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*Genesis 1:1…* In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
*Commentary*
The first words in the Bible are familiar to most people whether they’re church goers or not.
These first four words, the first words ever written, do not attempt to prove God’s existence, but they do assume it without question.
It is only the fool who says there is no God (Psalm 14:1).
What a person does with these words in Genesis 1:1 will determine to a large extent what they do with the rest of the words of scripture.
If a person does believe these words he won’t find anything written in the scriptures that can shake his faith in the Creator God.
If God created all things, then he controls all things.
Dr. H.M. Morris says, “The passage refutes /atheism/ b~/c God created.
It refutes /pantheism/ b~/c God is transcendent over His creation.
It refutes /polytheism/ b~/c one God created all.
It refutes /materialism/ b~/c all matter had a beginning.
It refutes /dualism/ b~/c God was alone when He created.
It refutes /humanism/ b~/c God, not man, is the ultimate reality.
It refutes /evolutionism/ b~/c God created all things.”
All of these “ism’s” are nothing more than man’s feeble attempt to discredit God.
They all reflect unbelief.
The creation account in Genesis does not attempt to defend God’s existence because at the time there was nothing to defend.
In other words, there was no pagan system at that time promoting any other “god.”
The passage answers the questions man has asked for millennia, namely, who, what, & when?
Who? /God/.
What? the /heavens and the earth/.
When? /in the/ /beginning/.
Exactly when that beginning was is a lively debate among scholars today.
In contrast to all ancient accounts of creation and modern philosophies, which begin with preexisting matter in some form, the biblical account of creation begins with nothing, only God.
The Genesis creation is unique in all of literature b~/c it /begins/ with God alone creating.
When did He create?
Genesis 1, 5, 11, & 12 give chronological data from the time of the creation of the universe to Abraham, who was born in 2166 BC.
The historical books of the OT give chronological data from Abraham to 100 years after the time the Jews were released from Babylonian captivity (up to 425 BC), and the intertestamental period lasted about 400 years up to the time of Christ.
Using this data, the creation account of Genesis 1:1ff dates to  somewhere around 4000 BC (see also, Luther, Ussher, Kepler, & Galileo).
There are very likely some minor gaps in these chronologies, but as Morris has said, “It would seem impossible to insert gaps totaling more than about 5,000 years in these chapters without rendering the record irrelevant and absurd.”
The Bible simply will not support a date for creation prior to 10,000 BC.
That brings our planet to no more than 12,000 years old.
Though modern science will insist that man has his origins somewhere around 2,000,000 years ago, this contradicts the Bible and common sense as well.
A case in point is the human population.
Currently, the annual population growth rate is 2%.
If man began 2 million years ago and increased at 1~/10 of the present rate there would be 5 quintillion people on the earth (2.5 billion more than the present population!).
Even if each two people produced, on the average, 2.6 children in their lifetime, the earth’s population would double each year.
If we began that process in 4000 BC, the earth’s present population would come just short of 10 trillion!
(currently it’s 6 billion).
Man simply couldn’t have originated 2,000,000 years ago.
Judging by population standards and common sense, man is a /recent/ creation of God just like Genesis tells us.
The Bible has never changed, yet science changes regularly.
It contains truth that science has /never/ disproved, try as it might.
No matter what you read in the newspapers about a recent creation, it continues to stand up to its detractors and reflects sound biblical exegesis.
Pray to the God of the universe today, and give Him the glory He created you to give to Him.
*Genesis 1:1…* In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
*Commentary*
“In the beginning” comes from one Hebrew word that means “first of time.”
Though this phrase speaks of the origin of the universe and the earth, it does not speak of God’s beginning.
John 1:1 speaks of the fact that Jesus Christ (the “Word”) has always been and was in the beginning with God, and this passage predates Genesis 1:1 in speaking of “the beginning.”
Proverbs 8:22ff is wisdom personified speaking of a time long before God created the universe.
The beginning that Genesis speaks of speaks specifically of God’s creation of /heavens/ /and earth/.
In the beginning “God.”
The Hebrew word for “God” here is /Elohim// – /a designation stressing His majesty and omniscience.
The “im” ending on /Elohim/ is a Hebrew plural, and this word is a word used many times in scripture for pagan “gods.”
In this passage /Elohim/ is used throughout to refer to the One singular God.
The verb that follows is singular, and it signifies that the subject (God) is also to be taken singularly.
The plurality of /Elohim/ here doesn’t teach the Trinity, but it allows for it.
It is a “uni-plural” noun, and it hints at the uni-plurality of the God-head.
God is one, yet He exists as three separate but equal persons.
He isn’t a lonely God in need of man’s fellowship.
There is perfect love, fellowship, and holiness with the members of the Godhead.
Love originated with Him, /not/ with His love towards man or vice versa.
The verb “created” is a verb used in scripture always referring to God’s work, not man’s.
Only God can create, which is to call things into existence that once didn’t exist.
Man can fashion what God has made and call it a creation, but only God can create /ex nihilo/ – out of nothing.
Even Romans 4:17 says that God calls things into being that do not exist.
Genesis 1:1 answers the question of why there is something instead of nothing.
God called it into existence.
The “heavens” is also a Hebrew plural word that sometimes, like /Elohim/, is translated as a singular depending on the context.
It basically refers to space and time in the present passage.
The “earth” simply refers to the component of matter – the planet, the /erets/ (land and ground) in which we live.
During God’s initial creation none of the other planets existed until the fourth day, so the earth is alone in God’s creation.
Since verse two speaks of the earth having no form to it, the creation of the earth in verse one must refer to the basic elements of matter which would later be organized and molded together by God to form the present earth.
What God has created in Genesis 1:1 are the three basic elements: space (/heavens/), time (/in the beginning/), and mass (the /earth/).
None of the three can have a meaningful existence w~/o the other two.
Matter is basically energy, and it can only function in time and space.
Space is measurable, but it requires matter and time in order to be observed.
And time is only meaningful with regard to entities and events that occur within it.
All of which are true also of the Trinity.
*Food for Thought*
            What a wonderful God we serve!
What Genesis 1:1 /doesn’t/ tell us is that Jesus was there in the beginning, but just as John 1:1 teaches that Jesus was “in the beginning,” Colossians 1:16 teaches that it was actually Jesus who did the creating of the universe.
He is part of that plural Godhead signified by the term /Elohim/.
He is the “one mediator between God and man.”
He is the Savior of the world who shed his blood to satisfy the wrath of God for sin.
What an insult to this loving and all-powerful God to take His name in vain, to reject His call of salvation, to adhere to the Godless belief of evolution.
God has made Himself known in His creation (Psalm 19; Rom.
1:19-20), through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the special revelation of His Word.
If you don’t know Him, look out the window and see His creation.
It’s awesome!
*Genesis 1:2…* And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
*Commentary*
            Genesis 1:1 can either be understood as a summary statement about God’s creation with the verses that follow as explanatory, or that it is God’s initial creation of the earth and the rest of the universe, with Genesis 1:2 as His second movement upon that creation.
Option one might be explained as “I built a car” as a summary statement.
I would then tell /how/ I built the car.
Option two might say, “I built a car” in one statement, but in the statements that follow I would explain that the car I initially built was not fully functioning and was in need of body work, a tune-up, and some tires.
There are commentators on both sides, but we’ll look at it from the second view.
The verse begins with “and” (signified by the Hebrew /waw/.)
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