GOD SPEED
THE LIGHT
Marcelo Augusto de Carvalho
The book of Genesis is the historical
and theological framework for the basis of all creationist doctrine about the
origin of life and all that it contains. Any facet of human life, whether
physical, mental, moral or social depends on what this fascinating book says.
If we want to build the psychic model of man we need to start with its origin
so that we can define its reason for living and this can only be found
satisfactorily in the first biblical book. If we want to understand why man
despite possessing so many inherent abilities in his personality is often so
unhappy in his heart, cannot overcome his challenges and achieve his goals, we
need to study this book, especially its first three chapters and then we will
discover that all this original potential has been
misrepresented and altered by the presence of sin in his life. This then
explains to us how some people who were geniuses never managed to control their
desires becoming a disgrace to society. That's why I think this study is
stimulating.
AUTHOR
We wish it had been Adam, but it wasn't
him. Of course, in the garden of Eden, God told Adam how everything was
created. He kept this account in his memory, but never thought of writing a
book because he did not need to; his mind was perfect and possessed fantastic
memory.
After sin, he had children and told them
all he learned from God and what he had seen in Eden. These in turn told their
children and thus from generation to generation was transmitted the history of
creation. Long after MOSES,
when exiled in Midian, shepherding his father-in-law's sheep, decided to write
what he had learned from his mother about creation thus being born the book of
Genesis around the year 1450 BC.
GENESIS 1
The Creation of the World and the Universe. Genesis.
1.1
This first
biblical statement is clear and blunt; points to God as the origin and reason
of all things created, both on our planet and throughout the universe. When we
actually believe in this verse, we have little difficulty believing in all the
rest of God's Word. This single verse refutes all the various pseudotheories invented by men about
origins, such as:
- All these theories unrelated to
biblical teaching teach that the present "cosmos" came into existence
by the operation of "gods" or the forces of nature or some mystical
principle acting on the material "substance" already existing in the
previous "chaos".
- But the Bible shows that God created all things
out of nothing!
The key question for understanding creationism and
evolutionism within a correct view is whether
all things were particularly created by the God of the Bible or whether they
developed from materials prior to their present forms through the operation of
inborn principles.
- If evolutionism is true, this "evolution" continues today, since
it is to be assumed that the same principles continue to operate.
- However, according to the Bible, in a
special way Genesis. 2.1-3
CURRENT PROCESSES CANNOT BE CREATION
PROCESSES
This fact is scientifically proven by two basic
natural laws (the first laws of thermodynamics):
This law says that although energy can change shape,
it cannot be created or destroyed and therefore the total sum of energy is
constant.
That is, this law establishes that in the present nothing is
being created or destroyed.
This law states that in any process or
system in which energy is being transformed into other forms, at least a
certain part of it becomes thermal (heat) energy that, in turn, cannot be
converted into other useful forms.
That is, all current systems tend to decay and clutter.
This trend is totally opposed to the concept of
evolution, because things regress rather than develop.
In this way, both science and the
Bible teach that creation is not happening now.
Hence there is no possibility of
experimentally studying any of the processes of creation. Whatever we want to
know about it, we can only learn it from what He alone can tell us- God.
WHAT DOES ELLEN G. WHITE
SAY?
-
The teaching of
evolutionism lowers the
Great Creator's masterpiece to the level of the narrow and earthly conceptions
of man. Patriarchs and Prophets 28.
- These pagan theories of creation exist
only to exclude God from
the sovereignty of the universe, resulting in the degradation of man and the
loss of human dignity. Patriarchs and Prophets 28.
- Outside of biblical history, geology can prove
nothing. Scientists do
not have an adequate conception of the size of men, animals and trees prior to
the flood, or of the great changes that then took place. Remains found on
the earth prove the conditions that in many respects differed from the present; but the time when these
conditions existed can only be discovered by the sacred record. Patriarchs and
Prophets 38.
- Geological discoveries should inspire
faith in the biblical account, but man directs it in the opposite direction.
Patriarchs and Prophets 39.
- The Bible should not be proven by the scientific
ideas of men. Patriarchs and Prophets 40.
- God is not restricted or restricted by
his own laws. Nature is the serva of its Creator. God does not annull His laws,
nor does he act contrary to them; but he is continually employing them as His
instruments. Patriarchs and Prophets 40 and 41.
- God's work of the creation of this world is finished. Hebrews
4.3.
- But His energy is still used to sustain the goals of His
creation. It is not because the mechanism, which once set in motion,
continues to act by its own inherent energy that the pulse beats; but every
breath is proof that He keeps
his creatures alive. Acts 17.28. Your hand guides the planets, and keeps them in position in their
orderly march through the heavens. It makes the vegetation grow, feeds all
the animals, rules the clouds and prepares the rains, and so on Isaiah 40.26;
Psalm 104. 27-28; Psalm 147.16; Jeremiah. 10.13.
