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GENESIS 1:1 “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”
(KJV, NKJV, NIV, NASB)
GENESIS 1:1 “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.” (KJV, NKJV, NIV, NASB)
Where else would one start a book on memorizing Scripture than the beginning? Add to this, the fact that this passage of Scripture is probably the best-known Scripture in all of the faiths founded by Moses and Abraham, and you have a naturally great place to start.
This passage also answers the question man has asked throughout all of time: ‘Where did we come from?’ God answered the question for us. He and He alone was at the beginning.
I have heard many preachers preach this central doctrine of our faith, “In the beginning, GOD.....” Fundamentally, we believe that God created all that is. We are essentially required to accept this truth simply by faith, because our understanding cannot reach to explain creation....and it is the most logical explanation for how all that we see came to be. As hard as we try, we continue to fail when we propose a different explanation for where we came from.
Theologians call this “first cause.” In the beginning God.... Only God was before all other things...and all things came from Him. Scientists, especially since the era of liberal humanism began in the 1960s, have spent countless hours trying to convince us that they can logically explain how this all began. It is shameful that when scientists are asked what they feel the most significant scientific discovery in modern times has been, more than half of them site Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as the only explanation.
Although no transitional evidence has ever been proved or discovered between species on earth, they still insist that man had to evolve from lower species...apes, fish and proteins. When asked where the proteins came from, their best conclusion is from outer space. Logic defies science to explain original, first cause, because it defies logical explanation. We accept as fact, as does most of thinking humanity, that something so amazingly complex as life like we see it must have come from intelligent design. We know the Designer, primarily because we get to experience a personal relationship with Him.
As previously mentioned, this Scripture is extremely well known and is the easiest place for us to begin our adventure of devoted memorization of the Word. Maybe another reason it is so well known is because it is quoted exactly the same way in every version we researched.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. It won’t take you long repeating this verse to be able to quote it back from memory. You won’t have to work hard to remember the reference either. Genesis 1:1. We couldn’t make it any easier for you to start.
Because this verse takes so little time to commit to memory, spend some quality time meditating on the reality God chose for us to receive. He did not explain how He was able to create it all...He just did.
Maybe take a look at the entire first chapter of Genesis. My favorite creation was light, which He created first. He said, “let there be light,” and there was light. Such revelation sets the stage for all that follows.
He is God and we are not. Anyone who could speak the cosmos into existence has all power, so we can trust Him. When He reveals miracles in the Word, should we be surprised? He created all that we see, so obviously He controls it. What an awesome God we serve. Revel in that thought for a while today.
Questions to consider: What is the history and supposed “facts” of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution? Why do they so starkly disagree with the creation doctrine established in Genesis 1? What should our attitude be toward science and its dispute with Scriptural history of creation? Can the two theories exist simultaneously? Does it take just as much faith to believe evolution as the Genesis account? Are our minds capable of understanding a concept of something being created from nothing? Isn’t that what we are asked to believe regarding a “Big Bang” theory…that something came from nothing? Is there anything wrong with trying to reconcile theories of science with what we read from the Bible?
Other Scriptures to consider: John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word.” John 1:2 “Through him all things were made.” 1 Cor 8:6; Eph 3:9; Colossians 1:16 “For by him were all things created…” Hebrews 1:1-2 “…by whom also he made the worlds.”
(Author’s note: At the end of every chapter, I plan to include an image of both sides of a 3x5 card. One side has the Scripture reference and the other has the verse. I used 3x5’s to memorize important memory items while I was in the Air Force flying fighters and training aircraft as well as at UPS flying big heavies. These were often called “Bold Face” steps in checklists which were required to be memorized so we could perform them immediately, and without reference to a written checklist. I have found them very useful in memorizing Scriptures as well.)
 
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