in 6 literal days, and as Christians we shouldn’t even begin to play with the notion that it is anything else but that.. Why? Well because the bible clearly states it in the first 7 chapters of Genesis (the bible really isn’t written in some special code that requires some kind of higher grade spirituality to use it.). For those of you trying to claim that God had to use millions of years to create the world are just trying to fit in with “the world” view and science and are too scared to place some faith in God.
Even if we choose not to place faith in God, as Christians we still can’t argue against a six day creation. You see the word for ‘day’ in Hebrew used through out the account of creation is ‘yom’, which clearly means ‘one day’. If we can’t believe the first few chapters of the bible, how are we ever going to be the rest? I’m not going to delve any deeper into this topic, but if you have any questions on it. Just read “Did God really take 6 days”.

So as Christians we should believe the entire bible, since it states in 2 Timothy 3:16 that “All Scripture is God-breathed”, which is basically saying that all scripture is and was inspired by God, and everything in the bible is written the way God wanted it to be. So if God wanted Moses to use the word yom, then I’m sure God did so because it was 6 days, and not 6 millions days. If we choose to believe otherwise, we really have to question our motives and then also question our faith.

You see if we can’t believe something as simple as God creating the universe and everything in it in 6 days, how will we ever be able to truly believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, so that we may be saved, when we repent and believe in Him. Beware those of you who do not accept the bible as it is, or who try to change the meaning of a single word in the bible, because you leave yourself open to just about any kind of heresy, and will start to justify any of your actions, no matter how far from the truth.

The funny thing is, sometimes we don’t even need to have ‘blind faith’. All we need to do is just open our eyes and look… Now you are probably wondering, what am I on about? Well let me just tell you a quick story.. On Saturday (25-11-06) I went for a hike with a couple of friends of mine up Table Mountain (in Cape Town). Well, when I say hike I actually mean “a 5hr grueling torture trek sent from hell”. Be it as it may, through some slave driving and motivation, as well as an icy wind we some how we survived and managed to conquered this large piece of barren rock, more fondly known as Table Mountain.

So, you ask yourself, what does this have to do with creation or the bible? Well that’s simple, you see. Even though all I could do is think about trying to find the escape or pause button, I did actually have some time to just sit and take in the breathless scenery. And WOW, was it a sight to behold. eg..

So, as I was sitting and staring at this awesome sight, I came to realize how great and powerful God really is, and how absolutely small and insignificant we really are in this world. To then realize that God created all of this for us,
to enjoy and look after is such an eye opener.

As I sat there looking out across the bay I came to realize how structured and ordered everything is, and how hard it must be for someone to try and claim that all of this is a chanced happening that took millions of years , it is just completely baffling. Anyone who is just willing to open there eyes(or even just take a peak), has an IQ greater than 2 can see that no amount of “evolution” could ever create anything as beautiful as this. Science itself has proven that anything left on it’s on own just falls into the clutches of chaos and degeneration.

God created the universe for us, so say that he created in 6 millions and after a couple of million attempts finally got it just the way he wanted, and then decided to morph us from apes to humans is saying that God is a wasteful, cruel and imperfect God, who even goes against his own words (by contradicting the bible), in other words, calling God a liar.

I just pray that people could just open there eyes and just look around every now and then, pray and read the bible, and then maybe, just maybe come to realize the wonders God has given to us to enjoy while we are on earth.