4/01/19

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The first fact of the Bible is the beginning of theological understanding and is an absolute to any critical knowledge of God.  The requirement to a right relationship with God is stated in Hebrews 11:6.  Without believing that God is creator there is no believing in the “is” of God.  He must be before time, space, and all that is.  To believe this is to believe in the very essence of God.

Genesis 2:17 – but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

God has given the law.  As creator God reigns over His creation.  As the reigning monarch He can and has said to His creation “You shall not.”  He has the authority to say it and the power to enforce it.  When we receive God as creator we admit His power and His authority.  When our faith rests in Christ we resent neither His power nor authority.  “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done”.

John 1:18 –  No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

God is known only and fully through Jesus Christ.  When I say this I am saying there is no other way to know God but through the Savior.  And I am also saying that through the Savior there is nothing more to be done than what is revealed in Him.

II Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 13.