Independent Fundamental Churches affirm Genesis 1:1-2 as the literal account of God's creation of the cosmos. The passage establishes God's absolute creative power and authority. Fundamentalist churches have historically resisted evolutionary theory as contradictory to the plain reading of Scripture and have emphasized God as the direct creator of life and the universe.

The creation account is foundational to fundamentalist theology and ethics. God's creative activity establishes his sovereignty, his authority over creation, and the basis for human moral accountability. Genesis 1 is received as divinely inspired and factually accurate in its testimony to creation.