The very claim that there was a beginning sets the Christian creation narrative in the book of Genesis apart from every worldview – religious or not – that sees the universe in some way or other as everlasting. 

There are many views of our universe.

The Steady state view… not so popular nowadays… held the view that the universe has always existed and that the expanding universe remains unchanged due to a continuous creation of matter.

Then of course there is the Big Bang theory, which is the current prevailing scientific view and is all about a beginning.

Some non-Christian religions see the universe as either or both circular or directionless or constantly being recreated.

However, when Christians state that history has a definite beginning this makes our universe at least in geometric terms somewhat of a straight line.

And that begs the question, what is at either end of the line?

Clearly, for Christians, God the Father, the creator of heaven and earth is at one end of the line. 

But what or who is waiting for us at the other end?

It will still be God, but not some distant or unknowable, unnamed, uninterested deity. 

It is the person of Jesus who waits for all of us when we get to the end of the line.

So what do you know, really know, about him and what He expects when you get to the end of the line?

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