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NASB | John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Gen 1:1; Is 9:6] |
Subject: The origin of God and His identity. |
Bible Note: Hi BradK, RE post: "The hard thing for us to grasp is that "it is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us". (See Rom. 11:34-35)" Yes, absolutely! And that was never an intension in any of my posts, and I hope none other on this forum. Indeed the best is in the next verse: Rom 11:36(KJV) “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” I think what got me to meditate on these things is what is said in Jude 1:6: "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." The phrase "but left" really grabbed me, as being on their own accord did they leave. And the Scriptures do not say when this happened but we see the Tempter in the garden with Adam and Eve, so I was deducing that they would have left "their first estate" before the creation of the world. Since the command to Adam was to be fruitful and multiply, which had not happen yet, which in itself may not be correct because we see Adam had other children which may not be mentioned because of importance of lineage, but surely the firstborn of man is usually mentioned in Scripture and would most likely have been mentioned and rightly so Cain is (Gen 4:1). Since the command be fruitful and multiply was given (Gen 1:28), and being still the sixth day, the assertion here is that Adam was physically able to perform this function. So, since Adam and Eve had not yet acquired any offspring the time in the garden before expulsion seems to have been short.(?) Since the abode of the angels was next to the throne of God (Rev 7:11) it is hard to conceive that in such a magnificent realm the angels would find themselves leaving the Throne of God in such a short period of time that it took to create the world, if the angels were created at this time, to the time of the tempting in the garden. Although, possibly through jealousy of seeing the power and creation of God may have seduced them to leave as we see some of the people in the New Testament desiring the power of God after seeing the miracles performed by the apostles (seven sons of Sceva). And so, we meditate on these things and worship our Lord and behold His grace and Majesty. If God wanted us to know what He did before the creation He would have told us for He is not a God of deception but of Truth. And yet in certain words and phrases used by the Holy Spirit in Scripture, God has given us certain impressions that demand our thoughts to be on Him and we see this through much of the poetry of David in the psalms and how he meditated on the Greatness of God using metaphors and similes. To be able to see the pulsing of the cells of a tree pumping water from deep inside the earth to the very tip of the highest branch and bringing life, to the constant orbit of the solar bodies is truly God’s Magnificence. And how much more are we than they! Nothing of the above is, in any way, to be rendered as taking anything away from the Throne of Grace and His purpose in us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I am awake, He is there. I am asleep, He is there. I am alive, He is there. I am dead, He is there. I am alive again for He is there. terrib |