Asking respectful questions about the Bible is not a sign of rebellion or indication of disbelief, but can be a means of more fully pursuing the God who is revealed in the Bible.
It is from this perspective that I’ve been pondering the creation account and asking some questions.
My final query is:
Question 6: People were not made until midway through the sixth day, so there were no eyewitnesses to most of God’s creative efforts.
How then could details that no one saw have been known, passed down from one generation to the next, and then recorded in the Bible?
The solution is that God would have had to tell his creation of how they came to be.
Just as a parent leaves out details when a young child asks “Where do babies come from?” so, too, God must have left out details when he explained our origins to us. Still, I want to know more.
However, Moses puts my inquiring mind into perspective, confirming that God has kept some things from us:
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever.”
God is, in many ways, a mystery—and that is one of the things that draws me to him.
[Read through the Bible with us this year. Today’s reading is Deuteronomy 28-30, and today’s post is on Deuteronomy 29:29.]
Peter DeHaan writes about biblical Christianity to confront status quo religion and live a life that matters. He seeks a fresh approach to following Jesus through the lens of Scripture, without the baggage of made-up traditions and meaningless practices.
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