Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (2024)
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Genesis 1:1-2:3
Genesis 1:1-2:3
My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we have the entire account of Creation from Genesis. This passage is important and it is vital for us to understand its importance and take to heart what God has given here in Holy Scripture. To understand why we stand firmly upon the confession that God is the Creator, not the shaper of things that already exist, but the creator it was by His Word that He created all things. Now you might think why is this so important? What does it matter? Let us talk about the importance of Creation, and what it means for us.
The Importance of Origins
Why do you want to know your origin?
It is important for us to know where we being, where we come from. It gives to us important information about our purpose, our place, and it helps us understand who we are. Consider
Is it important for a child to know their parents?
How much is left unknown, if a child doesn’t know their mom, or their dad? Where did your hair, your eyes, your smile, come from, the interests and passions, the struggles, the illnesses that come up. That’s why every child should have their mom and their dad, it doesn’t always happen, but it’s important for us as people. I hope you can see why mankinds origin is also very important.
The origin of mankind tells us our worth, purpose, and hope.
We are seeing this play out in our world, as it has played out over the centuries and in different cultures, that knowing our origin is of greater importance than people give it credit, and we have largely accepted the will of the world.
Doesn’t Science Solve this?
Experiments must be Measurable, Observable, and Repeatable.
This has been the foundation of our Scientific system for centuries, a scientific system that many christians played an important role in developing, Gregor Mendel who pieced together dominant and recessive traits in genetics was a monk, Johannes Kepler who figured out the laws of planetary motion, a Lutheran pastor. There’s some significant problems scientifically with evolution and
That’s why this remains a theory.
Who was there to measure the change of single celled organisms into multicellular? Who was there to observe the change from ape into man? So you have no one to observe it, no one who can measure it, and if this process took millions upon millions of years, how are you going to repeat that?
In fact, experiments disprove their theory.
It was believed at one point that maggots come from rotting meat, that mice would come from bundles of clothes, and that things would spontaneously generate. But we proved that was false. So where did life first come from? The first cell and the ones that followed would have to spontaneously generate, which we have proven is false.
Science is limited to the physical world.
This is why too you hear that the earth is millions or billions of years old, because they recognize the impossibility of this, and that the chances of life are on our planet are insanely small. So you extend out time to give more chances for this to happen. That is why the earth keeps getting older because they need to add more time.
The Worth of a Life
If Evolution is true, we’re just advanced animals.
We are the dominant species on the planet, and we got here by being more capable than all the rest. But we have no soul, and there aren’t any morals that guide us or would encourage us to watch over others. The way we got here is because its survival of the fittest.
If it’s survival of the fittest, how do you apply that?
Well what do you do with cattle or dogs? You identify desirable traits and then make sure those gets passed on. What about the undesirable traits? What if you could identify it before the animal was born? You might say that’s all just theory, except in 2017 Iceland boasted to have solved the problem of down’s syndrome by identifying them while they are yet in the womb.
If Genesis is true, you were created in God’s image.
Your worth comes not from the ongoing survival of the species, but because God fashioned mankind and gave us life, he knit us together while we were yet in our mother’s womb. There is a creator who placed each of us here, and our value doesn’t come from our genetics, but from God who gave us life.
Our worth and value comes from God.
This is not just your worth, but also your neighbors, why do you treat your neighbor with love and compassion, why do you care about their wellbeing, it’s because God cares about them and values them. That is why we treat each other with love and decency.
The Purpose
If Evolution is true, then we work to survive.
So you run the rat race to enjoy as much as you can here on earth, and to make sure you don’t run out of material goods. For once you die, that’s it and the time that you have comes to an end. There is nothing except this material world. However that brings some problems
There’s no heaven and life here is meaningless.
What is the point of trying to survive, if you don’t have anything worthwhile to pass on or are going to just endure hardship. You end up in the same nothingness. So why keep fighting and struggling, when you will just be forgotten anyway? Why not end their pain?
If Genesis is true, then God has placed you here.
God has placed us here to serve and help our neighbor. Now that might be as a child, helping out your parents, it might be as a parent helping this crazy child stay alive and grow into a decent person, it can be as a worker, a spouse, a friend, and the list goes on. God did not place you here by accident, but has declared you are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for Good works.
While this life ends, we live in eternity.
There is something that comes after, and it is something that we long to see, we aren’t in a rush to get there, for as long as we draw breath, God has not seen fit to take us to His side. For even if we endure great suffering or hardship, it reminds us of what Christ suffered for our sake, and it is there that we learn of Jesus’ love.
Our Hope
If Evolution is true, you’re a biological machine.
This means there is no real freedom, if you are a machine, then you have no spirit, no soul, nothing. All the pain and all the suffering you have, you are going through, and the nice thing is in the end, it won’t matter because you will be forgotten, and once you’re dead, there’s nothing.
If Genesis is true, then God cares about you.
So much so that when Adam and Eve brought death to mankind that He didn’t abandon His creation, but instead promised to save us, because it wasn’t just nothingness, but we would be suffering in hell for all eternity. So God out of love sent His Son, Jesus, into this world to shed His blood for you. There’s no greater love than that a man lays down his life for a friend, that is what Jesus considers you His friend.
You aren’t alone
You have Christ who cares about you! Who calls you His brother and His sister and has promised to take you to be with Him. This is what grants us strength on the days where the brokeness of the world weighs us down.
How do we know Genesis is True?
You would need someone who was there.
Because science can’t prove creation or evolution, you need an eye witness to the event and one who can bear witness to how everything came to be.
Jesus quotes Genesis as fact.
In Matt 19:4-6 and Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and then quotes from chapter 2.
Since Jesus rose from the dead, we trust Him.
For if He is the one who conquered death, the one through whom all things were made, and He says, that this how it was created, then we trust him.
My Brothers and Sisters, I am not able to cover everything, but this is an important for if you deny the opening the chapters of the Bible, or try to change them to fit with evolutionary theory, what happens when you get to the virgin birth, to healing the sick with a word, or even the resurrection? There are many more resources on these issues, and if you have questions, ask the questions, and we can compile the answers that you might make the good confession of faith.
