LIVING STONES

IN THE BEGINNING is that something came into being out of nothing and then exploded into something of complexity and beauty.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

Lloyd Pulley, Senior Pastor

Some attempt to compare this majestic account with befuddled and silly ancient mythologies. But the Bible is more related to a modern view of the universe which consists of time, space, and matter as expressed in this verse. And God, of course, is the Conductor and Creator of this symphony of existence and life. If you can accept this first verse, acknowledging that there is a Designer of the cosmos who wrote the incredible digital code of life, the rest of the Bible is easy. The alternative position

It is simple logic involving the law of cause and effect! The universe had a beginning and therefore had a cause. But one may say, “What caused God?” The Hebrew Scriptures reveal He never had a beginning and thus there is no attempt to answer from where God came. He always was! He simply is: “I Am Who I Am.” So with superior knowledge, God in the Bible can describe the “circle of the earth” (Isaiah 40:22) long before it was proven a sphere. God reveals the law of gravity long before people comprehended it: “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing” (Job 26:7). And being outside of time and faster than light, God knows all. After all, He spoke it! Read your Bible—you’ll be amazed!