My Journey to Life - Daily Study Guide

Q9. Is death a part of God’s creative process?

Picture: Q9. Is death a part of God’s creative process? JTLD 101.1

Though many Christians believe in theistic evolution, evolutionary creationism or God-guided evolution, the Bible says that death entered our world through sin, Romans 5:12. The entrance of sin into Planet Earth is described in Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and subsequently suffered sin’s penalty—death. Today, instead of the clear biblical teaching that death is a result of humanity’s sin, revisionists are presenting death as a means through which God made humanity! But the theory that God creates through means of suffering, violence, catastrophe, and death is another effort of Satan to misrepresent the loving character of God. The God who notes the falling of a sparrow did not create through means of predation over millions of years! JTLD 101.2

Revelation 14:7 gives us a compelling reason to worship God: He is Creator of heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water. Notice the parallels between the language of the message of the first angel and the language of the fourth commandment. God is reminding the neo-Darwinian world that the seventh-day Sabbath, the final judgment message, and a recent divine creation are inextricably linked. JTLD 101.3

• Bible Discovery: Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:9; John 1:1-3, 10; Acts 17:26; Romans 1:20; 6:23; 1 Timothy 2:13; Revelation 14:7
• Further Reading: Ellen G. White, Education, p. 130.3, 5