Sinclair Ferguson

And he's done that right from the very beginning.

I mean the beginning.

Genesis chapter 1, verse 1.

In the beginning, God...

I wonder if you've felt, as I have in recent years, that while scientists want to explore the nature of the cosmos, there are some scientists in particular who seem to want to get right back to the beginning of things, to the alpha point, and then go over the border of that alpha point in order to prove that there is absolutely nothing there.

And their deep motivation actually is to deny the existence of God.

And, of course, not all scientists have that kind of disposition.

But some of them are, like I remember as a youngster, Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian cosmonaut, going up into space and coming back down and saying, I went there to the edge of the universe, which, of course, he didn't, and there was no God.

You know, if that ever did happen, I think we might be justified in saying, we Christians have been telling you that for centuries.

We've been telling you that when you get to the edge of the cosmos, you will find nothing because God has created all things out of nothing.

And after all, the eternal God is not going to be subject to your little scientific experimentations.

No, the age-old question that philosophers have always asked and scientists still seek to penetrate, why is there something and not nothing, is a question that's answered right in the very first chapter of the Bible, right in the very first verse.

It is because God has revealed himself in creation.

The uncreated God has made all things.

And if you think about it, that inevitably means that everything that God has made reveals him.

If something is created by a creator, then that created thing reveals the creator, just as the work of a great artist reveals himself.

just as art experts can tell you, I see the characteristic signs of this great artist in this particular painting.

And so the Scriptures teach us, if we have eyes to see, then we will recognize that everything in the universe bears this stamp, made by God and revealing Him.

Paul puts it like this in Romans 1, verse 19, God's invisible attributes have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made.

John Calvin puts it, I think, delightfully when he says this,