The Story

This story is super condensed and it may raise more questions than answers. Rest assured those questions do have answers, and we’re happy to direct you to an enormous amount of helpful information.

While there is a much bigger story, our focus is on God’s creation and man’s original rebellion, followed by God’s judgment, the reason behind the scars we see, even today.

A little over 6,000 years ago God created time, energy, space, and matter, as well as the earth and the universe. He then created every living thing that inhabits the earth, along with information systems, and interdependent biological systems. As a final capstone of His creation, He created humans, both male and female.

God placed the first couple, Adam and Eve, in a beautiful garden and gave them just one prohibition; they were not to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even with plenty of other trees with lots of amazing fruit, they still chose to disobey and eat from the forbidden tree, and by doing so broke the relationship they had with their Creator.

Over the next roughly 1,600 years, generations passed, and mankind became more and more disobedient, violent, and evil. God recruited a righteous man to build a large ship which would be large enough to carry two (male and female) of every kind of creature, both wild and domestic, so Noah and his sons built the ship and welcomed others to join them. Just as amazing as it sounds to break the only rule in the garden, it is equally baffling that no one chose the path of salvation (safety) from the coming storm by boarding the ship.

God had warned that He was going to wipe out all of mankind, along with animals and birds, and He did exactly what He said He was going to do. The ensuing worldwide flood completely changed the surface of the earth from how it was originally created, with everything being completely rearranged. The earth’s sediments were carried by currents all over the earth, and the continents likely broke apart, and those sediments were laid down in the various layers we see today. Since they were formed in water, they were capable of being bent and folded. As the waters became less violent and flowed into the newly created seas, many of the visible landscape scars we see today were formed. After their one-year voyage, the people and animals left the ship, and the first thing God did was to set a rainbow in the clouds with a promise to never flood the entire earth again, a promise He has kept.

We can see that God displayed His anger at mankind through the flood, but He also says there’s another day coming that will be even worse because man’s rebellion against God has only increased. The next time the earth will be destroyed by fire. With this coming doomsday as a backdrop, let’s continue the story.

A little over 300 years after the flood was over, people began to repopulate the earth, and God called a man named Abraham to be His follower. God made several promises to Abraham, but we’ll only focus on one. He promised that Abraham would have a descendant who would act as a deliverer of mankind from God’s impending wrath. That descendant is Jesus Christ, God Himself, who entered His own creation as a baby to live as a human, who committed no crimes, and who was therefore the only person who could pay for man’s rebellion against a perfectly holy God. One man’s crime in the Garden doomed all of mankind to eternal separation from God. One Man’s sacrifice provided the way for all of mankind to be reconciled to God for eternity. Our right response is to turn from following our natural disobedient nature, to obey and follow Christ, and to become His disciple.

The purpose of Scargazers is to share the visible scars all over the world. Even though many are amazing and beautiful, they also serve as a reminder of what happened to the earth, people, and animals because of mankind’s rebellion, violence, and evil. God provided the ship as a the only means of salvation last time, this time the only means of salvation is through Jesus Christ.