Our First Day of School

For our first day of school, in our Bible Time, we were learning about Creation. We learned that the Hebrew name used for God in the Creation account in Genesis is the name Elohim, which means Creator God. We also learned two Hebrew verbs used in the creation story. Bara, which means to make or create from nothing. We learned that bara is used when God created the earth. We also learned the verb yatsar, which means to form or fashion from a predetermined pattern. I found these things to be so amazing. We know that, despite what Evolutionists would have us to believe, God spoke the world into existence from nothing yet Scripture shows us clearly a few verses later, using the verb yatsar that we as people were formed or fashioned in the plan that He had. We did not form from monkeys or microscopic life.

So for school we made things out of clay and baked them. The kids had a good time and I think Sculpey is a fun medium for them to use. It holds its shape so well, even holding up to my feeble attempts at making a dinosaur for B#8. Then you bake it and it will last, at least until little hands get ahold of it and break it which unfortunately did happen to several of our things.

On a side note, I had an interesting conversation with my daughter-in-law recently about Creation. She was telling us that when she was in Elementary school they went outside with balloons filled with paint. They were instructed by their teacher to throw up the balloon and when it landed and splattered everywhere that was what the Big Bang was like. I asked her if her paint fell in to a rose, or an eyeball or anything other than a disorganized splatter. She confirmed that No it didn't form into anything when it fell. In my opinion where her teacher was trying to teach the Big Bang theory, she was actually confirming Creation. God is a God of order, not disorder and His Word is true and can be trusted.

This verse comes to mind when I think of schools teaching Evolution as fact when in fact it is a theory...Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Galations 6:7