- Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth and all that exists was created by God alone through the power of His Word. All of creation testifies to His splendor and glory, and God oversees all that He has made. He governs the universe and all creation with holiness and wisdom, and God’s creation was initially created as good and to achieve moral ends.
- Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
All of humanity is created in the very image of God. Because we are created in God’s image, we are set apart from the rest of creation, as nothing else in all of creation mirrors the likeness or image of God. Humanity was the crowning point of creation, as we are special beings made in the image of God. Just as we can witness the extreme intricacy of details in all creation, God has designed us carefully with a plan, purpose, and meaning.
- Psalm 139:13-14 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Every individual has been meticulously created by a loving, eternal creator. Every individual is fearfully and wonderfully made and has a God given purpose in this life.
The foundation for a strong healthy society must begin with the acknowledgment that we are created beings living in a created world and loved by an infinite and sovereign creator. With that comes the assurance that each individual is fearfully and wonderfully made and has a purpose in life. But when society takes God out of the picture then it goes into a moral free fall, and that is where our society is right now.
The problems we have in our society can be attributed to the fact that these biblical truths are not considered in our culture. When you teach generation upon generation that we evolved from some sort of microbe and that all of creation was just a result of chance, when you do not acknowledge an all-knowing and sovereign Creator then there are no moral restraints. Ultimately you get the type of insane behavior that we witness all too frequently.