Page 15 - Genesis: Book of Beginnings and Science Behind it

God Made Everything that Exists: Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning, God created the heaven and
the earth.

It has been pointed out that if a person accepts Genesis 1:1, there is little chance that they will have
trouble accepting the rest of the Bible. In other words, if they accept that God created all things, then
He controls all things and can do all things.

Further, this one verse refutes all of man’s false philosophies concerning the origin of the earth and its
meaning.

1. It refutes Atheism because it states that God created the universe.
2. It refutes Pantheism (equating God with all the forces and laws of the universe) because God is
transcendent to that which He created.
3. It refutes Polytheism because one God created all things.
4. It refutes Naturalism (the theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all
beings, processes, and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter) because it
states that matter had a beginning.
5. It refutes Dualism because God was alone when He created all things.
6. It refutes Humanism because God, not man, is the ultimate reality.
7. It refutes Evolution because God created all things fully mature; they did not appear by chance.

The fact is that all of these philosophies are just different ways of professing the same unbelief. Each, in
its own way, states that there is no personal, transcendent, eternal God, that ultimate reality is to be
found in the cosmos itself (Romans 1), and that the development of the universe into its present form is
contingent solely on the properties of the components of the universe. In fact, each of these
philosophies embraces the others. (Luke 12:30).

Ironically, in the face of so many anti-theistic philosophies (past and present), the Book of God (Bible)
does not attempt to prove God exists. The opening verse of Genesis just clearly starts with the premise
that there is a God and that he made everything. It was almost as if it was obvious and only a fool would
say there is no God. (Psalm 14:1).

This fact is unique compared to all other religions, books, and systems. They all begin not with God but
with preexisting matter or energy in some form. In the primal chaos, the forces of nature (or the gods
and goddesses personifying them) begin to bring about the cosmic changes that developed the world
into its present form.

In the presence of all of these other systems of thought, Genesis does not attempt to refute or argue
against them. It does not speak in any way to the contradiction with its claim. The Genesis account is
silent in regard to the stark contrast we see today. This could be because the Genesis account was
written before the other systems developed. The others were written later to refute and combat the
accurate account in Genesis.

Col 1:16 “…for in Him (Jesus Christ) all things were created, in the heavens and upon the earth, all things
visible or things invisible, whether thrones or dominions, principalities or powers; all things have been
created through Him and for Him.”

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