Volume 195 – Creation Moments

Earth Before Sun

Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Although there are those who believ...

Was the Sun Fainter in the Past?

Genesis 1:16 “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.” Those who believe in the theory of evolution are not always aware of all the implications of their belie...

The Expanse

Genesis 1:6-7 “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the fi...

Rodinia

Genesis 1:9 “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” We miss a great deal when we skip quickly through the historical account of creation, given to us in Genesis ...

Pangaea

Genesis 1:9 “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” In his 1858 book, La Création et sesmystèresdévoilés (The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled), geologist...

Fruit According to Its Kind

Genesis 1:11 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.” It can be a bit bewildering, searching through a nurser...

He Made the Stars Also

Genesis 1:16 “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.” The Bible gives us a tiny hint in Psalm 19 that the universe is vast when the Psalmist says: The heavens d...

For Signs, Seasons, Days and Years

Genesis 1:14 “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” There was a time when the stars in the sky were much more important ...

Swarms in the Ocean

Genesis 1:20a “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life…” One of the interesting things that we notice as we read through Genesis 1 is how economical on words the chapter is. A great deal is said with ve...

Let Birds Fly Across the Expanse

Genesis 1:20 “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” On the fifth day of the Creation Week, God created swarms of sea creatures....