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In “Did Jesus Stick to the Creation script?“, I pointed out where Jesus responded to God’s creative pronouncements, and where science suggests other creative actions in between.  I sort of let the question of Jesus’ involvement in the unrecorded creative actions hang.

What makes this an interesting question is that the creation account suggests Jesus did nothing between the evening and morning, but science suggests He did… or God did, in some respect.  Really, there is no requirement that Jesus be the one who performed these intermediate creative actions.  After all, Jesus was there with the Father, not instead of the Father.  Therefore, it is most likely that the Father was responsible.

Though a skeptic will undoubtedly find this entire argument absurd, the skeptic usually finds God’s mere existence absurd, let alone His nature, specifically the Trinity.  I have argued elsewhere that Jesus participated in creation and Jesus told Moses what He witnessed at Creation, personally.  I have also shown that what He told Moses complements other Biblical accounts of creation, found in Psalms, Job, and Proverbs.  Combined with Genesis, they depict a series of events that are verified by mainstream science.  It would seem therefore that Jesus was telling the creation story to Moses from His own perspective, leaving out the details He wasn’t present for.

The Father on the other hand was present for it all… not physically mind you.  Recall our study showing that the Father’s presence is always in Heaven, though He interacts with the physical universe from there.  Therefore, should it be that God the Father is the one acting in creation during what Jesus described as His “evenings”, we shouldn’t be too surprised.  To test the reasonableness of this theory, let us compare the actions we know of so far.

• Jesus stopped meteors (Day 1)
• Jesus stopped rain (Day 2)
• The Father caused the primordial ooze to form from existing chemicals (Evening 2)
• The Father caused the first prokaryotes to form from existing eukaryotes (Evening 2)
• Jesus started plate tectonics (Day 3)
• The Father caused plants to form from existing prokaryotes (Evening 3)
• Jesus caused the plants to boom, cleaning up the atmosphere with Oxygen (Day 4)

And we could go on, but I think we can already discern a pattern.  Jesus’ actions were on a macro level, while the Father’s were more micro.  This makes sense, because Jesus was God’s way of manifesting Himself physically, visibly; the Father acts invisibly. 

Notice also that Jesus modified conditions on the earth, while the Father used those conditions to develop the complexity of life.  This again matches what we see in scripture.  In the Old Testament, the Father promised a messiah to Eve, introduced sacrifices through Abel, created a people through Abraham, added the law through Moses, a kingly line through David, numerous promises for a messiah through the prophets, until finally He sent Jesus to earth to die for our sins.  The Father indeed builds complexity over time.  Yet notice what Jesus did with His ministry… He changed it all.  He died for our sins, rose from the dead, fulfilled the Law, left behind the Holy Spirit, and from that we saw the church form and the Gentiles grafted into the tree of life.  Jesus changes things all right!

Finally, we see in Creation that Jesus acted to separate, while the Father acted to build.  And we know from scripture that Jesus came to separate a mother from her son, while the Father grew an Olive Tree (as described by Paul in Romans).

Therefore, given God’s consistency with Himself, we see how God’s very nature intertwines with key aspects of life’s development.

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