THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD AND GOD
Though it may seem like the world is here to stay and it has been for ages like we are informed in different scientific and theoretical studies, the biblical perspective presents a different reality. The very first chapter of the book of Genesis which is the first book of the bible tells us how the world began.
Gen; 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters”
It is the description of creation and the participation of Gods spirit at work; the spirit of God was awaiting in the silence until God spoke, hovering over the waters and when he did, the spirit brought whatever was spoken into spiritual existence.
Basically, chapter one is the presentation of creation in the spirit; God brought the existence of creation in the spirit when he spoke, everything happened first in the spirit before it crystallized into the physical existence. He spoke and it came to pass.
Hence; Day and night, Earth and sea, Sun, Moon and stars, animals and creatures, Human beings existed first in the spirit before coming into physical reality.
. The bible so explains the creation of man in a special way as Gods presentation that was supposed to be likely equivalent to Heavenly kindness (Human kindness that equates Heavenly kindness). Gen 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis chapter two describes the presentation of creation into physical reality, the reality that had been in the spirit is brought into physical existence.
Here is where man was formed out of soil, then animals were formed after him and every other thing in nature was brought to be guided by him.
THE BEGINNING OF THE WORD AND GOD
John1:1-3 “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
The beginning of God and the word and he himself being the word speculates to Jesus Christ, who is not mentioned in Genesis, but he is there in since the beginning of creation before he came to this world.
Some may say “we don’t see Christ being involved in creation, if he was there since the beginning then where was he? Or what had he been doing?
But the verse 3 of the first chapter of the gospel according to John explains it all when it says “through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.it was the word of God (Christ) that executed the will of God.
The spirit of God awaits in a silence for the word of God, just like Christ himself refers to it…… the helper.
So, God’s obligation is to send the word, the word’s obligation is to execute what it’s sent to do and the holy spirits part is to help the execution.
By the help of the holy spirit ‘the word became flesh’ acquiring a human form and named Jesus Christ or Emmanuel (God among us).
Now even before creation started, the word was there in the beginning and it was with God.
Some may think the word (Christ) was sent to the world to save it, a long time after the world was created and so his existence came after the existence of the world. Verse 10 of the gospel according to John says “He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him” so simply to say the word was the maker of the world.
Now God himself had been with the word he understands the word better and so does the word. The power that works in God it’s the same power that operates within the word, so the word was God and it is still the same today.
When God operates as the father, the word of God operates as the son and the spirit