Something Greater

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) This is the first mention in the Holy Bible of the name of the Creator of everything..God . The Hebrew word used here is 'elohiym, (pronounced el-o-heem'). It is in the plural form, meaning "gods", and it is preceded by a specific article meaning "the", referring to the supreme God. It is derived from a word meaning to twist, implying to be strong . The word for created is bara', meaning to produce, to bring into being from nothing . It was also used to mean cutting down a forest, selecting, or feeding. Taken at face value, these two words suggest a Person, one Creator Who personally brought into existence all matter and substance. These words carry implications of strength, imagination, and purpose . It seems a paradox to combine a word that is in the plural form with the specific article "the". The combination produces a picture of strength (many) joined in uni...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning of what? Certainly not the beginning of God. The Holy Bible does not tell what God was doing before this beginning, but whatever He was doing, He most certainly was. In every Book of the Bible God is seen as having always existed, before the beginning of everything else. That's the definition of "creator". The One Who Creates everything exists outside of everything. He has need of nothing created in order to exist... He is the Self-Existent One . That blows our minds...humans cannot grasp this concept. We can see it, dimly. We can describe it with words, limply. But we cannot compare it to any sort of human act or ability . Perhaps the creation of a story is the best analogy of God's self-existence. An author who writes a story...a poem, an essay, a book...takes what is inside himself, his thoughts, experiences, relationships, and creates something tha...