Bible Question: What did God do before He decided to create the world and all that is in it, since He always existed? |
Bible Answer: la flor - That's a fascinating question, but I have no fascinating answer. Neither does Scripture. Scripture reveals that God is eternal. That means He always existed and always will exist. Our finite minds are not equipped fully to grasp any such concept as eternity. Oh, we can perhaps envisage in a pale, fuzzy sort of way a time frame that has no end to it. But can we get a sharp image in our minds of something or someone that had no beginning, that always was? ...... And eternity is not a time frame as we know and measure time. It's a dimension that is incomprehensible to finite minds, and God, in a certain sense, is incomprehensible. We speak of God as being transcendent, as lying beyond the ordinary range of perception. "For who in the skies is comparable to the Lord?" the psalmist asked, "Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord?" [Psalm 89:6]. The answer, of course, is there is none like God, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts," God has said, "nor are your ways My ways." [Isaiah 55:8] ..... But even though, la flor, God is transcendent, eternal, and sovereign, the Bible tells us He loved the world so dearly that He gave His one and only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have life eternal with the eternal God. We don't know what God "did" before he created the universe, but He loves us, this we know, for the Bible tells us so. That's really about all we have the capacity to absorb -- or need to -- that God loves us. ..... What a mighty God! What a wonderful Savior! Soli Deo Gloria! -- To God alone be the glory! --Hank |
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