Biblical Creation Is Foundational To The Absolute Deity Of Jesus Christ

G. Thomas Sharp • July 31, 2018

I am repeatedly asked why I founded Creation Truth Foundation, and more importantly, why Biblical Creation is so foundational to the absolute deity of Jesus Christ and all Biblical truth? Answers to these two concerns are significant, and they are interconnected. I will only succinctly respond to the second of these inquiries, because it is, by far, the most important.

Because of the gravity associated with Biblical creation, a principal Biblical truth, a brief presentation here is in order (regular readers of this newsletter will recognize the frequency with which I defend this subject, because it is the primary truth upon which all other Biblical truth rests).

Jesus constantly alluded to this reality during His redemptive sojourn here on earth; and none of His treatments were more significant than His response to the Pharisees in Matthew 19:4-5 and Mark 10:6-8. Because Talmudic interference was continually impinging upon the clarity of the Old Testament concerning the coming Messiah, Jesus was continuously correcting the misunderstanding and misapplication of the Pharisees concerning His Deity and earthly mission.

In these passages, Christ is pinpointing the eternal consequence and import of man’s origin taking place “ from the beginning of the creation ,” and not millions of years after the creative process had begun. For a literal Bible believer, the creation of man and woman took place no more than six days (24-hour days) after the voice of God called into existence the space, mass, time continuum in Genesis 1:1, and nothing in Scripture is clearer than Christ’s Messianic intent …“ He came to save His people from their sins. ” (Matthew 1:21)

The point for this article is that God created man and woman (Adam and Eve) at the beginning of the creation. Man did not develop from some unknown primitive ancestor or some missing link between modern apes and humans. Man has always been man, and his origin was divinely commenced at the decreeing of God’s Word: “ By the Word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth…He spoke, and it was done… ” (Psalms 33:6-9)

Neither is our salvation a spur of the moment activity! It occupied the Creator’s ultimate attention! The Apostle Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:4 that we were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world, and I admit that this is a great mystery. But we are talking about the great Creator God! And Paul tells us that God is unchangeable, and His sovereignty is unambiguously certain! Note his comments in Romans 9:17-24, “For the scripture said to Pharaoh, ‘ For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you … So then God has mercy on whom He has mercy, and He hardens whom He desires … does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use … And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory … whom He called not from among the Jews only, but from the Gentiles. ’ …” (NKJV) So it is, like it or not, the great Creator God does exactly what He has planned to do, and before time started He planned to create man in His own image, and then in time to save all them He called! (Isaiah 46:9-11)

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