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This week, we continue our discussion on reasoning. It is good for people to reason. The Lord gave us brains so that we could use them. He even went so far as to say "Come, let us reason together," in Isaiah 1:18.

Is it unreasonable to believe in God and that He created the earth and all that is in it? Does such a belief qualify me for membership in the "Flat Earth Society?"

Obviously not, since a significant number of astronauts also believe in a creator. (Must be something about seeing the earth from space that leads one to believe that this is not merely a chain reaction set off by a giant gas explosion millions of years ago.)

It takes great intelligence and reasoning ability to be an astronaut. So does their belief in a creator mean these astronauts are uneducated simpletons who should join the Flat Earth Society? Hardly.

So, if it is reasonable to believe in a creator (God), is it so unreasonable to believe that He created the earth in six literal days? He is allpowerful, is he not?

There are those who believe that the earth is older than 6,000 years and God has slowly built and evolved the world over millions of years. I suppose that is not outside the realm of possibility, except that the book revered to be the Word of God teaches against this possibility.

Genesis 1:5 clearly states the "evening and the morning were the first day," not the first age, period, etc.

So, how did God create the world in six days? (Here is what qualifies me as a flatearther). I don't know. I do know He spoke it into existence and the Bible teaches (through the prophets) the angels were present praising His work through the whole thing (which explains why no one asked "what is man?" They were too busy praising God.)

If I knew all the ins and outs of God, He'd be a God I could master, thus He'd be no God at all. There are times it is appropriate to not understand how all the pieces fit together and just to praise God for this wonderful creation in which we live.

Psalm 24 says, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods."

This means God created the world, it belongs to Him and He makes the rules. It is up to us to figure out what He wants from us and how to make Him happy. These answers can be found in the Bible, or Lord-willing, in this column in the coming weeks.