Creation
“You can never take God by surprise. You can never anticipate him. He always makes the first move. He is always there “in the beginning.” Before man existed, God acted. Before man stirs himself to seek God, God has sought man. In the Bible we do not see man groping after God; we see God reaching after man.” -- John Stott
God started everything, but nothing started God. In the beginning, God created everything from nothing. God is, therefore, the sole creative force from which everything came. This runs contrary to the narrative of our culture, which says everything came from nothing by chance, and is without a doubt, going nowhere. So, there are essentially two narratives we can choose from: 01. Impersonal matter evolved into personal beings or 02. A personal God created everyone and everything.
We believe the universe was conceived in the mind of a personal God. Even the way God created was accomplished through personal means. God the Father created all things through the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures don’t describe the creation event in terms of God building, programming, or drawing the universe; instead, the Bible teaches that God SPOKE it into existence! The very act of Creation was done in personal relationship through relational means: Speaking. We do not live in a lonely, loveless, hollow universe.
We do not live in a lonely, loveless, hollow universe.
The Creation account of Genesis chapter one reverberates with the continual refrain “God said...and it was”. God is personal, and established the Creation by His own authority, speaking it into existence. From the creation onward, God relates to the cosmos as a personal King. To this day, the same personal King upholds all things by the word of His power.
Genesis 1:1-26, Job 12:7-9, Job 33:9, Job 37:5, Psalm 90:2, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:18, Nehemiah 9:6, Jeremiah 10:12, John 1:1-3, Romans 1:20, Colossians 1:15-20, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 11:3, 2 Peter 3:5, Revelation 4:11
