Indeed, God alone is good. That is, there are two glaring things that stand out in Genesis one in the creation narrative, certainty and orderliness in the logical sequence of occurrences. It is fairly straight forward to establish the orderliness in the unfolding of events as they were outlined and laid out. We don’t need to dive into deep theology to establish this point. We also don’t have to believe that God exists to realize that the orderliness of unfolding events in the first chapter of Genesis made sense since the occurrences were systematic and methodical in their orderliness.
Moses gave this narrative as revealed to him by God, so in effect this is God’s account of his own work, and in this account. A brief look at the events in Genesis 1 flows like the following: light was created first which gave visibility to the formless, void, dark deep which the Spirit of God was watching over. This was followed by the separation of the light from the darkness, that was day one; space was introduced into the deep to separate water from water, that was day two; the separated water below underwent further separation this time, the water collected to one side that led to the creation of dry land which then led to the creation of vegetation, that was day three; the next was the sun, moon and stars for marking the seasons, that was day four; day five saw the creation of the living creatures in the sea and the land; day six saw the creation of man and the creation of more animals. In all six days of creation, the Creator, God, had no doubt about the things he desired to accomplish, neither was there any sense of hesitation about what he called into existence or what he wanted to see happen as he called or commanded them to come into being.
Now the point about certainty though cannot be taken for granted, just as we cannot assume that randomness led to a creation that resulted into definitive outcomes. That is, randomness under any circumstances still requires an initiator to initiate the generation. And even if in this account as narrated by God through his servant were to have been randomly generated, the creation occurrences still occurred as God commanded his will into being as God said it and “that’s it!” But randomness would suggest that God didn’t know exactly what he desired to occur, he just said something, and viola, something, anything, occurred. The notion will be contradicting on its own as it would be impractical for one to command his or her will and not know exactly what that turnout might be. How then can it be possible to determine success or failure of occurrences?
On the other hand, certainty guarantees definiteness and surety as in God said, “let there be light, and there was light!” Certainty is concrete and definitive while randomness suggests haphazardness and wishy washy. Certainty suggest clarity with intentions that were deliberately implemented whereas randomness is simply that, you get what you get with no assurance to guarantees any conclusive outcomes. Furthermore, even with randomness, an initiator might instigate or initiate the initial act to generate that which is random, though the clarity of what is desired might be absent. But certainty must have an originator with clear intentions and ability to express exactly what he wants, how he wants things to be or done, when he wants things done and for whatever purpose he desires such certainty.
This is what I mean, let’s say you don’t accept God’s testimony giving through his servant Moses passed on to his people in Israel. Let’s say you have your own preferred narrative of the creation story, or let’s say you are challenged by the biblical testimony on the creation story, but you are also not fully convinced that scientific analysis fully help you address the creation question, now what are you left with? Whatever the case, be it logical deductions which is walked through by faith anyway, or blind faith which is processed to some logical conclusion, intellectual honesty should allow the honest broker to weigh not only feasibility and chances of occurrence of one’s favored position, but the ability and the capacity that such a position can actually occur and must address the certainty of such occurrence and not just the chance of possible occurrence. For, it must be that the certainty of occurrence in reality must always be rated at a one in probability or one hundred percent.
But how can anyone be certain about anything when one can’t use science to accomplish that, we certainly can’t leave that to faith, can we? Sure, for one who possesses perfection in knowledge can and will have certainty, “but as we all know, no man is perfect in knowledge,” one might say. However, there is a phrase that occurs at least six times in the opening chapter of Genesis, and its occurrence is at the conclusion of each creation day. The phrase is "... and it was so." This phrase occurs from the second day onward in Genesis1:7, and the following verses – 9, 11, 15, 24, 30 of Genesis 1. The reason we don’t see it in the first creation event has a simple explanation as God commanded light to occur, “… and there was light,” just as God commanded and willed it. Or in a literal sense, God commanded light to come into existence and there it was.
Hence, when the translators translated God’s willed implementation during his creation with the phrase “and it was so,” they were relating to the reader in no uncertain terms that there was no uncertainty whatsoever in what God set out to do. That is, God’s commanded will was manifested exactly as he would have it be. God’s word came into life exactly how and what God desired it and for what purpose he desired it. For as God spoke the word, it was firmly established that it was going to be so and thus was established. That is, God knew exactly what he wanted, what he desired to happen and that was exactly what happened. God’s commanded will yielded the authentic value and measure of exactly what God desired to come into being.
Thus, from just the opening chapter of the opening book of the bible and a brief analysis, we do see a logically ordered creation account that happen to take place the very exact manner in which God, the Creator, desired. Furthermore, from this account, it is unimaginable not to see that God was intentionally executing his purpose in a carefully planned manner. I therefore will submit that God had always had a plan and creation was only the beginning of that plan which he implemented successfully through to the cross of Calvary and he continues his implementation even to its completion to which the scriptures designate our days as the last days.
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