My blog posts for the summer are going to document our journey through the beginning of Genesis.

I want to focus our attention on the most foundational issues. We will be addressing things that may not be popular or politically correct, but are according to the revealed Word of God.

Since September 11th, anyone who utters the words “ground zero” knows that is the place where the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood before terrorists brought them down. From a theological perspective, however, I would have to say that “ground zero” is Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:1
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Genesis ^{1 1} In the beginning God After “God,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” as a grammatical marker. created the heavens and the earth.

WP-Bible plugin. It is the very foundation of our faith and yet it is being pounded by heavy artillery constantly by atheistic evolutionists. It is my belief that if that foundation is ever totally destroyed, our Christian faith will have nothing left to stand on.

That is why it is so critical for us to go to the very beginning of God’s revelation to us and hear what He has to say. It doesn’t really matter what men may say, what counts is what God himself declares.

I heard a story one time about a group of engineers, geologists, chemists, and other scientists who came together to answer the question: “Where did the universe come from?”They spent hours and hours compiling information, checking it and re-checking it. Finally they loaded all their data into a super computer and waited for the results.The magic moment came when they had fed all their knowledge, theories, hypotheses, and research into the computer. The question was entered, “Where did the universe come from?” They all gathered around, and there was (kind of) a holy hush in the laboratory.  They hit “enter” and immediately lights began to flash. They heard the whirling of relays opening and closing, and finally a typed message appeared on the screen: “SEE GENESIS 1:1GENESIS 1:1
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Genesis ^{1 1} In the beginning God After “God,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” as a grammatical marker. created the heavens and the earth.

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We are going to be focusing a lot on the issue of creation vs. evolution.  It is impossible, in our day and time, to examine the first few chapters of Genesis without addressing that issue.

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