IN THE BEGINNG
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
There had been no mention of the beginng of time in any literature or any religion out of the Bible until the appearance of Big Bang Theory.
But the first verse of first chapter of the Bible testifies the beginng of time.
But evolution theory says that universe was created by itself.
Self-creation is a self-contradiction by itself.
Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
When Moses asked the name of God, God said His name was “I AM WHO I AM.” Only LORD exists by himself. No being can exist out of His command.
Because God commanded them to exist the heavens and the earth have been there.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
No one can say “I had not known that there is God.” Because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse.
Let’s think about a digital camera. We can guess that there were designers, ideas and makers. No one think that cameras exist by chance out of nothing.
There were designers, some ideas and makers for production of the camera. Designers must have known the light reflexion principles, light receptor chips and image processing softwares.
Cameras have lense, aperture, image sensor, focusing instrument, image processor and memory storages. Out eyes have similar structures. They have lenses, aperture(ciliary body), focusing muscles, macula and imaging processing and storaging nerves.
Romans 1:21 (ESV)
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
There are most weird two things in the world. The first is exchanging the glory of the immortal God for idols. The second thing is in verse 24.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
These are consequences of exchanging the glory of God for false gods. They served the creature rather than the Creator.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
dokimazo: approve as worthy
adokimos: debased
When you honor God, God will make you worthy. If you don’t honor Him, he will give you up to debased mind.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.