In the Beginning...

Well, we whave to start someplace, and that someplace

in our chronological study of everything Scriptural is the beginning of everything. And I mean EVERYTHING.

So, what a better way to start things off with the Genesis Creation account and Steven Hawkings' "A Brief History of Time" shedding some light on some of the events at the first days of creation. Well, first we need to clear that up. The question of were they literal twenty four hour days or not.

Actually, they weren't, and there's a scripture in the New Testament that tells of this. It's (2 Pet. 3:8) - "Beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is as a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years as a day."

Secondly, we use current scientific dating methods of the earth, including carbon dating, plate tectonics, strata layering, and ice layering in the arctic to determin the age of the earth, with puts it at relatively 4.2 billion years.

But, back to the original question itself, when did it all begin? Well, according to the original translation and Steven Hawking, there was absolutely nothing but darkness, waters, and God/Christ's Spirit hovering gently over it all. But there was no time yet. Time did not exist. Nothing else did. There were limitless limits.

But waters did, and so did God/Christ. It's important to note that Jesus Christ was also present at this time. Why? (Jn. 1-1-5) - In the beginning was the Word (Jesus). And the Word was with God and was God. The Him were all things created, and without Him not one thing came into being that came into being. In Him is life, and the life is the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overtake it. Secondly, Jesus came into being at the beginning of creation at God's word in the first verses of Genesis, "And God said "Let there be Light! And the darkness shall not overcome it." And Jesus is God's "only BEGOTTEN Son..." (Jn. 3:16). "God created all things through Jesus Christ and hid them for all eternity in fellowship with God, but brought to light." (Ep. 3:9) "And the Lord at the beginning founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of His hands." (Heb. 1:10) "Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the One who is, was, and who is coming, the Almighty." (Rev. 3:14).

And that is when time began, when Light began and Christ was begotten and started the creation process off that first age. Time began to tick, 11 mathematical dimentions were formed. And the universe and God's Kingdom starts to take shape...