Genesis
1:1 (NIV)
In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Have you ever been asked by
your children or any small child, “Where did God come from?” You don’t know how to answer other than “I
don’t know”. Yet, you don’t want to
admit to your child that you don’t know something. So how do you answer the question?
The best answer I’ve heard is
simply this-----God is neither like humans nor like any created thing. The
Bible simply assumes that God has always existed. God is the uncreated Creator who created the
universe and everything in it.
If you do not agree with this
simple truth that assumes God’s existence, then prove the Bible wrong. Not to believe the Bible is not proving it
wrong. In fact by believing that there
is no God because you do not have proof where He came from, you are described
as a fool (Psalm 14:1).
The word “created” in the
Hebrew is the combination of two Hebrew words, “bara” and “asa”. Bara is creation out of nothing. Asa is to prepare what is created for use. God created everything from nothing (Hebrews 11:3) and
then prepared creation for us.
Thomas Aquinas
once said that “any error about creation also leads to an error about
God”. What do you think about this? What bothers you about the God creating
something from nothing? Are you able to
accept by faith that God has always existed?
Can you meditate on what God has created and deepen your awe of
Him?
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