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SOME PEOPLE question the idea that there is a Supreme Being called God who created the world and everything in it.
They speak as if they have superior knowledge about the origin of the natural things we see around.
But does anyone know how the oceans, lakes, rivers, vegetation, animals, sun, moon and all other natural things both living and non-living came into being?
Which member of the human races, namely, the Negroid, Mongolian or Caucasian can convincingly explain how man came to live on the earth?
Only the Bible, the Book of books which is the revelation of God boldly tells us who man is and how he, animals and other things were created as recorded in the book of Genesis.
In His words to Job, God asked, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements – surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sank, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38: 4- 7, ESV)?
God’s questions to Job are questions to scientists and other people who question the fact that God is the creator of the universe. Can any scientist or anyone answer the questions?
We see from the passage of Scripture above that the world existed before man was made. This is why man cannot narrate pre-creation events except by divine revelation.
It is for this reason an unregenerate man cannot grasp the biblical message of creation. Unless God reveals to man how the world and everything in it were made, man will be kept in the dark.
Man, no matter his level of education and exposure, is defective in knowledge. He is not all-knowing; he knows but little compared to God his Creator who lives in eternity and knows all things.
Yet, with his little knowledge which he struggles to acquire in many years, man challenges and doubts that God made him. But man cannot deny that God made him as he knows it instinctively.
“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 things that have been made. So they are without excuse” (Romans1: 19- 20, ESV).
By James Quansah
