Believe!

With all that said, let’s take a look at some of Christianity’s moving parts. It makes sense to start at the beginning; a discussion of creation. Here again, there are multiple perspectives on the biblical account of creation.  If you are a creationist, then the story of creation, as presented in the book of Genesis, is complete. If you are a Catholic, then the story of creation as it appears in Genesis, is “classic poetry”, which is, the telling of a true story, using symbolism.  If you best identify with the proponents of intelligent design, then you believe that God magnificently designed all that has been created, but the timing that you best understand is closer to that expressed by modern science.  Here is the essential question; what common theme runs through all of those?  A belief that God created everything that was created.  If you are not a Christian believer, I would recommend that you begin by reading Lee Sobel, The Case for Creation, or the more technical The Creator and the Cosmos, by Hugh Ross. These books credibly address Divine creation through the eyes of modern science.  As a doubting creationist, they were a great help to me, in coupling the creation account in Genesis to contemporary evidence that points to a perfectly designed, point in time creation. I will inject here, that I believe we Christians should be anxious to embrace the fact that science is beginning to validate creation, rather than stand in opposition to it. This is especially important for our young folks, who often feel that what they are learning in science class leads them further from, rather than closer to a creator God.   Now, with respect to creation, my job is to get you there, not necessarily to get you there “my way”.  The very first step in Christianity is to be accepting of a spirit God who was the creator of everything that we experience in the physical world. Everything Biblical flows from the fact that we are His creation … as such, each of us is simply “His.”  It follows, that we are best nurtured and maintained by our creator; remember what we said early on, “you don’t take your Ford to the Subaru dealer.”  As we move forward, you might consider this an exercise in renewing the alignment between you and your creator.

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