After completing His creation, God placed Adam and Eve into the Garden of Eden—a beautiful garden that provided for all their needs. There in the garden, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God. They were friends! But when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, that friendship was destroyed. The consequence of their disobedience was death—both physical death and a spiritual separation from God. There was nothing that Adam and Eve could do to restore that relationship; and there is nothing that we are able to do either. But God made provision for us by His mercy and grace to be reconciled to Him.
God will be the focus of this study. Of course we will learn about many other historical characters as we crisscross the pages of Scripture, but God is the Hero of this story. The Bible is His book and it is One Big Story. We will begin our study of this One Big Story in the beginning—the very beginning—when God created man and woman in His own image. God made man in His image so that man would be able to know God and communicate with Him. It is God’s desire to know everyone personally. That’s why He created us!
Society looks at religious beliefs about the origin of the universe as ridiculous and nonsensical. We are often dismissed as ignorant and irrational; and society says that we must keep our secular and sacred lives completely separated! Today, we are going to look at the scientific basis for the claim that there is no God. We will consider several fields of study including: 1) Anthropology, 2) Cosmology, 3) Biology and 4) Astronomy.