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BB1.3 - In the beginning God created everything and it was very good. (Genesis 1).
Posted by thePLAN diePLAN on January 28, 2017 at 6:15 AM
In the beginning God created everything and it was very good. (Genesis 1).
Through the course of centuries, many biblical passages were questioned. So are the plagues in Egypt, the journey to the Promised Land and God's miracles and the protection of and care for his people in the Old Testament dismissed as myths. Everything that God did in Genesis 1 as the Creator, are seen as acts of nature and not as acts of God. Likewise, the New Testament also had to suffer from statements of sceptics. Jesus' birth, his miracles, resurrection and ascension is largely under suspicion. And, as we hear, as more and more people escape from the last spasms of ancient and medieval religions, we will find in the next few decades that the biblical claims about all of this will be regarded as – untrustworthy and untrue.
However, it is doubtful whether there was any exegesis that was discussed and questioned more through the ages as the Story of the Creation as stated in Genesis 1. And now we at thePLAN dare to base one of our most important theological building blocks on what is stated in Genesis 1? Might it be a gamble to do just that?
We at thePLAN believe that it is important for believers individually and collectively (as a church) to understand something about God's purpose (Plan) with His creation. Although we still have an incomplete understanding of this Plan, God has in his supreme wisdom revealed enough of His plan to us so that we can find meaning and purpose in our lives – to live focused and with passion. But, in order for that to happen, we must understand something of the larger scene or picture - the so-called “bigger picture”. Our experience is that almost all Christians believe that God has a plan and that things just do not happen randomly. Our experience is unfortunately also that relatively few believers make sense of God’s Plan and can express it in a meaningful and understandable manner. No wonder then that so many unmotivated Christians are shuffling and dragging themselves through life.
We believe it is essential to understand something of God’s Plan, for us to comprehend our role in the great cosmic drama and to live our part in it. To help us in this, we have identified a number of theological or Scriptural Building Blocks.
One of which is that God created everything in the BEGINNING and it was VERY GOOD (Gen. 1:31).
This blog contribution is not intended to give the century-old, dusty creation-debate a new life. I am just challenging you to contemplate on this building block and to consider the meaning and implications of it. Prayerfully meditate on this Biblical statement. To consider the essence thereof. To consider the implications of the creation and to ponder over the implications if God was not involved in the creation. I want to try and stimulate you to ponder about this truth - to contemplate about God. Think about what we know, but even about what we do not know - because God has not revealed all to us.
If you reflect on Genesis 1 you will confront yourself probably (again?) with the mystery of the origin of evil - of sin. Perhaps you will wrestle with the findings and generally accepted knowledge of science. Perhaps the Big Bang theory or evolution will pop up in your mind. Perhaps the creational order or who the other people were that the Bible refers to in the story of Cain.
Even if we only know in part and even if we tacitly acknowledge many times that we do not know, this building block of thePLAN from Gen. 1:31 stresses a few immutable truths:
• God created. The Creation is not the result of some spontaneous chemical reaction.
• God's creation was very good. God did not create a blundering failure, but a creation and creatures that should reflect his honour and glory.
If we doubt the truth of this building block, then we doubt deeply about who God is.
In die begin het God alles geskep en dit was baie goed (Gen. 1).
Deur die verloop van eeue is baie Bybelse uitsprake al bevraagteken. So is die plae in Egipte, die trek na die Beloofde Land en God se wonderwerke, beskerming en versorging van sy mense in die Ou Testament afgemaak as fabels. Eweneens loop die Nuwe Testament ook deur onder uitsprake van skeptici. Jesus se geboorte, sy wonderwerke, opstanding en hemelvaart is grootliks onder verdenking. En, so hoor ons, soos wat meer en meer mense ontsnap uit die laaste spasmas van antieke en Middeleeuse gelowe, so sal ons binne die volgende paar dekades ook die Bybelse aansprake sien vir wat dit werklik is – ongeloofwaardig.
Maar, dit is te betwyfel of daar deur die eeue enige Skrifuitspraak is wat meer bespreek en bevraagteken was en is, as die skeppingsverhaal in Genesis 1. En nou waag ons dit by DiePLAN om een van ons belangrikste teologiese boublokke te baseer op Genesis 1? Klink dit nie dalk na ŉ waagstuk nie?
By DiePLAN glo ons dat dit belangrik is dat gelowiges individueel en kollektief (as kerk) iets moet verstaan van God se bedoeling (Plan) met sy skepping. Alhoewel ons steeds ŉ gebrekkige insig hierin het, het God tog in sy alwysheid genoeg van sy Plan aan ons geopenbaar sodat ons sin en betekenis kan vind in ons bestaan - met fokus en passie kan lewe. Maar, dan moet ons iets van die groter toneel of prentjie verstaan. Die sogenaamde big picture. Ons ervaring is dat gelowiges byna deurgaans glo dat God wel ŉ plan het en dat dinge nie sommer net lukraak gebeur nie. Ons ervaring is ongelukkig ook dat relatief min gelowiges God se Plan sinvol en verstaanbaar kan verwoord. Geen wonder dat so baie Christene dan byna sleepvoetend deur die lewe voortslof nie.
Om iets van God se Plan te verstaan is dus, na ons mening, noodsaaklik om ons rol in die groot kosmiese drama te kan verstaan en uit te leef. Om ons hierin te help het ons ŉ aantal teologiese of Skrifgefundeerde boublokke geïdentifiseer. Een hiervan is dat God ALLES in die BEGIN geskep het en dat dit BAIE GOED was (Gen. 1:31).
Hierdie blogbydrae het nie ten doel om die eeu-oue, stofgetrapte skeppingsdebat nuwe lewe te gee nie. Ek wil jou net uitdaag om hierdie Skrifuitspraak of boublok te bedink. Dit opnuut, goed te bedink. Die essensie daarvan te bedink. Die implikasies daarvan te bedink. Die implikasies indien dit nie so was nie te bedink. Ek wil jou probeer stimuleer om jou oor hierdie waarheid te verwonder – jou oor God te verwonder. Verwonder jou oor dit wat ons weet, maar selfs ook oor dit wat ons nie weet nie – omdat God nie aan ons geopenbaar het nie.
As jy oor Genesis 1 reflekteer gaan jy jouself waarskynlik (weer?) konfronteer met die geheimenis oor die oorsprong van kwaad – van sonde. Dalk gaan jy stoei met uitsprake en algemeen-aanvaarde kennis van die wetenskap. Miskien die oerknal, of ewolusie. Dalk met die skeppingsvolgorde of wie die ander mense was waarna die Bybel verwys in die verhaal van Kain.
Al verstaan ons ten dele en al moet ons stilswyend baie keer erken dat ons nie weet nie, beklemtoon hierdie boublok van DiePLAN uit Gen. 1:31 ŉ paar onveranderlike waarhede:
•	God het geskep. Die skepping is nie die resultaat van een of ander spontane chemiese reaksie nie.
•	God se skepping was baie goed. God het nie ŉ flatervolle mislukking geskep nie, maar ŉ skepping met skepsels wat sy eer en glorie moes reflekteer.
Indien ons twyfel aan die waarheid van hierdie boublok, dan twyfel ons ten diepste oor wie God is.