Genesis Teaches Beginning: God

Genesis 1:1a

Genesis 1:1a In the beginning God!

Psalm 90:2  Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

God Reveals

God Reveals

Romans 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and

divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation

of the world, in the things that have been made.

God Reveals

Beginning

Beginning

Hebrews 1:3b he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

Beginning

Psalm 139:7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of

the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead

me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Beginning

Psalm 139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my

lying down and are acquainted with all my

ways. 4 Even before a word is on my

tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it

altogether.

Beginning

God

God

“If you deny the Trinity you lose your soul, if you try to explain it

you lose your mind!” St. Augustine:

God

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in

the beginning with God.

God

John 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them

you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

God

Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he

interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning

himself.

God

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. … 6 And without

faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who

seek him.

God

“As we read the Old Testament, we don’t want to merely make

observations about the behavior of the godly and godless and then try

harder to be like the godly and less like the godless. Instead, we must realize that there are no true heroes in the Old Testament. No one is perfectly and persistently

pleasing to God—the judges aren’t strong enough, the kings aren’t

good enough, the prophets aren’t clear enough, and the priests

aren’t pure enough.

God

The Old Testament serves to point out our cavernous need for a

better law keeper, a better judge, a better prophet, a better priest, a

better king. “Nancy Guthrie

God

“Let us content ourselves with modestly desiring to proceed no further in our inquiries than the

Lord, by the guidance and instruction of his own works,

invites us.”

John Calvin

God