1. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.”
(1) He is creative:
The first sentence of the Bible, 7 words, It is concise and elegant, leaving no room for doubt: God existed from the beginning, and you cannot trace his origins, but the sun, moon, stars, heaven and earth, and everything in existence, are all his creations.
(2) He is different from creation:
“The Spirit of God moved on the water. God said: ‘Let there be light.’ There was light. God saw that the light was Okay. God separated the light from the darkness..."
God "speaks and it comes to pass." He creates through words, showing that there is no cause and effect in time and space between God's being and his creation. relation.
(3) He is eternal and governs the world.
This transcendent God! It's unlimited! Nothing in heaven or on earth can contain Him, but He contains all. Although He transcends creation, He is not separate from creation.
Christ is both the Creator and the Savior, coming to earth through the incarnation.
2. We can also know ourselves:
(1) Since God chose to create us, we are precious in His eyes;
The Bible tells Our God is the Creator, a God with great miraculous power. When God created Adam, He breathed into man's nostrils and made him a living soul.
Man is not just a product of chance, but is designed and wonderfully created by God. Without God, man cannot know or achieve the purpose for which he was designed and created. More importantly, the Bible tells us that humans are created in the image of God.
(2) We are more valuable than animals
"Genesis 1:26-27": "God said, Let us make them in our image, according to our likeness. God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him, to have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds in the air and over the livestock and over all the earth and over everything that creeps on the earth. "Male created female."
The Bible explains that because God is spirit; man was created with spirit. God is the Lord of all things, so man’s creation is different from that of animals, and far superior to them.
God sees human beings as extremely precious and gives human life dignity and value.