Sometimes when I contemplate the Christian
faith I like to step back and try to get a grasp of the big picture. In
philosophy and even in our own personal lives we ask the big questions: “Why I
am I here?” “What is the meaning of life?”
I’ve been thinking about these things recently as I a write a book and
as I teach a series on the Christian World View in my church. I thought I would
take some of these ideas and condense them for my readers. So let’s begin at
the beginning.
In the beginning, before time began and
before anything had been created, what was there? The Bible tells us that “In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1). In the
beginning nothing existed except God. We learn from Scripture that is Trinity,
that is, He is three persons in one Godhead.
There is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Christians
believe that this is not just a religious teaching but it is the truth about
the way things actually are.
We also know from
Scripture that there was love, fellowship and communication among the persons
of the Godhead. This is important because the question often comes up among
modern thinkers about where love comes from, or why we enjoy fellowship with
one another as human beings. The Christian answer is that these traits don’t
come from evolution nor are they just figments of our imagination or neural
responses to stimuli. According to the Bible, we were made in the image of God
and since God has love, He communicates and is a fellowshipping being, it makes
sense that we would also have those traits.
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