Creation of the World
This article provides excerpts from the book “Journey Through the Bible and Your Story”
which will be available on Amazon books later in the summer.
The very first verse in the Bible is Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”. The Hebrew word for create “bara” in Genesis means to make something out of nothing. Using a faith-based literal interpretation of Genesis, 4004 BC is the most commonly cited date for the creation of the world.
A vast number of scientists, astronomers, and cosmologists believe the “Big Bang Theory” was the beginning of our universe with a current estimate of 200 billion trillion stars and planets. (They also put this theory in the context of an understandable “something”.) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Copilot describes it as follows:
“The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a singular, infinitely small and hot point around 13.8 billion years ago. This point exploded, and the universe has been expanding and cooling ever since. It's like the ultimate “started from the bottom, now we're here” story. Galaxies, stars, planets, and ultimately everything came into existence as a result of that initial cosmic event.”
Even in “this theory” these scientists, astronomers, and cosmologists cannot explain or even theorize how nothing became something. Where did that “something” of a singular, infinitely small and hot point come from? Their theory does not allow for “bara”.
The magnitude and order of creation continue to amaze scientists. Each created thing breaks down further and further into more parts. The human body is made up of atoms and molecules which are further broken down into electrons and nucleus which contain protons and neutrons. (Secularists promote that evolution was responsible for putting all these submicroscopic elements together in the proper order to make humans with amazing brains; they rationalize that “millions, even billions, of years of evolving” provide the answer.)
The mystery of where God came from is not answerable in our human minds. All we know from the Bible is that He is the eternal “I AM” who has always existed.
The reality of Creation should bring us to our knees at the awesome greatness of this eternal God.
