In The Beiginning...(What Beginning?)

I am now reading a book "The Science Of God" by Gerald L Schroeder. I will be discussing some of its contents in the next few blog entries.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Beginning of what? Most of us will conclude that it is 'In the beginning of time...'

In around 1917, Vesto Slipher, with data based on Einstein's Law Of Relativity, concluded that the Universe was expanding. But refusing to accept Vesto's conclusion, Einstein subjectively changed his equation so as to describe a static Universe instead.

However as more data accumulated indicating that the Universe was indeed expanding, Einstein was regretful. He wrote to fellow Nobel Laureate Max Born, saying that his denial of his own theory (that the Universe was expanding) was "the biggest blunder of my life."

Einstein realised that if the Universe was expanding, getting larger day by day, then what about yesterday, a year ago, a millenium ago, a hundred million years ago? The Universe must be smaller as we go back in time! Until billions of years ago, the Universe must be only a point - a point that marked the beginning of the Universe.

That point -- is Genesis 1:1. Someone must have created that point.

It's God the Eternal.