Christmas #4 – Creation, part 2

Here’s some more Scriptures on Creation. What I am trying to point to here is that the Bible repeatedly affirms God as the Creator of the world and all life in it. He is the one who stretches out the Heavens. Even before the beginning, He was God.

Our Lord is so great, so mighty beyond our comprehension. So often we try to limit Him in our small human imaginations. Oh, but He is far beyond that!

Once again, if you have trouble understand the Ye Olde English of the King James Version, please look up these Scriptures in your preferred translation of the Bible.

Psalm 102:25-28 (KJV)
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Isaiah 40:21-22 (KJV)
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Psalm 90:2 (KJV)
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 (KJV)
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

John 1:3 (KJV)
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Colossians 1:15-17 (KJV)
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Hebrews 1:1-3 (KJV)
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Isaiah 45:18-19 (KJV)
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Once again, how does all this link to Christmas? To understand the birth of Christ, we need to know why He came. And to know why He came, we have to see the bad news. Where does the bad news begin? It arises out of this glorious news that the Lord God is our Creator and He made all things perfect and for His purposes. Only then can we move on to the tragedy of the Fall…

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Further reading:

“What could the God of Scripture call very good?” by Dr J. Morris (2001), http://www.icr.org/article/608/ (accessed 25 September 2008).

“Clay Pots” – evidence for the Creator God, http://www.everystudent.com/au/wires/claypots.html (accessed 25 September 2008).