Of course, believing in God has to be the beginning ...yet, many struggle with the genuineness of that also. What authority is used and believed??

Gilbert K. Chesterton was born in the mid-1800's.  We think we have so much advanced knowledge today, yet back then, he realized this in reference to those promoting evolutionary concepts instead of the Bible:  "It is one thing to describe what doesn't exist, it is another to discover a rhinoceros (I say platypus) does exist, then take pleasure in the fact that it looks as if it doesn't."

He also said, in the book Orthodoxy, "If a man says that extinction is better than existence or that blank existence is better than variety and adventure, then he is not one of the ordinary people to whom I am talking ...If a man prefers nothing, I can give him nothing."   

And it was God's Creation which shows variety and adventure to him ...not the billions of years where others profess there was nothing but (cellular) division. Yet, if anyone should propose there was a rapid increase in division ...I would be inclined to believe that to be true today, as so many are dividing on this thought.

Don't let the biggest lie ...be the one you tell yourself. Though, even you cannot claim the lie to be your own. It is just a part of the lie that always tries to discount the truth about God.

Discount has more than one meaning.  It can mean a great deal, as it cost less ...and we readily accept that.  Or we can have an opposite response, of rejecting it ...as in, discounting or rejecting something as true.  So, if we discount the truth about Jesus, perhaps it is because we don't realize the cost of what happened at Calvary.