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God created the universe - out of nothing.

 If you reached this point in our journey through the book of Genesis knowing that much, I will be well pleased, and will feel I have done my job. As we approach the end (of verse 1 and 2) I would like to summarise and make some observations. I would like to do that by placing this book within the context it was written.

 This aim of the book was to tell the recipients both then and now that the creator God of the Universe is the same God who will reveal a promise to first Moses, and then renew that promise with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and then ultimately fulfil it in Christ himself. Deeply embedded in the structure of the Bible in the Old Testament is the idea that trough a succession of people behaving properly they will eventually establish a life journey whose end is the salvation of the sole.

What happens in the New Testament is the salvation idea is developed and revealed even more clearly on an individual basis. Instead of teaching the place of redemption lies within some utopian vision of a nation or a religious system, rather the fulfillment of God’s plan will lie within the responsibility of the individual and his or her own relationship before God. It is extremely important to understand that the God who made this promise of salvation come to pass is the same God as the one who created the world and the whole universe and was here at the beginning of all things.

 We can either choose to believe in an atheistic empty universe that appeared randomly and is cold and indifferent to us. A universe where “there is, no thought or design behind it, no purpose to it, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. Alternatively, we can believe in a universe which God created by his loving will. The birth of the universe described in the bible is one where God loved us so deeply that he became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Emmanuel, God with us.

Genesis 1, vs 1 says God created the world, sounds almost too simple to say, but nevertheless it is true. The opening two verses of the bible are incredibly important because If God really did create the universe, then that statement of basic truth not only establishes somethings. It also eliminates somethings as well.

• It eliminates atheism, because, because it says God exists as creator.
• It eliminates Pantheism which says that God and the creation are one.  Because it puts God above the creation, not part of the creation.
• It eliminates Polytheism (The worship of many Gods) Because it says there is one creator God above all who created the universe. and He is not one among a multiplicity of Gods.
•  It also eliminates materialism because it says matter was created and is not eternal.
•  It eliminates dualism because it says God alone created everything.
•  It eliminated humanism because it says God, not man is the ultimate measure of all things.
•  It also eliminates fatalism, because it says God is a personal creative being whom you can have a meaningful relationship with.

 If God created the universe, then God is sovereign above all these philosophies and ism’s. If you believe the first two verse of Genesis it become easy to believe everything else in the Bible.