Genesis - beginning of what?

We had a discussion last night that led me to thinking more deeply about Genesis 1 and the creation. Genesis 1 is important because it is a foundation for all the rest of Scripture. What you  do with Genesis 1 determines what you do with the rest of Scripture. If it is not taken literally then neither is the rest of Scripture. God builds upon a foundation of solid rock not sinking sand or chaotic thousands of years.  That is not to say the everything is literal in the Bible such as Jesus being the door.  But Genesis is meant to be the foundation, the beginning so it means what it says.

What is most important about Genesis is that it is the beginning.  The very first thing He says is "In the beginning..."Beginning of what?  We focus mainly on that creation the light and dark, heaven and earth, vegetation, etc. But what was created first was a beginning.  It was the beginning of time.  God is timeless and lives outside of time.  The past and future are present for him.  But the creation was first and most importantly about the creation of time.  There was a beginning for the first time.  When Scripture says that "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8) that means that God is timeless and for Him, not us, one day or a thousand years, they are all the same for him.  But at the creation he created time as we know it.  He took a chaos and brought order.  He created time that was ordered as a 24 hour day, a 7 day week. It has not changed since that first day and will not change until the last day.

Beginnings

This blog is mainly for myself to give me a place to keep track of my thoughts. These thoughts are about how to find closeness to God and holiness in today's world.  These thoughts will be random but hopefully helpful to finding the meaning of holiness in this world before I know it perfectly in the next.