WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE CREATION?
Before starting in at the beginning of Genesis there is a common question which is worth addressing: “What happened before the beginning?”. St. Augustine (354 – 430 AD) in his famous Confessions (his autobiography) quotes an old joke: “What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?”, answer, “Making Hell for people who pry into mysteries like that!” (Confessions, Book XI, Canto 12; Augustine then goes on to have a profound discussions of the nature of time). The Bible does say what was happening before creation (John 1:1-2; John 17:24; John 17:5; Ephesians 1:4; I Peter 1:20; Titus 1:2). Look those passages up if you want to know the Biblical answer! The book “Genesis in Time and Space ” by Francis Schaeffer has a particularly good discussion of the theology of this I will spend the remainder of my time going through the first chapter of Genesis verse by verse in the light of modern science. YES, THERE WAS A BEGINNING Genesis starts: “In the beginning…”. This is an important and
