MOD 1:Did Jesus Believe in Creation?

Did Jesus Believe in Creation?
Supplemental Reading

John D. Morris, Ph.D.
Back To Genesis
No. 27b, March 1991

In Christ's day, the prevailing philosophy on origins included evolution andlong ages of earth history. Their view, of course, was not Darwinianevolution, but it held that the earth and the universe, acting on itself bythe forces of nature (which were given names by some) had organized itselfinto its present state, and was responsible for all of life. The same wastrue for the philosophy of Moses' day, as he prepared the book of Genesis.

Genesis stands in opposition to such a view, insisting that a transcendentGod, external to the universe had called the universe and all it containsinto existence from nothing. Genesis further reveals the steps God tookduring a six-day period to bring this about, and reveals that those dayswere only thousands of years ago, not millions or billions.

When God stepped into the space/time universe which He had created Hestepped into a world dominated by those who denied His creative acts, andwhose intellectual descendants still refuse to honor Him as Creator. And so,as we try to form our own beliefs about creation, it would behoove us todiscern His views on creation and to believe likewise. When we examine Histeachings, we will find that Jesus was not only the Creator, He was also a"creationist." Let us briefly look at some of the passages which revealthis:

No natural process was responsible for creation—rather, God, Himself, created:
	"...from the beginning of the creation which God created" (Mark 13:19).
The cosmos had a definite beginning. Matter is not eternal:
	"...such as was not since the beginning of the world (Greek kosmos) to this time" (Matthew 24:21).
The world had been "founded." Not just coalesced from interstellar dust:
	"...for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world" (John 17:24).
Even the sun was of God's doing:
	"...He maketh His sun to rise" (Matthew 5:45).
As to plants and animals, each created "kind" was of a different sort:
	"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (Matthew 7:16).
Furthermore, God had made provision for even the birds (see Genesis 1:30):
	"Behold the fowls of the air: ...your heavenly Father feedeth them" (Matthew 6:26).
The Sabbath was a day of rest in commemoration of the completed creation:
	"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27).
Men and women were created at the start, not 4,000,000,000 years after the start:
	"From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female" (Mark 10:6).
And the union of Adam and Eve forms the basis of our doctrine of marriage:
	"Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh" (Matthew 19:6).
The two supposedly contradictory accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and 2 are fully compatible:
	"Have ye not read that He...made them male and female[quoting Genesis 1 :27], and said, "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: And they twain shall be one flesh'?" [quoting Genesis 2:24] (Matthew 19:4, 5).

These and other teachings of Christ, when coupled with the total lack of anyreference to evolution or long ages, give us complete confidence that ourLord, the Creator, accepted the Genesis account of creation in its mostliteral sense. Dare we believe otherwise?

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