Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 7516 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Creation or The Big Bang? - Wisdom Wednesday


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. Today is Day 756 of our Trek, and it is Wisdom Wednesday.  We continue this Wednesday to explore our trek of interpreting life through a Biblical Worldview.  As a Christ follower, it is important to view all situations and events in life through the lenses of the Bible. That is a view of the world that is aligned with what the Bible teaches us. We are exploring current issues that impact our world and society and comparing them through the lens of the Bible, instead of the lens of our society, culture, modern media, or social media. I do not desire to tell you what to think, but teach you how to think, so that you may be able to filter current issues and events through your Biblical Worldview.  I may explore opposing views and challenge you to think.  You may not always agree with my view, and that is ok, and I am open to any comments that you may have on the subjects that we explore.

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  A Biblical Worldview, at its core, is grounded in the fact that the Bible is God’s Word and contains all truth that God chose to reveal to us. Even with that understanding, there are many interpretations of parts of the Bible, and even the most learned Bible scholars will disagree.  As finite humans living within the constraints of time and space, it is difficult for us to comprehend the mind of God. This gap was partially bridge when God came to earth as Jesus Christ, but not completely.  As the Apostle Paul wrote in, 1 Corinthians 13:12   Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

So today we will start at the very beginning and analyze Genesis 1:1, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Creation or The Big Bang?
This is quite a complex issue to deal with, so we may extend it over multiple episodes. Realize that there is no way to categorically prove that Genesis 1:1 is true or untrue.  No human was present to verify this. All of what we consider truth in God’s Word must be recognized and believed by faith.  As you look at the conflict between creation vs. evolution those who believe evolution say that they have scientific facts to prove it. Evolution is strictly a theory, as is creationism.  One basis for science is that it has to be verified and proven by in-person observation.  No one living today, nor any written narrative can prove evolution or creation.  So an evolutionist argument must also be recognized and believed by faith.

In order to be transparent with you, throughout my life, I have maintained, by faith, a young earth view.  I have to admit though, the more I study God’s Word, the universe, and all of creation from my limited perspective, the more I realize that a young earth theory cannot be proven.  If somehow there was a way to prove that the earth, and indeed the entire universe, was millions or billions of years old, would that negate the truth of Genesis 1:1?  Absolutely Not!  Again by faith, with no doubt in my mind that, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  Although I cannot scientifically prove this verse, within the scope of my Biblical Worldview this is the very bedrock and foundation of my life. There are so many weak areas within the camp of those who believe that the universe was some sort of happenstance and earth was the result of some sort of random cosmic explosion.  The fallacy of this argument is,