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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: why did god create the universe? |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Hank, Very good point, sir. It had crossed my mind to provide that definition. However, the idea must have gone on across -- a very short distance -- without lodging itself sufficiently to result in some sort of action. Anyway, I'll do my best. God's glory is the splendor and brightness of the full display of His revealed attributes. Wayne Grudem, in his Systematic Theology, states that "God's glory is something that belongs to Him alone and is the appropriate outward expression of His own excellence." John Piper wrote, "God would be unrighteous (just as we would) if He valued anything more than what is supremely valuable. If He did not take infinite delight in the worth of His own glory He would be unrighteous. For it is right to take delight in a person in proportion to the excellence of that person's glory." And elsewhere, "God is the one Being in the entire universe for whom self-centeredness, or the pursuit of His own glory, is the ultimately loving act." I suppose the most incredible truth of Scripture is that God created us to be mirrors of His glory. We are "image bearers of God." But I suppose that that discussion should be the topic of another day. In Him, Doc |