In the Beginning God….

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

This statement without question staggers the human mind.  When you and I as finite human beings bring
our minds to that statement, it is like bringing a teacup to God’s ocean of
truth. This opening verse of the Bible is the foundational truth of the whole
Bible. God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is within
them.  And He gives meaning and purpose and value to life.

The existence of God is the basic assumption of the
Bible.  It begins simply by saying, “In the beginning
God….”  But it is a reasonable assumption.  And anyone who
does not believe this first verse in the Bible will have great difficulty
believing anything else that the Holy Scriptures have to say.

Creation itself is one of God’s great missionaries.
In Psalm 19:1 we read, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies
proclaim the work of his hands.”  His fingerprints are all over His
creation.  He has revealed Himself as “…the everlasting God, the
Creator of the ends of the earth.” (Isaiah 40:28) 

The creation account in Genesis gives atheists no
peace.  They deny the existence of
God. And they hide behind the wall of evolution, a pseudo-intellectual
hiding place.  Evolutionists believe that in the beginning life
spontaneously appeared. 

Consider the following statement, addressing this issue,
by Dr. George Wald, a Nobel Prize winner of Harvard University, who said,
“One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that
the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.  Yet here
we are, as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.”[1]
He believes what he himself says is impossible. 

Theistic evolutionists fare no better.  At the other
end of the evolutionary time line they find that they have evolved from the
image and likeness of monkeys.  Compare Genesis 1:26, 27, where man is
created in the image and likeness of God.  There really is a difference,
isn’t there?

Genesis 1:1 has no room for pantheism.  The God of
creation is separate from His creation.  Polytheism, the belief in many
gods, has no factual basis.  Atheistic Communism used to teach
materialism, the mistaken belief that matter is eternal.  The heavens and
the earth had a beginning.  They began with God.

This God is our Creator.  He isn’t seeking scholarly
opinions that deny His Word.  He is seeking true worshippers, those who
will worship Him in spirit and in truth. (See John 4:24)

In a way it is a very simple verse. When you think about
it the complexity of what is dealt with here and you think about the vastness
of creation. You look through the microscope and you see a world so infinitely
small the human eye cannot see it.

Then you look at a telescope and you see a world that is
so marvelously large, man has never been able to go to its outer limits and yet
God puts it all together in these words, In the beginning God…

The psalmist calls out, ” Come, let us bow down in
worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are
the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”  (Psalm 95:6-7)