1. YOU MUST BELIEVE FROM “THE BEGINNING” January 2, 2011 Knollwood Church of Christ

2. Genesis 1:1 “ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…”

3. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…”

4. Genesis 12:1 “… Get out of your country from your family and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you…” Genesis 12:2-3 “… I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make you name great…And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed…”

5. -OR – -“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…” “From no where for no reason, matter formed from nothing and organized itself into complex molecules according to laws of physics that have no origin, leading to even more complex molecules over millions of years giving rise to life in a way not observed in science which cannot be duplicated” TWO BELIEFS:

6. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…”

7. Acts 17:24 “ God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands…”

8. II Corinthians 4:6 “ For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of the darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”

9. I Peter 3:21 “There is also an antitype which now saves us – baptism – not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ”

10. John 5:47 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” “I think your Moses shall have been a fool…”

11. II Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”