Reading • Genesis 1:1-5 & Matthew 1:1-17

This first verse helps us put the rest of the Bible into proper perspective. No one can believe these words because they logically or scientifically reasoned through them. And no human was an eye witness of these events (see what God told Job in Job 38:4). A person accepts these words only by faith (Hebrew 11:3).

Here too the Bible immediately sets itself apart from all other religions. These first words declare that atheism is false because “God is;” pantheism is false because God is independent of His creation; polytheism is false because there is only one God; humanism is false because God is the ultimate reality; and materialism is false because matter had a beginning and it all belongs to God.

The first words of the Bible remind us that there is no being like God, and nothing worthy of our worship like Him.

Pastor George Small

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God Bless,

- Matt