Q1: Who made me?

Written By Truitt Baptist Church

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

So God created man in his own image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26-27

The first question in our Catechism for Boys and Girls asks a simple question, a question that all of us, regardless of age and religious background have asked at one point or another. It’s simple in it’s structure, but its amazingly complex in its implications for how we approach life.

The question is simple. It may be one of the most simple questions asked. It is simply this: Where did I come from? Now on it’s face, the answer to this question can be simply answered, “You came from your parents” but if one goes down the rabbit hole of this question and ask where their parents came from, and where did their parents parents come from and on and on we come to the ground level of this question and the answer is not quite so simple.

At it’s core, the question is a question that has been asked of every major religion, every philosophy, every scientist since the beginning of time. It’s a question of being. It’s the question of why we are and every major worldview from the theological (Theos greek for God and Logos greek for word) to the Atheistic (Atheos - a meaning without, theos meaning God) must answer the question of where did we come from.

For the Christian the answer to this question is found in scripture, the place where all of life’s most important questions must find their answer. God’s Word never promises to answer every human question, but it does promise to be the basis of truth for understanding all things (Psalm 86:11; Proverbs 30:5; John 1:14; John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16)1. And in God’s word we find the answer to this question: Who made me? God made me.

According to scripture, God made me and the implications of this truth are staggering. There’s a reason why this question of beginnings is one of the most fundamental and important questions asked by philosophers and religious leaders throughout human history, because the answer to this question speaks to the meaning of and the purpose of our lives.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an amazingly popular astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. He is best known for his work on PBS’s popular  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. As an atheist he famously said this about our beginnings:

What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that the universe had a beginning.

The universe continues to evolve.

And yes, every one of our body’s atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out – and we have only just begun.

The problem with Tyson and others is that if we are just random accidents of chance, as the atheists contend, then life is simply subjective whim. There is not absolute truth, no dock upon which to moor our lives and we are empowered by nothing other than chance with no purpose other than cold survival. Morality, meaning and purpose are all just what the individual or society determine it to be.

But scripture tells us that we aren’t here by accident. We were made with a purpose. That purpose is given to us by a good Creator who made us in His image. Every one of us is valuable and is made with dignity and worth by a loving God. Everyone matters.

Psalm 139:13-16 speaks to the great value God has placed upon creation:

13  For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

15  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

The God of the universe created us and values us and loves us. Each one of us, from the greatest king to the lowliest servant, from the most amazing athlete to the baby in the womb have supreme value because God created us, knows us, and gives purpose to us (Jeremiah 1:5).

Question to ponder:

How should the fact of God’s creation of you affect the way you see yourself and others today?

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