Quotes about Genesis

You cannot have a creation without a Creator.

In that ancient Genesis poem, this animating energy is called Spirit. And in that poem, Spirit enters and animates forms, which then create new forms.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

God didn't create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of evil. Science isn't like that. What you explore and find, God did create. It already exists. When you find it, you are discovering something God made. And everything God created is good. God said so in Genesis. He looked around at everything He had made and said, 'It is very good.

If the opening chapters of Genesis portray God as a creative artist, then it only stands to reason that the people he made in his image will also be artists. Art is an imaginative activity, and in the act of creating, we reflect the mind of our Maker.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1—2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21—22) begin with the re-creation of the heavens and the earth. All

Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power, and motion. Genesis 1:1-2 perfectly revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 BC: "In the beginning (time) God created (power) the heaven (space) and the earth (matter)… and the spirit of God moved (motion) upon the face of the waters." The first things God tells man is that he controls all aspects of the universe.

The most important truth Genesis 1—2 offers is that the personal God is the Creator of all and that humans are his special creation with whom he wants a relationship.

Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.