Sunday, February 16, 2014

Everything Begins With God


 Genesis 1:1      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
                     

Before you go any further you will need to answer one question. Do you believe in God? For many people this is an easy yes answer. Many surveys of Americans will reveal that the great majority, over 90% of the people surveyed believe in God. The obvious follow up question should be: Do you believe in the God depicted in the Christian Bible? This question will begin to make many people nervous. For if their understanding and belief in God is based on something other than the Bible, then their belief is already flawed and their picture of God is distorted and their basis for life is a dangerous mirage.

As you begin with Genesis you must wrestle with the God depicted from the outset. All the stories of Genesis, and for that matter throughout Scripture, can only be properly read and understood with a correct view and belief in the God. Any god, spirit or eternal force that is not described in Scripture is a false and tenuous god. A life built on a false understanding of God and the stories or teachings of Scripture leave the reader without a correct understanding and belief system for their lives, relationships and future destiny.

God created all the reality you and I experience. Astronomy, medicine, technology, capitalism, governments and people derive their existence from God’s creative actions in the beginning. People dedicated to the understanding of life continue to seek answers apart from God’s account of things in Scripture. All wealth, nations, languages, knowledge and progress comes from Him and is allowed by Him as the originator or creator of all things.

As you continue to study Scripture recognize the fact that the entire Bible is intended to communicate knowledge to you about God himself and knowledge about you. Genesis begins this education by showing us our appropriate position related to Him and to our studies. You are the creature and He is the creator. From this perspective begins the journey of understanding and knowing the one true God, Jehovah, of the Christian Bible.

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