In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Scripture begins with these ten words. This is the bedrock of the Bible, the first, earliest, and most irreducible foundation for the remaining thirty-one thousand verses of God’s Word. Genesis 1:1 encompasses the totality of Truth. Without it there’s nothing but despair. With it there’s everything we need. If this verse is true, everything in the rest of the Bible is plausible and logically consistent. Genesis 1:1 tells us that God is, that