Category: In the Beginning

Why Not My Little Small World?

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image,
in our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air,
over the livestock, over all the earth,
and over all the creatures that move along the
ground.”

So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God he created him; male and female
he created them.

Genesis 1:26-27

Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Job 11:7

Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him
who rides on the clouds-His name is the Lord-
and rejoice before him.
Psalm 68:4

The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of
the heavens shook;
they trembled because he was angry. Smoke rose from
his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.

He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds
were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and
flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his canopy around him—the dark
rain clouds of the sky.

Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning
blazed forth.

The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most
High resounded.

2 Samuel 22:8-14


Can You Hear Me Now?

 

…an impersonal beginning explains neither the form of the universe nor the personality of man…But the Judeo-Christian tradition begins with the opposite answer. And it is upon this that our whole Western culture has been built.

 

The universe had a personal beginning – a personal beginning on the high order of the Trinity. That is, before ” in the beginning ” the personal was already there. Love and thought and communication existed prior to the creation of the heavens and the earth.

 

Modern man is deeply plagued by the question “Where do love and communication come from?” Many artists who pour themselves out in their paintings, who paint bleak messages on canvas, many singers, many poets and dramatists are expressing the blackness of the fact that while everything hangs upon love and communication, they don’t know where these come from and they don’t know what they mean.
The biblical answer is quite otherwise: Something was there before creation. God was there; love and communication were there; and therefore, prior even to Genesis 1:1, love and communication are intrinsic to what always has been.

Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984)

 


Believe

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The manner in which the Holy Scriptures
open is worthy of their Divine Author.
“In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth,” and that is all that is here
recorded concerning the original creation.

Nothing is said which enables us to fix the
date of their creation; nothing is revealed
concerning their appearance or inhabitants;
nothing is told us about the modus operandi
of their Divine Architect….

The bare fact is stated: “In the beginning God created,”

and nothing is added to gratify
the curious. The opening sentence of Holy Writ
is not to be philosophized about, but is presented
as a statement of truth to be received with
unquestioning faith.

“In the beginning God created.”
No argument is entered into to prove the existence
of God: instead, His existence is affirmed as
a fact to be believed.

Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)