For several weeks now we have been discussing biblical worldview and what that looks like. We are going through the theology of Scripture to see what a biblical worldview is. First, we looked at the biblical worldview related to the Scriptures answering the question: What would a biblical worldview be related to what we believe about the Bible. Secondly, we took a few days to talk about God Himself and what Scripture says about God and who He is and what we should believe if we are biblical Christians. Today we are going to move to another topic. We are moving on to mankind, or humanity. What does the Scripture say about humanity? What should be our biblical worldview when it comes to people? To find that out, we go right back to the beginning of Scripture in Genesis.
Human beings were the final created act of God on the sixth day of creation. Human beings are absolutely unique. Genesis 2:7 says, “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” We begin with this particular and specific act of God in which He created human beings. Creation is something that God did, according to Scripture, at a moment in time. Therefore, all forms of evolutionary theory are ruled out. It rules out atheistic evolution that doesn’t think it needs God. No Christian would believe that theory. It also rules out theistic evolution - in which people believe God used evolution over a period of billions of years to bring about the planets and millions of years to bring about people and creatures and so forth. Genesis 2:7 unequivocally rules both of these worldviews false. Human beings are a special and unique act of God at one moment in time.
We also find Scriptures that detail the creation of woman. As we read further in Genesis 2:18- 22, it says, “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.’ Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.’” What a beautiful picture we have here of what God has done. This leads right into marriage. Genesis 2:24 says, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” We have this beautiful picture, before the fall of man in the next chapter, in which God has created Adam and Eve uniquely at a special point in time. He has brought them together as the first marriage and created marriage at this time and tells us what marriage is going to be about as a man and woman come together as one flesh. That is the picture we have here of the beginning of humanity.
