“In the Beginning”

The Universe began, and it was caused by God’s command.

“Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a beginning at the Big Bang.”
- Stephen Hawking

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:1

The Cosmological Argument

  1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

  2. The universe began to exist.

  3. Therefore, the universe has a cause.

The “Uncaused Cause” Must Be…

  1. Eternal: Psalm 90:2; Isaiah 40:28; 1 Timothy 1:17; Romans 16:26; John 1:1.

  2. Omnipresent: Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 139:7-10; 1 Kings 8:27; Proverbs 15:3.

  3. All-Powerful: Jeremiah 32:17; Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:17; Job 37:23.

  4. Immaterial (Spiritual): Genesis 1:2; John 4:24; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17.

The Universe began with human life in mind.

3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
- Hebrews 1:3, NIV

“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.”
- Fred Hoyle, Cosmologist

God made the Universe from nothing, and He can make great things from our lives too.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- John 1:1-3

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
- 2 Corinthians 5:17