Ber-e-sheet – “In the beginning “
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 1:1-5 New International Version (NIV)
Yom – Hebrew word for “Day”
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day
2 Peter 3:8 (NIV)
Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26-27 (NIV)
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Robert Jastrow
What God created you to be is the most important thing about who you are—and to live into that story, all you have to do is put your faith in Him, and accept the gift of God’s saving grace. Because of Christ, this story is our story.