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1. In The Beginning
Genesis 1:1-4

2. The Atheist says
“There is no God”
“We are the product of 4.5 billion years of
fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is
no reason to think that the evolutionary
process has stopped. Man is a transitional
animal. He is not the climax of creation.” Dr.
Carl Sagan

3. The Humanist says
“Man is God”
Religious humanists regard the universe
as self-existing and not created. (Humanist
Manifesto I, American Humanistic Association, First Article,
1933)

4. The New Ager says
“ Everything is God”
"We are at any given moment living the totality
of everything....The vibrational oscillation of
nature is quickening....Just remember that
you are God, and act accordingly." Shirley
Maclaine

5. The Egotist says
“ I am God”
"Everything is more or less organized matter.
To think so is against religion, but I think so
just the same. When did I realize I was God?
Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I
was talking to myself." --Peter O'Toole

6. But Mosses said
“In the beginning
God”

7. What do you believe about
God?
What you believe about God
is your worldview. It colors
everything else you believe
about the world, about
others and about yourself.
I believe in God as I believe that the Sun has
risen, not only because I see it, but because by
it I see everything else. --C. S. Lewis

8. In the beginning God
created the heavens and
the earth. Gen 1:1
Believe this and you
shouldn’t have a problem
believing everything else in
the Bible.

9. Attacks against believers
usually start here.
Foolish people say that a Creator made the world. The teaching
that the world was created is wrong, and should be rejected. If
God created the world, where was he before creation? …
No single being had the skill to make this world. Besides, how can
a spiritual god create that which is material? How could God
have made the world without any raw material?....
Good men should combat the believer in divine creation, who is
maddened by evil doctrine. Know that the world is uncreated,
as time itself is, without beginning and end….It is uncreated
and indestructible, it endures through the compulsion of its
own nature. (Mahapurana 4.16-31, 38-40. A Scripture of
Jainism)

10. Yet, the universe gives
evidence of God.
Psalm 19:1-4 (NET)
1
For the music director; a psalm of
David. The heavens declare the glory of
God; the sky displays his handiwork. 2
Day after day it speaks out; night after
night it reveals his greatness. 3
There is
no actual speech or word, nor is its
voice literally heard. 4
Yet its voice
echoes throughout the earth; its words
carry to the distant horizon.

11. The result of the evidence
Romans 1:18-25 (NET)
18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
people who suppress the truth by their
unrighteousness, 19
because what can be known
about God is plain to them, because God has
made it plain to them. 20
For since the creation of
the world his invisible attributes – his eternal
power and divine nature – have been clearly
seen, because they are understood through
what has been made. So people are without
excuse.

12. The result of the evidence
Romans 1:18-25 (NET)
21
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as
God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their
thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an
image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-
footed animals or reptiles. 24
Therefore God gave them
over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor
their bodies among themselves. 25
They exchanged the
truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!
Amen.

13. So, what does the Bible say about
God?
Genesis 1:1-5 (NET)
1
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.

14. In the beginning God …
• Before the beginning there was only God.
• Time started when God began to create.
– God exists outside of time.
– God is the author of time.
– God determines the order, sequence and
perimeters of time.
– God influences time, but is not influenced by
time. He is independent of time.

15. In the beginning God …
• Elohim
– The first name used for God in the Old Testament
– It is used 2,500 times in the Old Testament
– It appears to mean “Strong One” and emphasizes
His majesty and might.
– It is plural in form but usually singular in meaning.
Often called a “plural of majesty”.
– This “uni-plural” noun my suggest a uni-plurality
within the God-head. God is one, yet more than
one.

16. In the beginning God created
Created (bara)
– The verb ‫רא‬ָ‫ב‬ָּ (bara’) always describes the
divine activity of fashioning something new,
fresh, and perfect.
– The verb does not necessarily describe
creation out of nothing (1:21,27), but it is
implied here and elsewhere (Heb. 11:3; Col
1:15-17; Rom 4:17).
Genesis 1:21 God created the great sea
creatures and every living and moving thing
with which the water swarmed, according to
their kinds, and every winged bird according
to its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:27 God created humankind in his
own image, in the image of God he created
them, male and female he created them.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we
understand that the worlds were
set in order at God’s command,
so that the visible has its origin
in the invisible.
Colossians 1:15-17 15
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation, 16
for all things in heaven and
on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or
invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether
principalities or powers – all things were created through him
and for him. 17
He himself is before all things and all things
are held together in him.
Romans 4:17 (NASB95) 17
(as it is written, “A father of many nations
have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even
God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does
not exist.
John 1:3 (NET) All
things were created
by him, and apart
from him not one
thing was created
that has been
created.

