Day 0-Genesis 1:1-2
Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
I Corinthians 8:6
Reading: In the beginning was the Word, an the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
‘In the beginning God…’. God. In the original, this word ‘god’ that we now use as the noun God, was first used in the 6th century in a German biblical codex ‘Argenteus’ to replace ‘Theus’, the Greek translation of the Hebrew ‘El’. In the original text, it reads ‘In the beginning Elohim created’. This is the plural form of ‘El’, and used to indicate supreme ownership or kingship. A literal translation might read ‘King of the Gods’. It evokes power and majesty, complete authority. There is none higher.
But it also hints at the plurality of the nature of God: the Triune God, the great Three-In-One. For within “Elohim” are the Father, Son and Holy Spirit-separate and distinct and yet all God-plural into singular. It’s a mystery that we believe and accept, but it’s very, very hard to comprehend! In John chapter 1 we get to see a bit more-where Jesus was there as well. If anything, it was not “In the beginning Gods created” rather it is better read “In the beginning the Triune God created”. God in three persons.
God is, and was, and always will be. How our minds can grasp this concept is-well, I don’t know anyone who has actually done it to complete satisfaction. But that is one of the great mysteries, one of a very few things we are told just to ‘accept’. For the rest of creation, God gives us evidences to believe, but for this-that He, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not only one-in-three, but they have always been.
Scriptural concepts:
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:3
Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
Prayer: