Summary Belief: God as Creator

These are the questions I was given to answer.

2. Summarize your belief in God as Creator. (What do you believe about God's act of creation? What creation-related questions do you not yet have answers for? What do you see as the significance of the Christian doctrine of creation?

This is my response.

As I sit here and read our textbook, Christian Faith: An Introduction to Theology, I get more

frustrated as I dig for information about Christian Doctrine. How is this to affect my faith?

Should I be letting an earthly ideal, created by man, dictate my belief? I believe in God because

of my life experience and the people that God has placed in my life. God literally saved me from

taking my own life. What more do I need than the soft-spoken loving words of our God, telling

me it is not worth killing myself, then lifting not all, but part of that burden from me so that I can

tolerate life. Why do I want to waste time trying to figure out how God created this world when I

know full well His thoughts are not like my thoughts, His ways are not our ways. Isaiah tells us

exactly the way that it is. Christ further tells us to go and make disciples and gives us all the

information and tools to do the job and do the job well. Yet, here we sit, trying to figure out the

universe, so that we can offer an explanation to others who are looking for answers in all the

wrong places.

I believe in God partly because God believes in me. I believe in God, partly because God has

faith in me. I believe in God, partly because of the Scripture He gave me in Timothy 1: 15-16. I

believe in God completely because of His actions in my life and the unfailing love that He has

demonstrated to me in this imperfect world.

Do I need anything more than this? No. Is there value in reading and studying books other than

the Bible? Yes, Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Life is partly to blame for my being on this path of

seeking God’s face. But, then again, this takes me back to the Scripture in 1st Timothy. I do not

know, nor do I understand even the slightest bit why God has sought me out, but He has. I do

not deserve such attention, as I am so very broken; I put the Scripture in 1st Timothy to shame.

That is probably why He gave it to me and why I love Him so.