Believing What God Has Said-Part 2

Believing What God Has Said-Part 2  

       Yesterday we started a discussion about believing the Genesis record.  I believe that the Genesis record should be trusted to mean exactly what it states.  That belief includes a real six day creation.  It takes  blind faith to believe that the created plant life lived a thousand, or perhaps a million years without sunlight.  

       Again, one may ask, “Why does a musician care whether creation took six days, six thousand or six million years?”  A Christian musician cares because of the fact that if one cannot trust the Genesis record, he or she will find it hard to trust the remaining Scriptures to be accurate.  If the Bible is not accurate in what it says then a Christian musician’s truth basis fails. 

       It is no wonder that so many Christian musicians have trouble trusting what the Bible says about musicing unto God.  Why should a musician trust what the Bible says about music if he or she cannot trust the Genesis record to be accurate.  Remember that St. John 1:1 states,  under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that, “In the beginning  was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  This means that one cannot separate God from what He says.  Before creation i.e. the Genesis record Jesus was with God and was God.  Therefore, we can trust every word about the creation of the world.  

       At this point you are probably wondering, “What is the devotional thought for the day?”  The devotional thought is that “direction determines destiny”.  When a Christian musicians goes down the philosophical path that “One cannot trust what is written in the Genesis record then there is no stopping place and the result is that one believes that the Bible is not always accurate.  With such a false philosophical basis, one erroneously concludes that the creation account is not literal and therefore not to be trusted.  

       If we are going to make it into the City of God, we are going to need the comfort, guidance, and hope  of God’s inspired Word.  If we cannot trust His Word to be accurate,  then we cannot trust what God has said to us.  If one believes that part of it is accurate and other parts are not accurate, then just what part or parts can we trust?