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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: Doing Away with Childish Things |
Bible Note: A Meditation: It’s wonderful how the truths we learn of God’s Word as a child stay with us and don’t change. They just get deeper. As a child we could wade happily in the refreshing truths of God’s Word. As an adult we can joyfully swim in them. One particular truth I have in mind right now is the fact that God created the heavens and the earth. I memorized Gen. 1:1 as a child. (A very important verse. Mothers, teach it to your kids!) And God has used that truth to save me from the meaningless life that comes from believing the lie of evolution. But, as I said, my childhood understanding of creation was true, although some misconceptions had to be corrected along my journey to manhood. The first misconception was that, like man, God started with something to make the universe. Then it was pointed out me in Psalms that God started with nothing. He just commanded something to be and it was. What a mighty God! It was at that time I learned a theological four-letter word (besides love)- fiat (pronounced - fee-ot). It’s a fancy Latin word that means command. God created by fiat out of nothing. Another childhood misunderstanding was put away when I learned that the creation of the heavens and the earth was part of God’s overall plan. As a child I though of a carpenter making something. After he’s done making whatever he makes, it’s put somewhere and the carpenter forgets about it and makes something else. But with God, I’ve learned, creation was only the beginning of his plan, “In the beginning...”. In my mind I separated--no, rather I never connected creation to redemption as part of God’s plan. “...God, who created all things; in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 3: 9,10) Since the church is the community of the redeemed, this verse clearly unites the two major themes of the Bible, creation and redemption in the purpose of God. Praise God for his wonderful works! Lionstrong |
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