Everyone decided that the Book of Genesis should be our next study.  We just completed the Book of Revelation so now that we know the way the story ends, we might as well discuss how it all began.  Our overall consensus is that; if someone cannot believe the creation study as written in the Bible, how on earth can they believe the rest of the Bible?  We can’t pick and choose what we are going to believe, we have to believe the whole story.  It does state in 2 Tim. 3:16, that the Bible was inspired by God.  The whole Bible, He inspired what went into His Word.  The Bible does not make elaborate arguments for the existence of God. However, it does tell us how we can know God exists.

 

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.  Romans 1:20

 

Vs 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The very first verse declares a great and important truth; all things had a beginning; that nothing throughout the wide extent of nature existed from eternity, originated by chance, or from the skill of any inferior agent; but that the whole universe was produced by the creative power of The Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.  It states specifically that the Holy Spirit was present in verse 2 and in John 1:1 it states that Jesus, the Word was in the beginning with God.  So you have all three of the Godhead involved in the creating of the world. 

 

The Book of Genesis is so much more than just the creation story; it sets the stage for the entire drama of redemption, which unfolds in the rest of the book, culminating in the return of Jesus in Revelation.  In Genesis we find the doctrines of sin, redemption, justification, Jesus Christ, the personality and personhood of God, the kingdom of God, the fall, Israel, the promise of the Messiah, and much more. 

 

(Martin Luther) "I beg and faithfully warn every pious Christian not to stumble at the simplicity of the language and stories that will often meet him there [in Genesis]. He should not doubt that, however simple they may seem, these are the very words, works, judgments, and deeds of the high majesty, power, and wisdom of God."

 

In the first sentence in the Bible we also see the total boundless, immense thoughts to create what He created.  We can’t even try to imagine how big the solar system is but scientists have said there are billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each galaxy, just for starters.  In Psalm 147 it says He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. So of course we can believe that He has each of the hairs on our heads numbered as well!  Isaiah 48:13, "Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together."

 

The mystery of the gospel (the cross) was foreordained before the ages: 1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.  2Tim 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. 

 

The balance of the chapter covers each of the six days of creation.  Not a single item in any of those days was created by ‘chance’; they were all created from nothing, spoken into existence by God.  A method that is referred to as intelligent design!  Leaving the idea of evolution, creation by chance, out there where things of chance should be, an unproven probability!  Chance itself can “do” nothing.   Just imagine the unimaginable creative mind of God to speak into existence all different species of animals, all different plant types, trees and all kinds of swimming creatures.  Look at how every created item has purpose and intelligence.  How it was spoken that all plants would self-reproduce from seed unto its own kind, a replenishing food supply.  That is intelligent design, not by chance!