The ICR article, Creation and the New Year (https://www.icr.org/articles/type/9) by Dr. Henry M. Morrison, contains a challenge to Christians for the new year 2024 and is valid for any year as well: A “firm renewal of one’s commitment to special creation, as literally recorded by divine revelation in the inerrant Word of God is thus the proper way to begin a New Year, or a new home, or a new career, or a new family, or any phase of a Christian life. This is the time to confess and forsake all doubts, and trust God’s Word! In the beginning of the first year, God created all things. At the beginning of this year, we should resolve to believe and obey all things in His Word.”
The message begins, “It is appropriate for Christians to begin the New Year by referring back to the beginning of the very first year. The first verse of God’s Word is also its most important verse, since it is the foundation on which everything else is built. Even God’s great work of salvation is irrelevant and futile without His prior work of creation, for only the Creator of all things could ever become the Savior of all things.” The whole message of the gospel in the New Testament rests on the foundation of a literal creation narrative in Genesis 1 and the subsequent fall of mankind in Genesis 2. There was no need for Christ’s mission of atonement as the Lamb of God in His first advent otherwise and John 3:16 would be pointless.
It thus behooves every Christian to accept this challenge for each new year and truly begin the year with a renewed commitment to the inerrant truths of the Scriptures.
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