[I am not a seminary trained preacher or teacher of God's word. I have no degrees in religious studies, or as a Doctor of Divinity. I do not know or understand the Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic languages -- and certainly not in the form or styles used at the time of the writing down of the sixty-six canonical Bible texts. I seldom delve into "original" language studies to understand God's word; using instead the Bible to prove the meaning of the Bible as taught in Isaiah 28:10;13: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little... the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."
That said, the following are a collection of verses and possible conclusions -- not declared dogmatically by me -- but inviting consideration based upon inspiration during study and the "rabbit tracks" run thereafter. More can follow, in the infinitude of revelation available to us from what the Lord God has revealed to us for our necessary instruction already in His word (as contained pure in the King James Bible for English speaking people.)]
In the BEGINNING
Genesis 1:1 KJV
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(Not to add or subtract, or to change meaning, the sentence can literally be understood:
God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning.
(IN the beginning/ in the BEGINNING)
(Heaven and earth created in BEGINNING… suggests heaven and earth created in uncreated Beginning. First creations are heaven and earth. We understand the beginning is WHEN it happened. But in English “in” can also answer WHERE the creation took place.)
Further consideration (as above): since God created IN the BEGINNING, the BEGINNING pre-existed creation and is uncreated.
Then we read:
John 1:1 KJV
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
In the BEGINNING was the Word.
The Word was with God.
The Word was God.
Does logic permit us to understand there that the BEGINNING was with God?
So the BEGINNING WAS before creation, and was with God and was God. (logically derived)
And logic is confirmed by TRUTH:
Revelation 1:8 KJV
[8] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 22:13 KJV
[13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
So we know “the BEGINNING” is in God and is God.
Then look:
John 1:3 KJV
[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Which agree with:
Genesis 1:1 KJV
[1] In the BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth.
(AND also agrees with — from further on in John 1:
John 1:10 KJV He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.)
And all of this is summarized and further confirmed here:
Colossians 1:16-17 KJV
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
For further consideration, discussion and citation of scriptural truth (proposed in advance as true):
He exists.
He existed before creation.
He exists in the midst of His creation.
Some of His creation receives Him.
He makes His home with those who receive Him.
There are “many” who do not receive Him, who don’t do His works, who are not known by Him and left outside His presence at the last.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Our father, which art in heaven, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
(the Father is in heaven. His will is done in heaven. Earth is where his will can be done, but is not always done? Man in his natural state is of the earth, formed from the earth. God -- as seen in the Genesis texts must perform a work on earth to form the man, and make it in His image and likeness. What God imparts to His creation is part of that creation. His will to be done in earth as it is in Heaven is something for which we are instructed to pray.)
Genesis 1:2-4 KJV
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Earth was without form and void. Void means empty. So it was a place where nothing had been done. God‘s will created it, but nothing was there, until the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
God soweth good seed. It requires good seed to bring forth good fruit because good trees are required to produce good fruit. Can’t bring forth good fruit from bad seed.
God made a division. All He made was IS GOOD. But the earth was void. He created good things in the earth but there was is could have been void remaining where He did not create where an enemy could sow bad seed, where tares could grow up.
God made a division.
Genesis 1:3-4 KJV
[3] And God said, Let there be light: and mthere was light. [4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
John 1:3-5 KJV
[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Wherever light is darkness flees away. Light dispels darkness. But there are places where light does not shine or penetrate, deep dark hidden obstructed covered inaccessible shuttered buried eclipsed places.
1 John 4:1-10 KJV
[1] Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. [2] Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: [3] And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. [4] Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. [5] They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. [6] We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. [7] Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. [8] He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [10] Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 Chronicles 17:4-14 KJV
[4] Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: [5] For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. [6] Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? [7] Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: [8] And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. [9] Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, [10] And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house. [11] And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. [12] He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. [13] I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee: [14] But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
In God's original creation, before the creation of woman, God made and saw that all things were good. But the absence of a help meet for Adam was seen by God as not good in Genesis 2:28 "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." This is a proof verse that creation itself is not God -- since God in His perfection cannot lack anything, or be in a condition that could be "not good")
…And as further enrichment and deepening of the contemplation upon these wondrous mysteries — into which we see but dimly as through a glass darkly — look upon the extension of the idea in yet another place in God’s word:
Colossians 1:12-20 KJV
[12] Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: [13] Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: [14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: [15] Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: [16] For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. [18] And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. [19] For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; [20] And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
The Apostle Paul in his specially appointed role as an amanuensis of the Holy Ghost says all that has been hinted at before in the succinct message contained in that small group of verses.
... (think on it)...May God’s Holy Spirit guide your heart and mind in all truth.
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