The Creator Stopped

Completion
With repetition and diversity of terms Genesis 1:31-2:2 underscores the completion of the Creator's special, supernatural quick work. Ended. Rested. Finished. An infinitely powerful God does not need to rest because His energy was depleted and had to be restored. It means that God changed gears —His ways now conserve what He made. We call His present methods 'Natural' because we can now predict His patterns and laws. Those who search present processes for the powers that caused origins are in a futile search. Natural forces will never explain supernatural effects. Only a rebellious reader could twist the clear meaning of these important verses.

Creation Reveals God's Perfectness & Righteousness
"And God saw that it was good." occurs 7 times in the first chapter of Genesis. (The number 7 signifies completion and perfection throughout the Bible) After 7 earth-rotations the perfect Creator had perfected His workmanship that would stand as the greatest revelation of His nature. He couldn't create any other way and communicate His holy, righteous nature. When the Creator finished there was no imperfection, no sin, no death, no disease. Man had everlasting life.

Creation is the Greatest Revelation of God's Power
The Creator's every means, measure and method was chosen to reveal unambiguously the power and nature of the Worker. Romans 1:18-20 states that these actions were done so that no one has any excuse for not knowing that an all-powerful, instant working Creator was the Cause. This should motivate every person to inquire, 'Who would do something like that?'

Final Evaluation
God's own evaluation: "everything was very good," after He stopped His special work, meant that His perfect achievement revealed a perfect God. Nothing evil, like the "enemy" death, was present. This cessation and evaluation at the end of creation are critical to the Gospel, our God-concept and to every other major Bible doctrine.

God Did Not Create Evil
Important Barrier
Evil entered after creation finished. God's curse followed man's sin. God's flood judgment, like His coming judgment, are not acts of creation, but acts of deliberate destruction from a righteous God who must punish sin.

A Christian Nonnegotiable Belief
Those who have no stake in the spiritual significance of Creation events and times can embrace the latest speculations and overstated proofs of eager scientists —little damage done. But those who have entrusted their destiny to Scripture cannot afford to be so trendy. For them a higher authority than the best human scientists must be heard and trusted. Claims that challenge clear Bible statements must be tested for doctrinal damage.

Unfortunately those who admire and honor academic pursuits are promised blindness if they debase Scripture below their human 'experts.' Scripture requires us to believe first in order to understand —rebels demand to understand first in order to choose whether to believe. For those who exercise faith, some pivotal anchor truths, such is the 'End of Creation,' form trustworthy detectors of deceit.

None of the diverse "creation views" offers a logical scope and sequence of events like that of the Bible. The end of creation, so clearly taught in Scripture fits into none of them.

If we downplay this important change in God's ways, as compromise views do, we, perhaps unknowingly, include evil and its consequences in the Creator's work. To allow death and extinction of innocent animals to occur anytime before Adam sinned is to deny the critical doctrine of original sin vital to the Gospel. (See more in The Gospel Compromise)

2 Peter. 3 identifies those in the last days who say, "All things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation" as mockers and says they are "willingly ignorant " of the Genesis creation and flood. They claim that slow, tranquil processes continue creating today.

Mockers In the secular worldview things are improving and advancing today and new life-kinds continue to form.