Faith or Fiction?

"The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and the moon. It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both the summer and the winter."              Psalm 74: 16, 17

    Do you remember taking science tests in school? There were myriad ways to divulge your knowledge or lack thereof: multiple choice, true or false or the dreaded essay answer. It seemed like the true or false questions were preferable because at least there was a 50/50 chance your guess was correct. 

    These types of questions present themselves in our lives as adults. I have found it's usually Satan who is giving the test. For instance, I was looking up some information about the origin of the sun on Wikipedia and here is the answer: "It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System."

    Now, I don't claim to know everything, but that sounds like an Eddie Haskell answer to me. To be able to recognize lies, one has to become familiar with the Truth. Listen to what the Bible says about the origin of the sun: on the fourth day of creation, God made "the lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night...God made two great lights - the greater to govern the day and the lesser to govern the night. He also made the stars." (Genesis 1: 14, 16)

    The first explanation, though is sounds grandiose, is full of holes. Where did the matter come from? Who made the molecular cloud? Knowing my Father the way I do, when He tells me something, I believe it because He cannot lie. He says: "For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him." (Colossians 1:16) Therefore, the answer to my question about the origin of the sun is found in the truth of scriptures: God made it.

    If I were to take a test in science class today, knowing that they teach the theory of evolution as fact, I would likely fail, but I wouldn't fail miserably! I pass God's test with gold stars.

"Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens; who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing." Isaiah 40: 26