“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
The Holy Scriptures don’t start with an argument for the existence of God. They simply declare the obvious truth. God is the Beginning of life, the Giver of life, the Creator. From nothing, He spoke everything into existence.
And, if you think about it, if these few words were the beginning and the end of the Bible, if the entire Biblical record consisted of only, “In the beginning God …” (Genesis 1:1), wouldn’t that be enough? Because He is the Creator and Giver of life, He deserves our absolute reverence and worship.
Now, consider the name, God. In the Hebrew language, that’s Elohim. Curiously, this name in not singular, but plural. El is singular. Elohim is plural. It might literally be translated, “In the beginning Gods…” We know that “the Lord our God, the Lord is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4). The plural, Elohim, must therefore be a reference to the Holy Trinity.
The New Testament gives evidence of this reality. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created… The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1–3, 14). The Word, Jesus, is credited with creation.
Paul, in one of his prison epistles, repeats this truth. “He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him” (Colossians 1:15–16).
Do we find Jesus in the first chapter? Yep, He’s right there in the first verse.
“… think on these things” (Philippians 4:8, KJV).
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