IT’S YOM TERUAH! THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS! IT’S A DAY OF SHOUTING!
This is also the first day of The 10 Days of Awe.
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This is also the first day of The 10 Days of Awe.
Continue readingGenesis 1 declares the existence of God. It doesn’t try to argue the point. God existed before creation because He created all things. Therefore, God pre-exists time because creation is also the beginning of time. From there we can conclude that nothing pre-exists God. If God had a beginning, then time would have to exist in order to measure when God began. Infinity cannot be measured, so God was not created. He always was and is. He told Moses He is the I AM. There is no past or future in I AM. It is always in the present. It’s kind of like the saying that tomorrow never comes. Because when tomorrow comes, from our perspective it will be today. God is the I AM because He is always present. He exists outside of time so there is no past or future to Him. All things exist together in time.
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Genesis 1:1 declares, “God created.” We’re here to study the written words of God, so there is no need to spend time proving the existence of God. God is, or as He tells Moses later, He is the I AM. He always was, and Genesis says He created everything in six days. So our first question is, how long did that take?
Did creation happen billions of years ago or as soon as 6000 years ago? It doesn’t matter what your belief, all determinations are interpreted from the same thing, time. Or rather, our perception of time.
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Genesis 1:1 through 6:8 is only five chapters and a few verses, but there is so much packed into this first potion. It covers the creation, the fall, Cain and Abel, the genealogy of Adam down to Noah, and the mention of the Nephilim. We’ll go through all of that with the upcoming posts, with just a summary listed here.
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