I really like how the first chapter of my book aligns with the first chapter in God’s Book. I’m sure that was by design.  This foundational belief, that God created everything in an instant, over a literal 6-day week, tells you all you need to know.  It tells you how you got here, and that your life has purpose, because an almighty God created you.  He didn’t have to create us, so the fact that He did tells us something.  This is why Genesis is the most attacked book in the Bible from the unbelieving world.  If they can diminish, discredit, or destroy Genesis, they know you will be ripe to believe anything they say.  That is what the darkness really wants. 

If someone can convince you that the very first book of the Bible is wrong, then they can convince you the rest of it is wrong too.  If they can convince you that the book is all just a bunch of children’s stories and fables, then they can convince you evolution is real and that you have no worth.  If they can convince you that God didn’t create us, then you won’t have to feel obligated to live up to His standards.  If there is no creator God, there is no higher authority mankind is accountable to.  If there’s no problem, there’s no need for a solution. Get it now? 

It’s so much deeper than a simple disagreement on what a book says.  It’s a spiritual darkness that has to try and make sure you don’t see the light of truth.  In Genesis 1:3 we learn that there was light before there was the sun. The light was day 1, but the sun didn’t exist until day 4.  Why?  Because God is light. The brightest, most radiant light in the world.  This light, is how God is described in the Old Testament when Israel had a temple that God resided in. This is the light the darkness doesn’t want you to see.   

Everything that goes against the light is darkness.  A tiny little flame can extinguish the dark, but the darkness can never extinguish the light.  This is not some fancy philosophical statement, this is truth.    

This is why the book of Genesis and the creation story are so dangerous to those living in the dark.  The light exposes their lies and circular reasoning. This is also why God put Genesis as the first book.  It is the foundational piece to the Bible.  Get Genesis right, and the rest of the Bible makes a lot more sense.   Get it wrong, and you’ll have to jump through hoops trying to explain the rest of it. 

Genesis is the most important historical book ever written.  It tells us about the foundation of all things. In Genesis we learn about matter, energy, life, marriage, family, society, morality, Law, even the 7-day week. 

It is also a book of firsts:  The first human beings, the first marriage, birth, death, lie, trial, murder, first self-defense, ownership of property, natural death, rainfall, boat, nations formed, cities built, calendar established, first example of God’s grace, and on and on.  Genesis has everything we need to know about the person of God and man’s relationship to Him.

Are you starting to see why the world wants to make sure you don’t believe the book of Genesis is truth?  Look past the people pushing the evolution nonsense.  It’s a spiritual issue.  Normal people would not care so much about what we Christians believe is truth.  Why would anyone care what we believe?  Our beliefs don’t impede their lives in any way.  We aren’t killing people who disagree, or shaming those who don’t believe as we do.  Bible believing folk are supposed to be humble and meek, the Bible doesn’t teach hate or violence. 

The only logical answer you can come up with as to why normal people hate the truth, and those that spread it, is Satan.  We will get into his antics later, but I need to make sure one thing is perfectly clear now.  Before Satan came into the picture in Genesis chapter 3; the world God created, and the people He created, were perfect.

Adam and Eve didn’t have to plow the ground or pull weeds from the garden.  Everything they needed to eat was always readily available without having to work for it.  The animals all got along, they were tame, and you could have a bear as a pet if you wanted to.  A mist from the ground watered all the vegetation automatically. There was an additional layer of water above the atmosphere of our planet, that somehow made this place like a greenhouse too.  It was heaven on earth.

Even better; there was no fear, no stress, no pain, no hate, no lies, no sorrow and definitely no death before evil came around.  The place was perfect.   Adam and Eve’s bodies were perfect and built to never die or wear out.  But, that’s not the best part.  The best part, was that Adam and Eve could walk and talk with God.  They weren’t separated from Him like we are today. 

All it takes is a second to look around, and you can easily tell  that the world is far from a perfect place now.  Almost everything is the opposite of the way God created it.

Something had to have happened between what we read about in Genesis chapters 1 & 2, and our current day.  Something that made this place a living hell on earth at times.  I keep asking you guys to pay attention to why unbelievers hate and try to discredit Genesis so much.  Here is your first major reason:  They are on the same team as the guy the Bible says made this mess.  Their boss let our home go to hell and fall into disarray.  Their false teachers have more students than the Bible teacher does. There are far more unbelievers in the world than there are believers. What happened?

Don’t give up hope!  Keep reading. The God who created it all, knew evil was coming, and He already has a plan to fix it all.