Some Important Bible Verses Related to Creation
From NIV translation
The Bible doesn’t try to prove the existence of God, as His existence should be obvious to everyone (see Psalms 19:1-4 and Romans 1:20).
Man is a separate creation from the animals, man is NOT an animal. We share many of the same design elements because both man and animals must live in the same environment, and we share biochemistry because man eats plants and animals for energy (although man and all the animals were originally created to be vegetarians – see Genesis 1:29-30, after the flood man was given permission by God to eat meat – see Genesis 9:3)
The mandate from God for scientific study – man could only subdue and rule over the creation by studying it.
Man and all the animals were originally created to be vegetarians. But God, knowing that man would sin, endowed many animals with latent features that would later allow them to be meat-eaters.
The original creation was perfect. How could God call the finished creation “very good” if it was produced through millions of years of death, “survival of the fittest”, and extinction? 1 Corinthians 15:26 says: The last enemy to be destroyed is death. This clearly indicates that death was not part of God’s very good creation.
The life of God was infused into man only one time in history, and that life has been passed from generation to generation all the way down to you and me!
At the time of the sin of Adam and Eve, the first biblical reference to a future savior.
The Fall of Man not only introduced death, God also cursed the creation itself allowing for physical calamities to take place (e.g. tornadoes, floods, etc.). This was a removal of God’s complete sustaining power so decay would begin to take place (Adam and Eve did not die immediately). See Deuteronomy 8:4. Life spans would gradually be shortened. See also Romans 5:12 and 8:22.
The Bible describes the great flood as an actual historical event.
After the flood man (and the animals) were given permission by God to eat meat.
If the great flood was just a local flood, as some maintain, then God has broken this promise many times! Genesis 7:19-23 certainly portrays a global flood: They [the waters] rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
The Bible explains why there are different languages.
During the Israelites wanderings in the desert prior to their entry into the Promised Land, God supernaturally preserved their clothing and their ability to do much walking. This is a hint of what life would have been like in the Garden of Eden, before God removed some of His sustaining power over the creation due to the Fall of Man.
The Bible describes what appears to be a large dinosaur, having a tail like a cedar tree and being the most impressive animal God made. It shows that Job knew of dinosaurs and that they lived at the same time as mankind, not 65 millions years prior to man. Dinosaurs were created on day six along with the other animals.
A modern scientific insight – Jonah (860 B.C.) describes that there are mountains under the ocean.
Another modern scientific insight – ocean currents.
The creation clearly shows that God must exist! See also Romans 1:20.
More modern scientific insights – that the earth is a sphere suspended in space; and that the universe has been “stretched out” (the universe is expanding).
Jesus stated that people were created at “the beginning,” not billions of years after the formation of the earth.
The coming of Jesus to be our savior is the pivotal point of all history!
Another modern scientific insight, describing the “Second Law of Thermodynamics” (the universal principle that everything is “mixing together” and decaying, and that the universe would eventually die a “heat death” (but God will end history long before that of course).
What is the “strong nuclear force”? It is the power of God Himself that holds the universe together!
The creation clearly shows that God must exist! See also Psalms 19:1-4.
Jesus Christ will come again to judge all people.
Clearly teaches that death is the result of sin – Adam’s sin. Even though it was Eve that got Adam to eat the forbidden fruit, God had put Adam in charge of the Garden of Eden and so it was Adam that is held accountable.
Refers back to Genesis 3:17-18, where God cursed the creation itself, introducing decay into the perfect world.
The present universe will one day be destroyed by intense fire – God will have released all of his sustaining power.
There will be a new heaven and a new earth that will be very good again.
Everything will be as it once was in the original creation.