IN THE BEGINNING GOD

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2.

Read on and you will find that what the scientists of today are searching for. They are looking frantically for the source of that elusive first cell. If you do not believe in the eternal God, who is without beginning and without end, you will never find that first cell, the basic foundation unit of all life. Two of the Trinity are mentioned right here in the first verse of the Bible. God was already in existence. He is the source of all that exists.

The unnamed third being of the Trinity is revealed by John the apostle in his Gospel account. “In the beginning was the Word, (Christ,) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.“ John 1:1-4. These three, God the Father, God the Spirit, and God the Son, are referred to as one which we know as the Holy Trinity, which words never appear in the Bible. They represent absolute unity. Jesus in his prayer, John 17, with his Father, said “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one, as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.” John 17:20-22.

How can mankind so stumble over the fact of the Father, the Son and the Spirit of the Trinity, and still accept the statement that God made mankind both male and female and said, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24. In Eden there was complete unity of purpose, and they became “one flesh.” Man thinks in terms of material, physical man. God is spirit and the Trinity is spirit, not material. It was, and is, God’s wish that the unity of a man and wife be as strong as is the unity of Father, Son and the Spirit. Some things can become so totally blended, even in the physical, that they can never be separated back to their origins. When it comes to the spiritual, we are out of our element and can never hope to understand while we are still in this body. That part of man that is eternal is his spirit. It was of man that God said, “let us make man in our own image.” I particularly appreciate the words of Matthew Henry who wrote, “The soul was not made of the earth, as the body: pity then that it should cleave to the earth, and mind earthly things.” Then he added, “Fools despise their own souls, by caring for their bodies before their souls.” In the words of David, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Psalm 14:1.

We need look no further for the source of that first cell, than Genesis 1:1. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”