To Susan on Gen. 1 -- We need to back up our 'witness' with scripture: 1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9; Jn. 1:1, v. 10, v. 14; Rev. 1:18; 2:4. This isn't all; There are lots more. God didn't leave Himself without a witness.
To Susan on Gen. 1 -- God did indeed have the basic plan, but nowhere in His word does it mention Jesus doing anything or the Holy spirit doing anything in God's creation. God did it all because He IS all three ASPECTS, not separate persons, I am a daughter, wife and mother - but one person. God is not a person; He is spirit. He is the Holy Ghost (spirit); He was Jesus incarnate.
The Godhead consists of three. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Gospel of John 1:1-3,14 mentions the Father and clarifies that the Word is Jesus and Genesis 1:2 mentions the Spirit. All three present and taking part in Creation. I think of their parts like a contractor, architect and builder. The Father had the basic plan, the Son did the design and the Spirit, the work.
To Jim on Gen. 1 ( cont.) - also when God referred to the plural he may have been referring to the fact He already knew of His own plan to create an earthly body to dwell in named - JESUS. God is omniscient (all knowing; knowing all things from BEFORE the "beginning" in Gen.) He knew he was going to create you and me - way back then ( Jer. 1:5). Jesus wasn't before the virgin birth.
to Jim on GEN. 1:26 - Some claim God was conversing with another diety.This could not be true: God made all things ALONE. The Hebrew word for God is Elohim ( plural) in ALL of Gen. 1.But the Jews believed in only ONE God - :Hear O Israel...:- DEUT. 6:4. 'Us' and 'our' are simply figures of speech that God, not man, used.
God had already created the earth .Someone once told me God was talking to the earth. Man was made from the dust of the ground. "Let us make man in our image" from the dirt of the ground and God breathed into man the breath of life. Man became a living soul. when we die the soul goes back to God and the body returns to the earth.
Jim God ordained Jeremiah and knew him before He put Jeremiah in his Mothers womb and as you read that Esau God hated and loved Jacob you realize that God knew them from before. In Ephesians 1 God speaking to the election explaining to them that they were chosen and predestin from before the foundation of the earth, this earth age. Gen 1:2 the word "was" translates "became". We are very old.
Why does it say, "And God said, let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness." Is there more than one God? Us and our does mean more than one. Right? Genesis 1:26.
I have always wondered why light was the second thing created yet the sun, moon and stars were created later down. He created light without the sun. The Psalmist said "the darkness and light are both alike to thee. God is very comfortable in darkness but he prepared Jesus before anything else as "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
GOD IS EXCELLENT IN HIS CREATION, AND MIGHTY IN HIS POWER! AND NOT SLACKING IN HIS PROMISES AS SOME MEN OR HUMANKIND COUNT HIM TO BE! GOD AS OUR FATHER WANTS TO BE OUR HEALOR, LORD, GOD, AND KING! PROVIDER, WAY MAKER, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS OR RIGHT WAY, AND HOPE! INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNORMENT OR ANOTHER SOURCE.
I was awakened suddenly a few night ago,and could not get back to sleep. THen after awhile, I smelled smoke! Thanks and praise to the Most Glorious Father, His Holy Son ,and the Holy Spirit for Your kind mercy to me and my family. It havecould a horrible disaster. But He would not let me sleep/ Trust in God always and be ever thankful. He loves you.
Susan, Proverbs 3:5-8. Trust in the Lord with all thine. Ephesians 5 chapter. Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourself with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. God Bless.
In the beginning was the WORD , and the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD