God's making and creating process

"If you believe the earth was created you can’t deny the way it was created. I understand why the scientists look at it and think it’s 15 trillion years old. God created it to look like that. Adam was one-day old and looked like a 33-year-old grown man.

"I know why they think dinosaurs were all squished over and compacted down and made petroleum jelly," says Richard Jordan. "That’s nonsense but I understand why they think that. That’s the way they would have done it if they did it.

"You know how God did it? Poof, it was there. But He did it so it was creatively and marvelously and intricately put together in order that we could reconstruct the process with the creative genius He gave us and go out and use what He put there for His glory.

"Another thing they say is man brought death into the world; by one man sin entered into the world. Well, who sinned first? Satan or man? If Satan sinned, did his sin bring death? Well, there must have been some world it brought death into that isn’t your world.

"Isaiah 45: [18] For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

"That verse says He didn’t create it the way Genesis 1:2 says it was. There’s a verse in Exodus 20 that says in six days God made all the things in heaven and in earth. You know the difference between making something and creating it?

"Creating it is, ‘Out of nothing it’s there.’ Making it is, ‘The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth.’ He took something already there and, out of it, formed something that wasn’t there before. That’s the making process. In your Bible there’s a difference.

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"Inspiration means God gave some words and it is a very exacting kind of a concept. That’s why in Deuteronomy 4, at the beginning of your Bible, and in Proverbs 30:5-6, in the middle of the Bible, and in Revelation 22:18-19, at the end of the Bible, you’re told not to diminish one word—not to add to it or take away from it.

"No matter where you read it in the Bible, it tells you, ‘Leave it alone; it’s God’s Word.’ That’s why in Amos 8:11 you read about how in the tribulation period there will come a time when there’s going to be a famine in Israel. Not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the w-o-r-d-s. Not the message but of the words found in a Book that belong to God.

"It’s always fascinated me that the Bible writers, including the Lord Jesus Christ on a number of occasions, will get a verse from Scripture and take one word out of it and hang a whole doctrine on one word. You know, that’s trusting the Book that He had. That’s not just the sense of the passage; that’s every w-o-r-d He put confidence in.

"John 10: [33] The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
[34] Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
[35] If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
[36] Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

"In verse 34, when He says, ‘Ye are gods,’ that’s Psalm 82. The whole argument revolved around verses 34-35. He said, ‘If God said to the leaders of Israel, [You’re gods], what are you getting mad at me about for saying that I’m the Son of God?!’

"His whole defense of His deity is based on one word. He trusted one word."