“𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝙸𝚜 𝙼𝚢 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚢 𝙶𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚢”
The Bible begins with the words “in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
But what was there before this “beginning”? And why did God create all of this? Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord has shed light on these questions.
For example, He gave us the record of a vision in which Abraham saw our existence as spirits “before the world was” (see Abraham 3:22–28).
The Lord also gave us an inspired translation or revision of the first six chapters of Genesis, called the book of Moses—which doesn’t begin with “in the beginning.”
Instead, it begins with an experience Moses had that provides some context for the well-known Creation story.
Together, these latter-day scriptures are a good place to start our study of the Old Testament because they address some fundamental questions that can frame our reading:
Who is God?
Who are we?
What is God’s work, and what is our place in it?
The opening chapters of Genesis could be seen as the Lord’s response to Moses’s request: “Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the heavens” (Moses 1:36).
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