Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”  NASU

As we begin 2025, I firmly believe we should start at the beginning and move forward from a solid and sure foundation.  Too often, we try to plug in somewhere rather than begin at the beginning. 

• Some attempt to begin in the middle, have no history or foundation for the past, fail to understand the present, and miss the future. 
• Some want to go to the end and see how it turns out, but they have no foundation, experience, or history to lead them to that point of ultimate culmination. 
• I believe that it is imperative that we ‘begin at the beginning’ and lay a proper foundation that is anchored in God’s Truth.

The pertinent question is – “How did it all begin?”   Genesis Chapter One, Verse One tells us that it began with GOD!   God, the creator, created the ‘heavens and the earth.’  The first twelve chapters of the Book of Genesis are foundationally critical to understanding the rest of the Old Testament and any of the New. 

Genesis could rightly be called the ‘seed book’ of the Bible.  Knowing that God is systematic and orderly in His presentation and progression enables us to believe His report and record easily.  God has given us an explicit guide or basis of information at the beginning of the most important book we will ever read.

If you begin with a ‘Big Bang,’ you will not see God as the creator.  Why?  Because you are a believer in ‘random chance.’ That is your explanation for the entirety of creation and man’s existence. 

• For me, that would be like taking a few railroad carloads of printer type, a shovel, scooping them up, throwing them into the air, and expecting a novel of epic proportions to come forth. 
• It would be like taking the pieces of a watch and placing them in a bag, shaking them up, and expecting a finely tuned precision timepiece to be the result. 

Scientists cannot explain the complexities of man’s nervous system with the miles of blood vessels, nerves, etc.  Design implies a designer, and it would take far more ‘faith’ for me to believe the theory of evolution, the Big Bang, or some other theory other than “In the beginning God created….”

We will arrive at the wrong destination if we begin at the wrong premise.  If we start anywhere other than “In the beginning God…”  We begin wrong and will come to an incorrect conclusion.  Therefore, if you want me to explain everything about God, you ask the wrong person.  I do not believe you will ever find a human who can fill that role. 

However, allow me to turn the tables. You explain the complexities of the human body, the universe, its operation, and life in general. I am sorry I asked a challenging question, and I contend that you can only explain what you believe based on what you have been taught and your willingness or unwillingness to consider the biblical account. 

Your scientific evidence is not evidence; it is theoretical postulations from people such as Charles Darwin and others. You ignore the holes in the theories and still cling to them because it makes you feel secure not having to acknowledge the existence and power of God because that would make you accountable to Him.  

When I say ‘you,’ I am not implying that everyone who reads or hears this disbelieves the biblical record.  I believe and hope that most of you are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, as we begin this New Year, let us commit to going back to the beginning and begin there with God as the starting point of our life.   It does not matter where you are on your journey from the cradle to the grave; going back to review the foundation is never a bad thing.

May God be with you as you go through your day!