Verse of plausibiblty

Twice last week i referenced the passage of the bible that helps me make sense of the rest.

The passage is Genesis 1:1-4a... In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good...

These few sentences set up the rest of the Bible.

Simply, God exists and has from the dawn of time, which He ushered in. God is alive, active and gets involved in the events of the world, which He created by His spoken word. In doing so, God created order from chaos and deemed what He had made as good.

I think we should wrestle with the first few words of the bible.

If we do, and can find them to be believable, then that will shape the way you encounter whatever is written after.

Why?

Because IF God created the world and the order within it, then He can (at times) move beyond those normalities in what we would call miracles. IF He created life then He can restore life. Or heal the sick. Or part the Sea.

IF... Genesis 1:1-4a can be a passage that you can come to terms with then the rest of the bible, at best, becomes plausible.