The Meaning Of Life

For the record, I’ve always preferred the New King James Version of the Bible, but feel free to use whatever version you are more comfortable with and can understand the easiest.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

I personally believe in creation, quite obviously since Darwin came out with his “Theory of Evolution”, many people are non-believers. And I might add, Satan is fighting a losing battle with God, he is desperate to win, fighting and clawing his way to the end. He will stop at nothing to draw people away from Christ including, making some people non-believers.

God has been here since the beginning, and it is my belief that in this context, “God” is referring to the Godhead as opposed to “God the Father”. And I say that because in the next verse, “The Spirit of God” (the Holy Ghost) is mentioned. And this is one of those verses that may be hard to understand because it is quite complex, but then I think, “Is it really that important?” “Oh ye of little faith…”, somethings we don’t have to understand. And I’ve been lead to believe, and it makes perfect sense, that when man was first created, the earth was unadulterated. There were no chemicals being sprayed on our soil. The was no carbon monoxide in the air from the cars we drive. There was no smoke from bbq grills or agricultural burning or structure fires. The food the first people ate was pure, natural organic. In short, people back then were much healthier, their brains were not damaged by internal and external poisons. People could think clearer, speak clearer, understand more. The main thing I get from this verse is that God created everything from nothing.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.”

And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

God is so powerful that he can create just by speaking things into existence. The first thing he created was light. And he even named the difference between “light” and “dark”, “day” and “night”. And he is an important point. “And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. The Bible clearly states that the first day started with the evening. And as Jews observe, the day starts at sunset, in the evening, and ends at sunset the next day. The Jewish Sabbath starts in the evening, and ends the next day in the evening. This is all because we started out in darkness and then God created light, the first day. Isn’t it amazing that when we are born, we start out in darkness, then when God says it is time to be born, we end up in light? And when we are lost, we are in darkness, but when we find God, we are suddenly in the light.

6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Another verse I’ve wrestled with; “He divided the waters from the waters”? What the heck does that mean? Well, before God separated the dry lands, it can be assumed the earth was completely covered with water. So what does it mean when it says he “separated the water”? Did you know that recently, in the development of space technology, scientists have discovered what they believe is a “band of water” surrounding the out most layers of our universe? And here’s another way Satan is hard at work.

When I first read about this “ring of water”, I was so ecstatic that, to me, it was further proof of creation, then later when I wanted to save the information for further study, it had been changed. The information is still available on some theology websites (https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/cosmology/water-found-near-edge-of-observable-universe/), but the scientific sites I’ve searched have now changed the language of their findings.

9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.

This is where the water “under” the Heavens were gathered into one place, forming our planet, and God created the dry land in the midst of those waters, which he named “seas”. Then he created grass, and the plants that contain seeds so they can regenerate themselves.

And once again, the evening and the morning make up a “day”.

14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great [d]lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And not only were the sun and the moon created to provide light, but they were to help tell time. Obviously, the evening and the morning, the sun setting from one day to the next, was a day, but they eventually determined that seven days was a week, and that they could tell the difference between seasons.

Now the original Jewish calendar had all months as 30 days in length. Keep in mind, the seven days week has never changed since Creation, but the dates and months have been changed. Eventually they had to alter the calendar, sometime in the 1500’s I believe, because there were no “leap years” then, and they eventually realized their error in calculating a year, so they omitted a number of dates.

And I have to chuckle, I recently scanned through an article, just written last year, there the author comments on the seven day week, and how God rested on the seventh day, Sunday. Obviously, he had never seen a calendar before; all the one’s I’ve seen show Sunday to be the first day of the week.

Satan, you’ve a busy boy again, haven’t you?

May God bless you you all.

https://www.britannica.com/story/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switch-to-the-gregorian-calendar