"CREATION" (An Article by Christian Henry) ~ 4/3/25

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” 

(Genesis 1:1, 27)

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Romans 1:20)

In the beginning, it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the expression and revelation of the glory of His power and goodness to create the world. God did this all in the span of six days and saw that it was all very good. His eternal wisdom was on full display when he made everything necessary to sustain His beings, who He had not even created yet.

I have often heard people who claim to be experts on every subject mock us Bible-believing Christians. They scoff and say, “Psh. You really believe this nonsense? So childish.” They roll their eyes and call us naive for believing in something so far-fetched, but I’ll ask you this: what is more far-fetched: a universe creating itself out of nothing or a loving, caring, divine Creator who made everything for His creation? I find the latter option infinitely more beautiful and much easier to believe.

After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female. They were designed with reasoning and immortal souls, rendering them fit to live life for their Creator by His will. We were all made in the image of God. This doesn’t mean we all physically look like God (as we might resemble our earthly parents), but rather that we resemble our Heavenly Father in more critical ways. Ways like knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. We were all created in God’s image in a metaphysical sense.

Since creation, the law of God has been written in our hearts, known as the human conscience. Even a small child who has never been exposed to the things of God, knows when he does something wrong. So, we have always had some fundamental understanding of God’s will, but we had the power to fulfill it upon creation. We lived under the possibility of transgressing the will of our Father. Being left to the liberty of their own will, our first parents were free to rebel and, therefore, potentially unstable. God would later restrict this will because of their offense.

Besides the law written in their hearts, they received a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. While they kept this command, they were happy in their communion with God. They had dominion, lordship, and control over all other creatures as Genesis 1:26 says, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”