Introduction: Why do people reject the creation account? How do we engage people who reject the doctrine of creation?
I. CREATION IS A MATTER OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:1-3a)
• God made all things out of nothing: Gen. 1:1 “barah”
• By the word of His power: Heb. 1:3 “rhema tais dunamis”
• In the space of 6 days, and all very good: Gen. 1:1-31
II. GOD IS REVEALED IN HIS CREATION (Hebrews 11:3b)
• Literal Greek translation of v. 3b “So that they (the creation) became the visible of things not visible.”
• God's creation is a “mirror of divinity.”
'... that we have in this visible world, a conspicuous image of God; and thus the same truth is taught here, as in Romans 1:20, where it is said, that the invisible things of God are made known to us by the creation of the world, they being seen in his works. God has given us, throughout the whole framework of this world, clear evidences of his eternal wisdom, goodness, and power; and though he is in himself invisible, he in a manner becomes visible to us in his works.
Correctly then is this world called the mirror of divinity; not that there is sufficient clearness for man to gain a full knowledge of God, by looking at the world, but that he has thus so far revealed himself, that the ignorance of the ungodly is without excuse. Now the faithful, to whom he has given eyes, see sparks of his glory, as it were, glittering in every created thing. The world was no doubt made, that it might be the theater of the divine glory.' Calvin, Commentary on Hebrews pp. 205, 206 |
