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In Genesis 1, we read: | In Genesis 1, we read: | ||
:''In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. | :''In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... 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. <ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ge 1:1, 3–5.</ref> | ||
God created the universe out of nothing. The universe is not eternal. It had a beginning. Time began with the creation of the universe. "In the beginning" was when time came into existence. "And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day." - that was the beginning of time. There were no "days" prior to that. | God created the universe out of nothing. The universe is not eternal. It had a beginning. Time began with the creation of the universe. "In the beginning" was when time came into existence. "And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day." - that was the beginning of time. There were no "days" prior to that. | ||
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The world is temporal and changing, and from it we can see that there must be an eternal and unchanging being. “Behold the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary.” However, “whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not, and this it is, to change and vary. They proclaim also, that they made not themselves”.<ref>Norman L. Geisler, “Augustine,” Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999), 61.</ref> | The world is temporal and changing, and from it we can see that there must be an eternal and unchanging being. “Behold the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary.” However, “whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not, and this it is, to change and vary. They proclaim also, that they made not themselves”.<ref>Norman L. Geisler, “Augustine,” Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999), 61.</ref> | ||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||