First, talk about great opening line. You cannot do better than the Bible does. In just 10 words, Genesis 1:1 answers the age-old question of the origin of the universe. Even more important, that ...

Some would suggest that the first verse of the first book of the Bible (Genesis 1:1) as its oldest: “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.” Yet there are passages in the ...

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we would ever get past the first chapter. Consider: in ancient Near Eastern societies, it was the king who was thought of as an image of God; it was ...