Quotes about Beginning
Greatest theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth, said that 'to clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world'.
- Pete Greig
a view that reflects the profound words of Dr. Gaffin: "Christ is the mediatorial Lord and Savior of redemptive history not only at its end but also from beginning to end.
- Peter Lillback
He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1
- Peter Lillback
The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past—even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.
- Peter Enns
This theme has a lot of moving parts. The bottom line is that when God saves Israel, it is an "act of creation"—or perhaps better, "an act of re-creation." To save is to re-create because to be saved is to start anew.
- Peter Enns
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:1
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:2
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Genesis 1:3
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- Genesis 2:5
And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 4:26
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 5:32
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 6:1