In my mind Genesis 1 is perhaps the most majestic statement in Scripture. God speaks, His will is expressed. I fear that we have lost sight of this in all our arguments over the literalness or otherwise of the creation days.
In the New Living Translation the word ‘said' appears 10 times, each time the speaker being God. As it was commanded into existence the earth was an expression of its Creator’s will. It was made to teem with life in all its different forms.
So we find in Isaiah 45:18 the following words: ‘For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos’, a statement that clearly recalls the chaos of Genesis 1:1,2.
Human beings were charged with responsibility to care for the creation in Genesis 1:28 when God said “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Responsibility is always accompanied by accountability. A time will come when humanity is called upon to account for the responsibility entrusted to them as is seen in Revelation 11:18: ‘The nations were filled with wrath, but now the time of your wrath has come. It is time to judge the dead and reward your servants the prophets, as well as your holy people, and all who fear your name, from the least to the greatest. It is time to destroy all who have caused destruction on the earth.”’
And that is all of us. Yet the whole purpose the Bible exists is to point us to Jesus Christ whose grace means we can if we want to experience the earth as it was meant to be experienced in the beginning.
Bible quoted: The New Living Translation.
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