Genesis 1 begins with the line, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) With this as the first sentence in the bible, we are introduced to the idea that for God, the beginning and the end has no significance because he is beyond both. He is the creator of time, and nothing stands behind him. If we can believe that God created heaven and earth out of nothing, then everything else is possible.

Through Genesis 1, we are taught that God has a mind, will, and an intellect. This is shown as he says, “Let there be…,” in which he makes decisions and creates each thing with its own essence. When he creates man and woman, he makes them unlike any other creature because we can change our ways or course. He gives

Colossians can be summed up and related to Genesis in three basic ideas. First, God created everything through his word as shown, “God said let there be light.” (Genesis 1:2) In Colossians, we are told that God created the visible and the invisible. In Genesis, we are only told of the visible aspects of the universe that God creates. Last, Colossians is important because we learn that all things were created through him and for him. All were made for his son, Jesus. Jesus is the creator of the universe, and Paul calls him the “firstborn over all creation” (Colossians 1:15) Paul is saying he is above all, and the reason why is because he was here before all things, and is creator of them.

us the power to choose through freewill. Under his evaluation, every other aspect of his

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