Where Did Everything Come From?
March 21, 2023
Katherine Schultz
This post contains a biblical perspective on God as creator of everything. It is from a series of personal perspectives on the individual questions of the 3-D Worldview Survey.
If I’m honest…
If I’m honest, I have to admit that I can get pulled into the modernist view of where everything started. It’s so tempting just to let the question slide by without trying to settle on an answer in my own mind. Did God do it? How? When? How long ago? How long did it take?
I’m not at all in doubt about certain things: I fully believe in the historic person Adam, and his wife Eve. I fully embrace the theology of original sin, that I was born a sinner, and that I chose to stay in that state for the first 16 years of my life. And I know that the only hope for me, and everyone else who will believe, is grace by faith in Jesus Christ, who died and rose again from the dead to conquer sin and death. For me. For you. For everyone who will trust in him.
But when it comes to the question of origins, of where everything came from, I sometimes waffle. I don’t actually doubt God created everything. I just have a hard time going public about it. So here’s my chance, right?
The Truth is…
The truth is, I wasn’t there in the beginning. But God was. And he told us about it through Genesis, and repeated it through the gospel of John:
“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 came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-4).
It’s not a scientific argument, it’s eyewitness testimony. Everything that “came into being” did so because of God, specifically Jesus.
Yes, there are questions about how, when, how long, and all of that. And I’ll keep digging into those questions, trying to understand how science, history, and theology work together to help me understand the truth.
For now, I have to decide if the eye witness is reliable. And for me, that’s the easy part. I have put my trust in him for my future. It seems to make sense that I put my trust in him to explain the past. For now, the basic question is settled. God created all that has ever been, all that is, all that will ever be.
And for now, the most straightforward answer to the other questions–how, how long ago, how long did it take–seems best answered by the eyewitness, too. God did it by speaking everything into existence. God did it “in the beginning.” And God did it in six days.
And that forms one of the foundation points of my worldview.
What about you?
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