Genesis

 Here I give you the first chapter of my book on Genesis.  If you like it, you can get the whole book at www.amazon.com.  Go to the Amazon link and search for Genesis by Moody Roberts.  I believe you will find it to be a blessing.

Genesis

Chapter 1

CREATION

The title of this book lets us know right off what it is about. Genesis is a translation from a Hebrew word that means "nativity; figuratively nature: - generation, nature (-ral)." Thus we understand it is a book of the beginnings. We can find a seed plot for almost every doctrine taught in the Bible right here in this book of beginnings.

Can you think of a time when there was not any people, no sun nor moon, no stars, no space, no light, no dark, no angels, and no devil? That is a time when there was nothing. In the day of creation there was nothing to start with. In all this nothingness there was One Being, and He was All. If there was nothing, where did God dwell? This is a question the natural mind could never answer, but God has. See Isa_57:15 "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."

When there was nothing but eternity God dwelt there, and nothing else existed. Here is the beginning of the doctrine of God. Here is also a great dilemma for evolutionists. Evolution has to have something to evolve from even if that something is nothing but a some sort of glob.

There is the question, does God even exist? There are those who say that He does not exist.  His own creation, however, supports His existence. Note Romans 1:20, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” The invisible things of this verse are His eternal power and Godhead. Paul, in this verse, declares that those things are clearly seen. In other words creation itself testifies to God's existence. In addition to that, fulfilled prophecies also support His existence. His existence is also corroborated by His spoken word. The Bible is a collection of sixty-six books. These books were penned by about 40 authors over a period of about sixteen centuries; yet they are in complete agreement.

This shows us right from the beginning that the theory of evolution is false. Evolution has to have something to evolve from. There was no sun to revolve on its axis until the earth broke off from it. There was no amoeba in the sea from which life could evolve: there was no sea for the amoeba.

It is a fact that in eternity God just spoke into existence the heavens and the earth all in some sort of glob. He does not describe the heavens for us, but He does say that the earth was without form and void. In verse one God created the materials out of which He would form His creation. The earth was covered with darkness. There are some things at this point which we can see having been given being.

There is an earth even though it is without form which God had brought out of chaos. There is darkness, and there are deep waters.  Verse 2 tells us that the Spirit of God moved (or brooded) over the waters. This is our first mention of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

Then we read, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” This was not a light bearer like the sun; it was some sort of diffusion of light that divided the light from the darkness. This was the first day. Then day after day God created something new The second day He created the heaven out of the waters. The third day He caused the dry land to come up out of the waters and called it earth. The waters were called seas. God caused that the earth would bring forth grass, herbs, and trees. Each of these were also equipped to reproduce themselves. On the fourth day of creation God made the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the fifth day God created all the life that dwelt in the seas and in the air. These too were equipped to reproduce themselves. God even commanded them to reproduce themselves. On the sixth day God made all earth life, animals and creeping things.

Then on that sixth day He climaxed His creation by making man in the image of God to be the god of this world or to rule over everything in this world. He was made under law. Man, as god of this world, having dominion over everything, is the first mention of God's kingdom.

See one other thing in this chapter concerning the beginning of things. That is time. In eternity there was no such thing as time. The very first words here are "in the beginning". The beginning of what? Eternity has no beginning, so it cannot mean the beginning of eternity.

What else then can it be except the beginning of time. Thus we see the days of creation.

Certain attributes of Deity are also seen in this chapter. First there is eternity. We have seen that God inhabited eternity. Omnipotence is seen in His power to simply by speaking bring into existence something that did not exist. We can also see His wisdom in the order of creation.

For instance the earth and all other creation was created before man so that man would have a home and sustenance. His omnipotence is seen in His designing and making creation. His love is seen in His providing for man.

In verses 28-31 we have God's first Covenant. God stipulated that Adam and Eve were to replenish the earth, have dominion over it, eat its herbs and fruits, and refrain from eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He stipulated that the day they would eat of that tree would be the day they would die. This is the first mention of death.