Suppose someone were to ask you to pick two verses to anchor your life around. What would you choose?
In the Bible, there are two verses that change everything. Without them there would be no Christians, no faith, and no hope.
These two verses are Genesis 1:1 and Matthew 28:6.
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” It tells about the beginning of everything, the sun, the moon, and the stars. It introduces us to “God.” It also tells us about time itself, “In the beginning.”
As much as people attack the stories of the Bible, this verse is the one they would most like to exclude. Since this verse is true then nothing else is impossible. If God created the heavens and the earth, why would you doubt that he can heal a blind man or even cause a dead man to get up from the grave? Genesis 1:1 is only 10 words, but it is the foundation for every other miracle in the Bible.
The second verse, Matthew 28:6, tells us about the fundamental belief in Christianity. When the disciples came hunting for the dead body of Jesus, the angel told them, “He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.”
The angel could not show them the dead body. All they could do was show them the place where the body had laid. The enemies of Christ would have loved nothing better than to stop this new faith before it began. It would have been easy. All they needed to do was to show the followers, not the place where the body was, but rather the body itself. The fact that Christianity grew from here, tells us they could not show the body. They could not because Jesus was no longer dead.
On these two verses hangs all the reason for God and Christianity. This little note is too short to cover everything in these verses, but they would be a great starting point for your own study.
Lonnie Davis.