Page 33 - Foundations

Beginnings

The Bible speaks much of the beginning of things. In understanding beginnings we are able to
properly understand both the physical and spiritual world about us. If we do not properly identify
beginnings our beliefs and doctrines will invariably be distorted. During the years in which I have
labored as a minister to the body of Christ as a teacher I have encountered many erroneous ideas
about the beginning of things. Some of the beginnings that God has given us information about so
that we might be established in truth are:

The beginning of the creation of God.

Revelation 3:14
The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this...

The beginning of the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.

The beginning of sin.

I John 3:8
The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.

The beginning of murder and lying.

John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he
speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

There are Bible teachers who are promoting errant doctrines and false understandings of these
beginnings. They have fallen short of rightly dividing the word of God. I frequently have occasion
to converse with members of the body of Christ whose minds have been misled by indiscriminately
feeding upon that which is false. I am not seeking to cast stones at such ones.