CHRISTIANS in a NATURALISTIC World MUST Know This Apologetic Approach!
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- Martyn Iles, CEO of Answers in Genesis, joins Josh on this episode of the G3 Podcast. They discuss the the Doctrine of Creation, Naturalism, and many other philosophies that will equip you with the right apologetic approach.
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What a great video! Informative and just great. Super blessed to have run into this. Thank you
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Wonderful piece on the apologetics of creation and question about which book to keep if incarcerated. As soon as it was asked, I said "Romans"; Blessings 🙏 from~ Oakland, CA
Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God .
This creation had a beginning. It didn't always exist. This is not saying that it was done at this point. It is simply stating the fact that God/Elohim did it. Elohim is plural. God is not just one being. God is a team. The team is one God. Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." God said, they created the shamayim and the erets.
You can see the word "mayim" in "shamayim". Shama meaning high or deep, relative to your perspective. Mayim generally means waters, but in this context, it could mean whatever fills the void of the space, something pre-matter, something spiritual.
Ge 1:2 And the earth moved upon the face of the waters .
The earth was unformed. It hadn't been formed yet. It was void. It didn't exist yet, but all of the ingredients to make it were there in the mayim of the shamayim, suspended in the matrix of the deep space. Darkness permeated the entire deep space of the shamayim.
The Holy Spirit of God acted upon the waters/mayim. Jesus compared the Spirit to water in John 4:14 and 7:38-39. I think the original water/mayim of creation was something spiritual. This physical creation didn't come from nothing.The natural didn't come from nature itself. It came from the spiritual. Matter is supernatural.
Ge 1:3 ¶ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Again, this is not the light of the Sun, because the Sun was not lit until the fourth day of creation (Gen.1:14-18). This light is the energy that powers the universe. God flipped the light switch, turned on matter and it was good. The shamayim went from deep darkness to light or energized. Light and matter came to be in the same instant because light and matter are inseparable. Light is supernatural.
Ge 1:5 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters , and let it divide the waters from the waters .
firmament: : an expanse, such as the sky - Today we call it the atmosphere, it has nothing to do with the word firm. The original "mayim" of creation would not be H2O, because matter did not exist before light. The mayim of the shamayim was whatever God filled the space with. The Spirit God moved upon the mayim and charged it with light; the mayim became all of the matter of the universe, including hydrogen and oxygen. God said, "let there be a firmament," or atmosphere beween the mayim of the earth and the mayim of the space. The mayim of the atmosphere we call air, but it is a mixture of gasses, including H2O. The mayim of the shamayim is the mixture of everything that is out there filling the space.
Ge 1:7 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
God planted his garden with all things of the kinds he has in the third heaven. And God called it a day.
14 ¶ And God
This is where some might try to insert the idea of evolution.
20 ¶ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
God populated the earth with all of the land dwelling creatures after his kind: and it was good. I suppose amphibious creatures would be a crossover. Maybe it depends on whether they spend most of their life in water or on land. Every living thing was created after a kind that already exists in the third Heaven. We didn't evolve from one single cell.
How did inanimate matter spontaneously organize into the first complex, living, functioning cell? How did the first cell learn to replicate? How did those first two unlikely cells learn to organize themselves into tissues, organs, a body, a brain, arms, legs, eyes, ears, a mouth, a stomach, a heart, lungs, and all of the other functions of a living being?
The unlikelyness is so astronomical that it is not only unlikely, it is impossible. First you have to get one living cell. But even today, single cell organisms don't become multi-cell organisms. There are single cell organisms and there are multi-cell organisms and nothing in between. Where is the algae or fungi that is in the process of becoming a plant or insect or animal of some other kind? Where is the inanimate matter that is in the process of combining into a complex, functioning, living cell?
Evolution is neither observable nor reproducable. Evoluton is not science. All life on earth was created after a kind that already existed elsewhere, and life only replicates after it's own kind. That is how we know what a kind is. Even small children can recognize different kinds. Matter, life and light are supernatural.
And now we come to the reason why God created all of the above.
26 ¶ And God 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. 27 So God in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
God created man is his own image. Not that God resembles a man, but that man resembles God. We are created after the God kind. To reiterate that Elohim is plural, God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:"
See: John 1:1-3, John 17:5, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:16-17, Hebrews 1:1-2, Hebrews 3:3-4
28 And God
My book to have in prison under persecution would be Job. We are taught that Yahweh directs our lives, including our sufferings. We also see that satan sends people to discourage us from our faith. Telling us we are not good enough and Yahweh is showing us His displeasure. And if we persevere and don’t submit to the outside influences but instead trust Yahweh, we will be rewarded for our faithfulness. Not always in this world but most of the time in the world to come.
Well said.