God created not only the Earth's atmosphere but also outer space; in
fact, the Earth is just a small particle spinning around the Sun if we compare
it to the rest of the Universe. Of the nine planets in the Solar System, Earth
is one of the smallest. Its orbit around the Sun is also small compared to that
of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. And if we compare our system with the
size of the universe then we are reduced to nothing.
- To understand better let's see; the Earth revolves around the
Sun along with other planets that together form our Solar System. But there are
many other suns, in fact millions and millions of them, and each can have
planets, composing more solar systems.
The union of many such systems form a galaxy and
there are millions of them through space, each with billions of stars and suns.
Scientists have
recently claimed that groups of galaxies may be traveling together in a giant
system they call the "supergalaxy." An astronomer has calculated that our
Milky Way is part of a supergalaxy composed of 15 galaxies, and that they are
rotating around a common center, and that our galaxy is traveling at a speed of
1 million and 600,000 km per hour around this center. It is possible that in
this center is the throne of God.
Using a simple language of the greatness
of the Universe we see that it is so extensive that despite possessing all
parts of its domains suns and gigantic stars emitting light the Universe is
dark and gloomy. There are billions and billions of miles from one star to
another.
- God created Time simultaneously with the creation of Space and
Matter (heaven and earth).
What
was earth like before creation?
- There was no form because there was no order on
the planet; absolute darkness for there were no lamps in the firmament.
- The Earth was nothing more than just a mass of elements in the
form of gas, steam and solids that rotated suspended in the air.
- But even so, God in His Spirit
controlled, maintained, and supervised this space of chaos. (An interesting
parallel is made from es"movement" in creation with the inspiration
of biblical prophets. 2 Peter 1:21).
- It seems that, according to 2 Peter
3:5, God formed the consistency of the earth by water and through water. The material
conformation of the primitive earth was somehow constituted in a water matrix.
Creation-
GÊnesis 1.3
- Suddenly God echoed His voice through
the ends of the abyss, and suddenly created the earth. - God did not depend on
pre-existing matter. He was the very origin of everything.
- Created initially "out of
nowhere", space ("the
heavens") and matter
("the earth"), in concomitance with time itself ("the principle"), God proceeded
to form the informed earth, initially smothered in waters and darkness, and
then providing inhabitants with its silent surface.
- But a question deserves curious
attention; how much
energy must God have used to create the earth? Dr. Haroldo G. Coffin of Andrews
University estimates that it would be the energy released by the Sun for 44 million years.
- The revelation of such facts: God told them to Adam, and
this information was kept by generations until it was written in a book by
Moses. Scientifically it would be impossible to discover such facts.
THE LIGHT
Genesis 1.3-4.
- After creating time, space, and matter, God then
created light.
- Why was the light of your first creation? Of all forms of
energy, the most fundamental is light, closely related to all other forms of
energy. According to Einstein (E= mc2), c is the speed of light, tremendous
speed that serves as a mandatory reference point for all other types of
movement that occur in the physical universe.
- Although the light source was not yet
the sun in its current form, the succession of afternoons and mornings shows
that the rotation of
the earth on its axis had already begun.
- Light is a form of visible energy. We do not know what kind
of energy this was, but probably the light originated from the Creator, where
he who, when he dwelt, said, "I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD."
- It is no surprise to us that God finds
good light, Genesis 1.4. She's spectacular. Perhaps nothing in the Universe has
as much energy and power as it does, so it represents the Creator himself so
well.
- On the power of light, we see for example the light of
a clear lightning. The energy of lightning we call electricity, and we measure
it in volts or amperes. The electrical force is caused by the free movement of
electrons from one side to the other, usually through a wire. The voltage is
the pressure at which electrons move and amperage is the number of electrons
that move. When 6 quintillion and 242 quadrillion electrons pass at a certain
point of a wire in 1 second, this is an ampere. Now imagine lightning in any
storm; it can measure more than 100 million volts and 160,000 amperes. It was
because there was so much energy accumulated that it must not have been
difficult for God to separate day and night by the presence and absence of
light.
You can travel
- This fact explains the text of Daniel 9.23 and
teaches us a precious lesson; Daniel had received a terrible sight that had
left him very disturbed. I was praying and meditating for weeks, but I couldn't
understand her. In his despair, he cried out to God for help, and had the much
desired revelation. At the end of his prayer the angel Gabriel made a fantastic
statement to him; he stated that at the beginning of the prayer he received the
order and came immediately. We don't know how far the throne of God from Earth
is. We don't know where the angel was when Daniel prayed; could be even further
away. But he received the news and arrived before Daniel finished a prayer that
takes no more than a minute to pronounce it. How fast!
APPEAL: This teaches us how fast God is
to come to our rescue. Every time we are in trouble, He immediately comes to
our rescue. We do not need to feel abandoned, alone, despised when pain and
sadness oppress us; God is always at our side. Believe this!
SOURCE
Adventures of Creation. Dr. Haroldo G,
Coffin. Casa Publicadora Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. 1993 edition.
Youth Inspiration. Casa Publicadora
Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. Editions from 1977 to 2005.
Pr. Marcelo Augusto De Carvalho -
April 1997 São Paulo SP