Moses, inspired of God, begins Genesis with four words: “In the beginning, God…” (1:1). “God” is the translation of the Hebrew word, Elohim, which would indicate a plurality. The word is used 35 times in the creation narrative—a reference to the “Godhead”—the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a triune God, sometimes referred to as the Trinity. The gospel of John echoes the phrase, “In the beginning” , saying, “In the beginning was the Word, 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” (John1:1-3) , identifying the co-Creator in verse 13 as Christ, who was “made flesh and dwelt among us.” The triunity of God is seen again when God says, “Ler US make man in OUR image” (Gen. 1:26).
Common sense drives us to the conclusion that if there was no Creator, there would be no creation. A “big bang”, as promoted by some, could not “bang” without something to bang. If nothing existed, could something create itself?
Every effect has a cause. Can we say “It just happened”? Earth is a dot in the Milky Way, which is one galaxy of possibly as many as at least 100 billion or even one septillion (one, followed by 24 zeroes) stars among from 2 ½ million to as many as a trillion galaxies (from the Internet). It would take a radio wave 186,000 miles per second/671 million miles per hour. Vernet Von Braun, the father of the U.S. space program said: “The grandeur of the cosmos serves only to confirm my belief in the certainty of a Creator.” Earth makes a revolution around the sun every 365 day, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45.51 seconds. It has done this consistently for thousands of years. And some actually believe that all of these orderly wonders of nature could just happen without a Creator? Surely we can sanely agree with the psalmist who wrote these words: “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork…” (Psalm 19:1).
Ron Bartanen is a retired minster of the Gospel.