Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

‘In the beginning’, says Genesis, God created ‘heaven and earth’, or as some translations render it: ‘the heavens and the earth’ – signifying everything, the whole universe, including the sun, moon and Earth.

Speaking of Jesus Christ, the actual executive creator of the universe, the apostle John says that: ‘In the beginning was the Word (the Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made’ (John 1:1-3).

‘In the beginning’ is simply a phrase that signifies the start of a particular activity or undertaking, indicating, in the present context, a moment in or even before time, possibly remote enough to contain the wildest dreams of geologists -- and even cosmologists.

The precise details of how God originally created time itself, matter and energy, and out of them constructed the material universe, including our solar system and the Earth with its chemical elements, mineral deposits, earth, air and water, we also leave to the endless speculations of science -- as we journey on, possibly millions or hundreds of millions of years, to reach verse two . . .