Our family Creation Museum experience

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

     Last week my family and I went to the Creation Museum. I am not quite sure what I expected but what I got was so much better. 

     It was a fun and exciting trip to take my children on. I love to drive through Indiana. It looks like no one lives there because there is so much land and very little civilization and it goes on what seems like forever. I enjoy seeing all the land and the animals on the farms as we drive by. One of my favorite things to see in Indiana is this. They seem to go on for miles,as far as you can see there they are.  We made stops along the way and we sang songs together, but all of us could not wait until we arrived. We stayed at the hotel the first night fellowshipping with our friends that we came with. We laughed and laughed while swimming in the freezing cold pool(actually it was too cold for me so I just stood in the very shallow part, :P) and then we were like the frogs in a bowling pot of water sitting in the hot tub. That water was so hot seriously, you could have cooked us. 


     The next morning was the big day. The day to go to the wonderful museum that we had all been waiting for. I know we went on a weekday but I was shocked to see the parking lot not very full. They have guards there that look like real police. We walked toward the front door and right away we see our first dinosaur. Of course it is the perfect photo op. I should take a minute right here and confess something to you. When I was growing up, I was raised in a church, complete with the typical Sunday School. I knew all the bible stories. But, when I was getting older in school, more like High School, I couldn't settle the fact that we were being taught that the earth was millions of years old and the dinosaurs lived way back then. At the same time, no one in church took the time to explain how dinosaurs fit in the Bible so, I just took the stand that since I believed the Bible to be true and there was no way the earth was that old then therefore, dinosaurs must not have existed. Because of the teaching of Answers in Genesis, I have since changed my beliefs. Here is a link to one of their teachings http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/1999/11/05/dinosaurs-and-the-bible.  When we walked into the actual museum we were greeted with the beginning. Right there for us to touch and see were what looked like real people, Adam and Eve in the garden with a river running through it and real fish in the water. Plants and vegetation were all over with a huge dinosaur eating the leaves. It only gets better from there. Everything that is in Genesis from chapter 1 all the way to chapter 11 was right there for us to see, touch and read about. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Ark, the Tower of Babel. It was all there in such a real way.


    We even took the time to sit through a speaker that was about an hour long. His name was Tim Chaffey and his talk was "Is Genesis Relevant in Today's World?". The talk was amazing and I wish they had a copy of it on cd or at least available on their website. He clearly explains why we, as professing Christians, should be firm on our belief that God created this world in just 6 days. His argument is that if evolution were correct or even believing that, to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day, then that would mean that sin, disease, disasters and things such as that would have been here before Adam and Eve but the word clearly says that after God was done with all His creating and He looked at it all and said "it is very good" Genesis 1:31 "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day." See Christians who believe in millions of years base it on this scripture:

2 Peter 3:7-9 (ESV)

⁸But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

But when you look at it in context it is talking about something more eternal.

2 Peter 3:7-9

English Standard Version (ESV)

⁷But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
 ⁸But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,^[a] not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

     I can not say that I learned anything profoundly new but what I did get from this trip was confirmation and a lot of being built up in my faith. Yes, that is right, my faith is even stronger now because of this trip. To be honest, when Tim Chaffey was speaking it was as if the Lord was speaking through him directly to me saying in His loving voice, "Keep up the good work my daughter, you are on the right path. Stand firm on My Word and keep proclaiming My truth. Well done My good and faithful servant, well done." If I had to sum it up into one word it would be "affirmed". 

     I would encourage anyone of you to go and see the Creation Museum. No matter where you are in your walk with God, whether it be away from Him, new to Him, or with Him for years, I promise you will not walk out of there the same as when you walked in. Here is a link for you to check it out for yourselves. http://creationmuseum.org/

John 1

The Word Became Flesh

 ¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life,^[a] and the life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 
AMEN!