Geoffrey's Notebook

While going over this question in preparation for a local youth meeting, my son already had his own answer:   It is actually that simple. Creation has to stop at some point. If everything has to have a beginning, then there must be something before the beginning in order to begin everything else. Otherwise, once we find out who created God we have to ask who created that one? And at some point, we run into the real God who has always existed. Before there was a beginning of heavens and earth being created (Gen. 1:1) there was God. And He began all of creation:  John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things received being through him, and without him not one thing received being which has received being.  Hebrews 11:3 By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear. 

And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-tress yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so (Genesis 1:11). In the creation account of Genesis 1, there is also a spiritual aspect to the history being described. Just as the earth had it's new creation physically, so we also have spiritually entered into the new creation: So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new (2nd Corinthians 5:17). In comparing our experience with Genesis 1, we can learn about this new creation that we've been brought into. For example, we already know the meaning of day 1 from 2nd Corinthians 4:6: Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. When Paul was saved, the light had shown all around and e...