17. What did God
create?

18. In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Heavens and earth = the entire ordered
universe.
– Heavens (plural) includes all that is other than
the earth.
– Earth – our world.
– He created what we see and what we can’t
see
– He created physical beings and spiritual
beings.
– He is the force that holds it all together.
Colossians 1:16 (NET)
16
for all things in heaven and on earth were
created by him – all things, whether visible or
invisible, whether thrones or dominions,
whether principalities or powers – all things
were created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:17 (NET)
17
He himself is before all things
and all things are held together
in him.

19. In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
– Universe is a tri-unity of time, space and
matter (energy is included in matter).
• Time – past, present, future
• Space – three dimensional
• Matter – liquid, solid, gas
– Every painting reveals something about it’s
maker. The universe is God’s masterpiece
revealing characteristics about his nature.

20. Worship the God of Creation
Psalm 104:24-35 (NET)
24
How many living things you have made, O Lord! You
have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is
full of the living things you have made. 25
Over here is the
deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming
creatures, living things both small and large. 26
The ships
travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to
play in it. 27
All of your creatures wait for you to provide them
with food on a regular basis. 28
You give food to them and
they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with
food. 29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take
away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust. 30
When
you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you
replenish the surface of the ground.

21. Worship the God of Creation
Psalm 104:24-35 (NET)
31
May the splendor of the Lord endure! May the Lord
find pleasure in the living things he has made! 32
He
looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the
mountains and they start to smolder. 33
I will sing to the
Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God as
long as I exist! 34
May my thoughts be pleasing to him!
I will rejoice in the Lord. 35
May sinners disappear from
the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the Lord, O
my soul! Praise the Lord!

22. The Creation Worships Him
Psalm 148:1-7 (NET)
1
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the sky! Praise
him in the heavens! 2
Praise him, all his angels! Praise
him, all his heavenly assembly! 3
Praise him, O sun
and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars! 4
Praise
him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the
sky! 5
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he
gave the command and they came into existence. 6
He
established them so they would endure; he issued a
decree that will not be revoked. 7
Praise the Lord from
the earth, you sea creatures and all you ocean
depths,

23. The Creation Worships Him
Psalm 148:8-14 (NET)
8
O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that
carries out his orders, 9
you mountains and all you
hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars, 10
you animals
and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds, 11
you
kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and
all you leaders on the earth, 12
you young men and
young women, you elderly, along with you children! 13
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name
alone is exalted; his majesty extends over the earth
and sky. 14
He has made his people victorious, and
given all his loyal followers reason to praise – the
Israelites, the people who are close to him. Praise the
Lord!

24. The God of Creation gives us
strength.
Isaiah 40:25-31 (NET)
25
“To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says
the Holy One. 26
Look up at the sky! Who created all these
heavenly lights? He is the one who leads out their ranks; he calls
them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome
strength, not one of them is missing. 27
Why do you say, Jacob,
Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is
happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?
28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal
God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or
weary; there is no limit to his wisdom. 29
He gives strength to
those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives
renewed energy. 30
Even youths get tired and weary; even strong
young men clumsily stumble. 31
But those who wait for the Lord’s
help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’
wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting
tired.

25. The Creator will be worshiped
Revelation 4:9-11 (NET)
9
And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor,
and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who
lives forever and ever, 10
the twenty-four elders throw
themselves to the ground before the one who sits on
the throne and worship the one who lives forever and
ever, and they offer their crowns before his throne,
saying: 11
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to
receive glory and honor and power, since you created
all things, and because of your will they existed and
were created!”

26. The Creator will judge
Revelation 10:5-6 (NET)
5
Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and
on the land raised his right hand to heaven 6
and swore by the one who lives forever and
ever, who created heaven and what is in it,
and the earth and what is in it, and the sea
and what is in it, “There will be no more delay!

27. The Creator will deliver us
Romans 8:18-22 (NET)
18
For I consider that our present sufferings cannot
even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to
us. 19
For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation
of the sons of God. 20
For the creation was subjected to
futility – not willingly but because of God who
subjected it – in hope 21
that the creation itself will also
be set free from the bondage of decay into the
glorious freedom of God’s children. 22
For we know that
the whole creation groans and suffers together until
now.

28. Come to the
Creator.