Doctrine pages 77-108

This chapter was all about creation. It says that creation is a gift from God and God created everything. He created the Heavens and the Earth (as said in Genesis 1:1), he created all of the planets and the stars, he created everything. I thought it was interesting how they said that there was a pattern to God's words in Genesis, which is the first book in the Bible. They said that the announcement was "And God said", the commandment was "Let there be", separation was God's separation of night and day, water and land, animals and plants, the report was "And it was so", and the evaluation was "And God saw that it was good". I really liked this because it kind of broke it down in terms I had never thought about before. There was a long list about what creation reveals about God, and it was this: God is the only God, Trinitarian, eternally, living, independent, transcendent, immanent, personal, powerful, beautiful, holy, a prophet, and a sovereign king. I think it's so amazing how creation reveals all this about God and yet there is still so much we as humans don't know about him. This chapter went on to list all of the different theories of creation and how the earth came to be. These theories sound so silly when I know that God is the creator and nothing else helped creation. One thing that also helps me to believe that God is the creator is the fact that God is outside of time. This is hard for us to comprehend because we live inside of time, where this is all we know. We know that everything has to have been created somehow, but God has always been there, there was no creation of Him.