What is Creation?

Christian Beliefs - Part III

I. Matter Cannot be Created Nor Destroyed (Antoine Lavoisier) GOD EXERTED ENERGY

II. What does the word “beginning” mean? (A starting point, origin, source.)

III. Genesis 1:1-2:3. What do you notice about this passage? (“God said” is repeated, many verbs and only one subject: God). In the beginning, God. God was there in the beginning. Now, remember the Trinity. Who are the three members of the Godhead?

Were they there in the beginning? We know that God the Father and God the Son (Jesus) were from John 1:1-2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.”) How do we know that the Word was Jesus, the Son of God? (John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” In other words, the Old Testament prophecies (what we would call “the Word of God”) were fulfilled in Jesus, becoming flesh.) We know that the Father and Son were there in the beginning.

What about the Holy Spirit? Genesis 1:2 answers that for us “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”

IV. Why is this important? We cannot begin to understand the Creation of the universe if we do not believe that God, in all His fullness, was there in the beginning.

This tells us three things that I want us to remember: 1: God spoke the universe into Creation. 2: It was no accident that Creation was created. 3: Everything that is - is being propelled by God as we speak.