Monday, March 2, 2020

Memory Master Competition


According to the Bible, the story of the world is the story of the creation, fall, and redemption of mankind.

Genesis 1:1 tells us, “God created the heavens and the earth.” With only his words, God sculpted earth, space, time, and light on the first day.  On day two, he created the atmosphere with its parts—troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.  On the third day of creation, God made the dry land, and plants.  On the fourth day, God fashioned a myriad of stars, including our sun, and moon, with its phases—new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, and full. God also crafted some other bodies in our solar systemasteroids, meteoroids, meteorites, and comets. God formed the fish, sea creatures, and birds on the day five.  And on the sixth day of creation, God fashioned land animals, and more importantly Adam, and Eve were created in God’s image.

Unfortunately, mankind insolently rejected their creator and scornfully contrived gods of their own imaginations.  Some of these were the Greek and Roman gods—Zeus, Jupiter, Hera, Juno, Ares, Mars, Aphrodite, Venus, Hermes, Mercury, Athena, Minerva, Poseidon, and Neptune. In rebellion, they went so far as to brazenly name all of the planets, except for our beautiful planet, Earth, after these gods—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Overtime some people recognized the error in their beliefs. In the West, increased interest in spiritual things paved the way for a new age and prominent men capably used their talents to display God’s glory. During this Renaissance Period from 1350 to 1600, Leonardo da Vinci was a famous inventor, Shakespeare was a famous playwright, Michelangelo was a famous artist, and Copernicus was a famous scientist who earnestly believed that God was creator. Science flourished and in the early 1700’s Newton made grand discoveries in Physics. His first law of motion states that an object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to continue moving in a straight line at constant speed unless an outside force acts upon it. Newton’s second law of motion states that force equals mass times acceleration. Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton astutely affirmed, “The true God is a living, intelligent and powerful Being.” Science and technology continued to advance and in 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon. U.S. space missions tenaciously continued with the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle missions.

Through scientific advancements, the truth proclaimed in Psalm 19:1 is evidenced.  Truly, “The heavens declare the glory of God: the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” But mankind’s greatest privilege is knowing and making known the God who came to redeem us!

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