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    Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree
    Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree
    Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree
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    Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree

    By Akin Aguda

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    Creation is a very fascinating yet controversial story occupying a central role in the conflict between faith and science. Faith based teachings emphasize a six day work outlined in Genesis chapter 1 while science argues that the big bang happened billions of years ago. This book is primarily written to Christians and adopts a commentary style approach in an attempt to separate Biblical fact from Christian tradition. It classifies Genesis 1 into two sequential events, creation and restoration, separated by an unspecified period of time. While the Bible does not give the exact age of the earth, this book argues that it is much older than has been traditionally accepted by the Church. It follows a verse-by-verse analysis of the Genesis account and examines why the creation story was written and how it fits into the general theme of the Bible. It offers the authors thoughts on evolution and discusses the purpose of man and why we are placed here on earth. By comparing the Old and the New Testaments, the author emphasizes that the plan of God for creation has never changed. Rather, it is more clearly revealed in the life of Christ our perfect example. Throughout the discussions, this book encourages the believer to stand firm in faith that we may be all we were born to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkin Aguda
    Release dateAug 6, 2013
    ISBN9781301865925
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      Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree - Akin Aguda

      Creation Or Restoration? When Faith And Science Agree

      Akin H. Aguda

      Copyright 2013 Akin H. Aguda

      All scripture quotations are from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Copyright 1979,1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc Publishers. Used with permission.

      Cover image (ID: PIA03033) Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Used with permission

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Part 1: Setting the Agenda

      The Beginning

      Authorship

      Purpose

      A thought on Evolution Biology

      Part 2: Undo That which Was Done

      First Day

      Why Start With Light?

      Darkness Must Not Prevail

      Second Day

      A Linen Draped Highway

      Third Day

      Life Returns

      Supply Of Resources

      He's Always A Step Ahead Of Us

      Part 3: Bringing Out the Decor

      Fourth Day

      Signs For Eternity

      Restoration Needs Time

      Fifth Day

      An Open Heaven

      Sixth Day

      Earthly Residents

      Made In His Image

      About Images

      Perks Of The God Image

      Why In His Image?

      Male And Female?

      The First Commission

      To Be Fruitful

      To Multiply

      To Replenish The Earth

      To Subdue It

      Seventh day

      Finished

      Rested

      Why The Sabbath?

      Part 4: The New Is Old

      The New Reveals The Old

      Restoration Begins With Judgment

      Immersion At Jordan

      The Commission Renewed

      The Old Versus The New Restoration

      One Covenant, One Nation, All Families

      One Covenant

      A Great Nation

      All Families

      A Final Word

      About the Author

      To Aderonke, for a new beginning.

      Acknowledgement

      My utmost gratitude goes to my siblings Soji, Yemisi, and Dupe for their patience and longsuffering over the years. I owe a debt of gratitude to my mother, for all her prayers.

      My appreciation goes to Pastor Greg Baker (Affordable Christian Editing) for critically proofreading and editing this book, to Dr. Simon Ayo-Yila and Pastor Osuntoye Osungbesan for fact checking the contents. You all will share in the eternal rewards of this work.

      Introduction

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      In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth - Genesis 1:1.

      The creation story is one of the greatest stories of the Bible and arguably one of the most controversial. It is the one story that atheists use to argue against the existence of God while Scientists for years have used the evolution theory as a counter argument against the Genesis 1 account of creation. These both view the average Christian as ignorant, or at best, a simpleton mislead by a manipulative clergy.

      One of the biggest disagreements arises from conflicts in the time line, with science putting the age of the earth and dinosaur fossils at millions of years, while traditional biblical interpretations estimate life at about four millennia.

      Without a doubt God made heaven and earth, no true believer would think otherwise for it is a recurring theme throughout the Bible. What we need to consider is how the prophets of old and the early apostles viewed creation. Could they possibly have seen more in the story than we presently acknowledge? Is it possible that the timeline of events is really longer than we currently estimate? Or perhaps the first chapter of Genesis is describing multiple events over different periods of time? How does the creation story fit into the whole theme of the Bible? Why is it right at the beginning of the Scriptures? Is it there purely for academic purposes or like the rest of Scripture to help us learn whom we are and what we need to do? These are questions that we may not yet have considered, but they are essential to answer in order to respond to those who say there is no God.

      The question I therefore asked myself was this: are we missing something in the creation story? Or why is there so much conflict between biblical and scientific data? What does the Bible really say (or not say) about creation?

      This short commentary is written in an attempt to answer these questions. The discussions contained will challenge some of our traditional knowledge of creation and hopefully increase our understanding of Genesis 1. It attempts to place the creation story in the context of the general theme of the Bible. I implore you to prayerfully read through once (or more), testing every word with Scriptures as the Bereans did (Acts 17:11).

      Part 1: Setting the Agenda

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      The secrets of the heart, great men have sought,

      From mountains to valleys, his search all but vain.

      The secret he seeks can none attain,

      But that freely given by the Lord of the heart.

      The Beginning

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      Every book in history has an author, a target audience, and an attainable objective within the scope of the book. A great author has a specific message he hopes to pass along, a goal he keeps the focus on, regardless of the storyline he is recounting. He cannot write everything he sees or knows, but writes specific events as he wants the audience to see it—through his eyes. Only those things he considers important get prominence. Whenever we pick up a bestseller to read, we read the author’s prioritization of events as they unfold before us. The Bible is no different. It has a primary author with a specific goal and a particular targeted audience.

      So, what is the Bible? Why was it written? Who wrote it and to whom?

      Authorship

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      The Bible is a collection of books. It has different writings that cover different topics over a period of about 2,000 years. Though men like us inked the letters in the book, we know that their inspiration came from the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:21, 2 Timothy 3:16). A review of the book headings often gives the names of these men, the people they were originally writing to, or a description of the book content itself. Most of the books further give an introductory sentence or paragraph to explain the reason and objective of the book. In some, the last sentences give a conclusion as well.

      Having this basic information at hand, we can now note that the primary author of the Bible, according to 2 Timothy 3:16, is God. The questions we now need to ask ourselves are: why did He have the book written? Who is the intended audience? And what is the expected response?

      In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. – Genesis 1:1-2

      Purpose

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      The first chapter of Genesis opens with the phrase, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, as the necessary introduction to the book. It is a book discussing the relationship between heaven and earth from God’s point of view.

      The word for God used here is "Elohim," a plural form implying more than one person. This gives credit to the doctrine of the Trinity, consisting of Father, Son (Word) and Holy Ghost, three yet one (1 John 5:7). Most non-Christians are baffled with this concept. The thought of three persons in one is mind-boggling. The closest analogy I know is one I heard from a preacher years ago that describes the role of the Father, Word and Spirit. In his example, he likened the sun in the sky to the Father, the light it gives to the Word, and the heat we feel to the Holy Ghost. Without the visible celestial body we see in the sky, the light that it gives or the heat that it radiates, it ceases to be the sun that we know. A sun without light and heat is a moon. So also, the Father without the Word or the Spirit is not the same—all three are one. Just as there is only one sun in our solar system providing light and warmth, we have only one God providing life and hope.

      This three-yet-one God is the primary author of the Bible, and we see the introduction of His work in the very first verse. He created the heaven and the earth. Again, to best understand this verse, we should look at the original text in Hebrew. The word for heaven is "Shaw-meh," which is a dual word signifying two forms of heaven: firstly the visible arc in the sky with clouds and then the higher component populated by celestial bodies like the moon, stars, and asteroids. God made them all, as we shall see later in the book. This is the starting point of the biblical stories, the heaven and the earth.

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