“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1📕
“Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.’” Genesis 1:26📕
“God is love.” 1 John 4:8📕
Excerpts from Francis Schaeffer’s Genesis in Space and Time
“The universe had a personal beginning — a personal beginning on the high order of the Trinity. That is, before ‘in the beginning’ the personal was already there. Love and thought and communication existed prior to the creation of the heavens and the earth. Modern man is deeply plagued by the question ‘Where do love and communication come from?’” (p.21)
“The historic Christian position concerning Genesis 1:1 is the only one which can be substantiated, the only one which is fair and adequate to the whole thrust of Scripture. ‘In the beginning’ is a technical term stating the fact that at this particular point of sequence there is a creation ex nihilo — a creation out of nothing. All that is, except for God himself who already has been, now comes into existence. Before this there was a personal existence — love and communication. Prior to the material universe (whether we think of it as mass or energy), prior to the creation of all else, there is love and communication. This means that love and communication are intrinsic. And hence, when modern man screams for love and communication (as he so frequently does), Christians have an answer: There is value to love and value to communication because it is rooted into what intrinsically always has been.“ (p.24)
— Francis A. Schaeffer
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