Whodunit?

Whodunit?

Bible: Genesis 1:1-27

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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness” (V.26).

Did you know the word “whodunit” is actually in the dictionary? It means “crime fiction or a detective story”. One of the most important whodunits of all time is: Who made the world? Some people wish the Bible said, “In the beginning, God wasn’t needed.” To them, they don’t like to think that, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (GENESIS 1:1), or that He made us in His own “image” (V.26). If those things are true, then we are responsible to God. This idea is uncomfortable for many people who still don’t know Jesus for themselves. Instead, many want to believe that, after an explosion of energy and matter, somehow our amazing world, filled with life, just happened. Then, single-celled organisms developed over millions of years into the incredible creatures we see today. No need for God, they say. It all happened on its own. There’s no plan. No design. No intention. No big picture. It all works by chance. What we make of the words “In the beginning God” is at the centre of it all. We either believe the Bible—and everything it says—or we believe that our meaningless lives are the accidental result of a random chain of events. In the beginning. Was it God? Or was it chance? Our answer to this whodunit helps show whether or not we really believe in the awesome God of creation.

ONLY GOD COULD CREATE THE WORLD
OUT OF NOTHING.

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