Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
This very first verse of the Bible tells us a lot. As I mediate on this verse for a few days, it comes across to my mind that if all of us take this verse seriously and really believe in it, what a different world we will live in today!
The Bible does not seek to argue but always present God’s Word to us. God’s Word is true because God never lies (Numbers 23:19). Furthermore, God’s Word will never pass away (Matthew 24:35). I believe that the Bible is true because God Himself is the Author and this explains why His Message is consistent throughout Man’s history. Although the Bible was written over a period of fifteen hundred years by about forty different authors (Top 10 Reasons the Bible is True), God’s Message remains the same – He is always here with us and is at work to bring about a reconciliation of the initial good fellowship with Him back in the Garden of Eden.
God’s Word is extremely powerful because He created everything which we see today just by mere articulation. Starting with Genesis 1:1, He is the Beginning of all things and He is the Uncreated Being. If we really take Genesis 1:1 for what it is saying literally, you will realize that the theory of evolution has absolutely no grounds to stand on. All the other so-called gods which we know and worship does not even come close because none of these gods ever claim about creating the heavens and the earth. Even though Joseph Smith claims that he is the apostle to the restoration of the “true” biblical Christianity, we soon realize that the LDS church holds to a different belief in the origins of the universe. Basically, they do not believe in Genesis 1:1 literally.
In addition if God’s Word is so powerful, we know that He Himself is even greater than His Word. With this premise, we can be assured that God Himself will protect His True Biblical Christianity to bring about the reconciliation of Mankind back to Him. There is absolutely no need for Joseph Smith, a sinner much like you and me (Romans 3:23) to “restore true biblical Christianity”. Not even God’s Word, the Bible can be removed from this earth (Matthew 24:35, 1 Peter 1:24-25), much less God’s true biblical Christianity. Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and deist, once said that within 100 years of his time, Christianity would be swept away from existence and pass into the obscurity of history. Yet 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used his house and printing press to produce stacks of Bibles. It is now nearly 120 years past his deadline and the Word of God is still going strong.
Folks, we can completely trust the Bible because it is our spiritual food (Matthew 4:4) and we should never allow any other books to replace it.
