In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
"It is appropriate for Christians to begin the New Year by referring back to the beginning of the very first year.
The first verse of God’s Word is also its most important verse, since it is the foundation on which everything else is built.
Even God’s great work of salvation is irrelevant and futile without His prior work of creation, for only the Creator of all things could ever become the Savior of all things.
Genesis 1:1
"It is appropriate for Christians to begin the New Year by referring back to the beginning of the very first year.
The first verse of God’s Word is also its most important verse, since it is the foundation on which everything else is built.
Even God’s great work of salvation is irrelevant and futile without His prior work of creation, for only the Creator of all things could ever become the Savior of all things.
If a person really believes Genesis 1:1, he or she should have no difficulty believing anything else in the Bible.
The verse is comprehensive and scientific, viewing space (“the heavens”) and matter (“the earth”) as functioning in a framework of time (“in the beginning”).
This space/matter/time “continuum” (as scientists call it) has not existed eternally, nor is it still being created, both of which heresies are standard beliefs of all forms of evolutionary pantheism (including most of the world’s religions and philosophies, ancient or modern). It was created—and even completed in the past.
This foundation of all foundations is, clearly, the only sure foundation upon which one should build a life, or an organization, or anything." ICR