BIG BANG AND DIVINE CREATION?

[image error]PMW 2018-030 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.

Many Christians accept the Big Bang model of creation, believing that the sudden creation of the universe comports with the Genesis account of creation. But Big Bang cosmology fails to match up with the biblical view of the origins of the universe. In this brief notice, I will quickly point out four major problems facing the Big Bang model, as viewed from a biblical standpoint.

1. What does the Big Bang entail?

A sudden beginning of the universe, which sounds much like the Gen. 1:1. Unfortunately though, the Big Bang model does not end there. According to this secular viewpoint, the Big Bang is followed by an enormously long period wherein we have the development of stars, then galaxies. This commits the Christian to an unbiblical long ages for creation. The creation account clearly presents a very short, powerful creating of the universe by God in six days.

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As It Is Written: The Genesis Account Literal or Literary?

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Presents the exegetical evidence for Six-day Creation and against the Framework Hypothesis.

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2. To what does the Big Bang model commit us?

In the Big Bang model, the sun and stars are created before the earth, despite Gen. 1:14ff which declares that the earth was created first. The careful, deliberate enumeration of the days of creation in Genesis 1 absolutely forbids the secular order of events, which effectively place stars as creating agents rather than God.

3. Who does the Big Bang contradict?[image error]

The Big Bang viewpoint counters Christ’s teaching that man was created “from the beginning,” not billions of years later (Mark 10:6). A cosmology that contradicts Christ cannot be endorsed by a Christian whose worldview and eternal destiny depend on Christ being the inerrant, authoritative Son of God.

4. What is the Big Bang order of creation?

The Big Bang model necessarily involves a wrong early-history of the universe and the world. In this model the (long, slow) creation process involves chaos and destruction, even of later life arising. It requires the arising and destruction of whole species in a world “red in tooth and claw. This contradicts the original “very good” universe that came from God’s hand (Gen 1:31). It also disputes the later entry of sin as the reason for death in God’s created order (Gen. 3).

The explosion of something from nothing (the Big Bang) cannot account for the orderly universe. Neither can it account for the laws of math, logic, morality, and more. An orderly universe cannot be rooted in disorder.

Genesis and Creation (Set 1: Genesis 1).[image error]

Sermon series by Ken Gentry

An in-depth sermon series on the opening chapters of the Bible from a Six-day Creationist perspective. Offers many insights into the reason Moses wrote the Creation Account, insights little recognized by the average Christian. This is set 1, which covers Genesis 1.

See more study materials at: www.KennethGentry.com