Bible Teaching

From these considerations, it is a tremendous relief to reflect upon Bible teaching concerning the sublime subject of the Godhead. The opening verse of the sacred book declares in the simplest terms, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'. The reader is confronted with the stupendous fact that God is eternal, self-existent, the Source and Sustainer of all creation. Many passages of Scripture corroborate this teaching. It is written in the Psalms:

'Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.'(Psalm 90.1, 2)

In contrasting the heathen conceptions of God with the true understanding of the matter, Paul declared:

'Though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him'.(1 Corinthians 8.5, 6).

Not out of nothing was the world created, but out of the spirit of God, that limitless power and energy which ceaselessly flows from Him. His spirit is the basis of every existing thing. The Psalmist further explains the fact when he says of God: 'With thee is the foundation of life'. (Psalm 36.9). The theory of spontaneous generation is contrary to all known facts. Far from there being the promise of life in inanimate objects, there is only the prospect of decay, dissolution and a resolving to mother earth. Life can be derived only from that which is already living, and its source can be found only in the Everliving First Cause.