In response to "ga"

In response to a comment made in July (which I just read today - in September), I felt a prompting to respond through a new post - hopefully you will catch it! I know where you might be coming from and I struggled with this, too. If you're willing to see where I'm coming from and you have time to read the following, please do!

My grandpa is a geologist. He was taught about the evolutionary process, the different time periods of the earth, the geological column, etc. He was also a Christian. During a near death experience he was tormented and asked my grandma if Genesis was true... he realized that everything he believed as a geologist was contrary to what the Bible said.

In the end, I just believe the Bible literally. That is my source, my interpretation and ultimate trust in life. I feel that there is a battle for the beginning (the title of a really good book sold at Grace to You) and evolution totally opposes creationism from its very core. I guess, if God could do anything and create anything at anytime, why would he take millions and billions of years to create things when he could take a literal 24-hour time period? He spoke and the universe (meaning a "single spoken sentence") came into existence! God's word is ultimately powerful beyond our imagination and yet we try to rationalize and try to fit it into other worldviews and schemas to appease the general opinion of today. It takes faith to believe that God is an awesome Creator and could create the universe in 6 days (7th being His day of rest). If he can create a new heaven and a new earth, as described in Revelation, why would God wait take millions and billions of years (while us saints wait in limbo) when he could do this right away?

The Bible gives glory to God and everything in it needs to be taken as the truth. If you begin to add or not agree with certain parts of the Bible (such as being a myth or allegory) that kind of rationalization is dangerous. God's word is truth, THE TRUTH, and if he told us things were made in a day, they were...

It also doesn't make sense that dinosaurs were made and then wiped out before man even was created because death (a result of sin) was caused by man first, which then in turn affected the rest of creation. The Book of Job even has passages about dinosaurs (Job 40 and 41 - they're not hippos or elephants!). Kent Hovind also talks about dinosaurs being wiped out by a flood and how some survived and even were recorded by groups of people around the world (by the way they were not called dinosaurs back then!). If you think dinosaurs were wiped out before man existed, then you might rationalize that the flood in Genesis was not a worldwide flood as described in Genesis 7:24. This whole slippery slope eventually leads to an outcome predicted in 2 Peter 3:5-7. These verses predict that in the end times people will deny a worldwide flood even happened! Or, that through GOd's word the heaven's existed and the earth was formed.

In a message to the last church in Revelation, Laodicea, Jesus delares that he is the "ruler of God's cration." Why would he make such a statement like that unless we, as Christians, are forgetting something... if only we weren't lukewarm and really had a thirst for truth that we help us delve deeper into God's word and find the truth! Seek and ye shall find!

Ultimately it comes down to what is truth? It's something that God needs to reveal to you. Pray and ask God these questions and search the Scriptures with an honest effort. You won't be disappointed... in fact, it's quite exciting! May all glory be given to God!