In the Beginning - God!

Yes, there was a beginning. There have been people here and there, from time to time throughout history, who believed there was no beginning. But in our day science has confirmed it! There was a beginning. They call it "the Big Bang Theory." Of course science doesn't attribute the Big Bang to God. The scientific method, as currently understood by most scientists, seeks only naturalistic explanations. To say there is a spiritual being, God, who in some way caused the big bang would be to go beyond the scientific enterprise. Alright, so be it! Scientists are simply confining their area of study to nature. However, some spokesmen for science today, the so-called "new atheists," go farther. They say that only nature exists. There is nothing beyond "nature" or, to use the term of atheist Carl Sagan, "the cosmos." But notice such a conclusion does not follow from the fact that science chooses to study nature. And the fact that science has been very successful in finding naturalistic explanations of natural events says nothing about whether or not there is anything beyond nature. Science has not buried God! The new atheists are simply declaring they have great faith that science will eventually find naturalistic explanations for everything - not in our lifetime of course but eventually, because only nature exists But isn't this just blind faith? I've come to the conclusion that it takes more blind faith to believe there is no God than to believe there is a God! In fact, king David of Israel said, "The fool says in his heart, "there is no God." Ps 14:1.

What is the Christian Worldview?

In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. Everything was exquisitely designed right from the start. The one who was there in the beginning says it was “very good.” Gen.1: 31.

Anyone who evaluates his handiwork and says it is “very good” has a purpose in mind. God’s purpose in creation was to declare his glory. David king of Israel writes, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Ps.19: 1.

But mankind has chosen not to give God the glory he alone deserves. Man fails to live the way God intended the creature created in his own image to live. “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way” Is. 53: 6.

The result is the carnage and death we see all around us. But God loved the world he created, so he started to draw us back to himself. In his own time he sent his Son Jesus Christ to save his people from their sin. When one embraces that Savior as his Lord he receives the gift of eternal life. He can look forward to his Savior's return as the Lion of Judah – the one to whom the scepter and ruler's staff belong. Everyone will then call him “Lord”... far better to do that now, when doing so will gain one eternal life and joy unspeakable, than to be forced to do so later, after the King has come to judge all mankind.