Heaven, according to Genesis 1:1
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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
10 words.
Just ten simple words. Yet, they confound the wise, and bring disdain from the opponents of this statement.
To the Atheist, they are absurdity.
To the agnostic, they are unlikely.
To the modernist, they are powerless.
To the religious, they are a good thought.
To the believer, they are the answer to the purpose of life.
To everyone they are truth.
In the beginning.
In the beginning.
What is the beginning?
What began?
What existed before beginning?
In the Beginning, is the opening word in the Hebrew Bible and serves as the title.
These are questions that have perplexed the greatest minds to have ever lived.
The Hebrew word for beginning is Reshit, and means what cones first.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
We see in Scripture that God did not begin in Gen. 1.1 because he was there in the beginning. Thus, life, love, and deity did not begin.
What began was time, space, and matter.
Before Gen 1.1 God existed, but existence as we know it did not.
Instead, what existed was something foreign to human comprehension. Before, Gen. 1.1 there was no place, time, or matter.
In the beginning is a reference to the physical world that we know reside in.
God
God
Elohim- God, deity.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary (A. The Creation (1:1–2:3))
If indeed God was before all things and made all things, how foolish it would be to have any other gods before Him! There were none. If indeed God made man in His image to represent Him, how foolish it would be to make an image of God!
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
Grammatically God is the subject. Likewise, He is the main subject of all of history. Everything began and will end with Him.
Created
Created
Form, by cutting. To carve out, from nothing.
What did God carve out of?
By very nature of creation, He could not have created from some inanimate object. No, His power would be finite if He was dependent upon some outside source for His creation. He carved out from HIs own power and will.
Reality came to be by the will of God.
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
In God all things exist.
The Heavens and the earth.
The Heavens and the earth.
The technical words in Hebrew are sky and land.
However, this direct translation does not display the full meaning in the Hebrew text. It may be clearer to state, the sky, land, and everything contained within them.
24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
Heaven, according to Genesis 1:1
Heaven, according to Genesis 1:1
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
Heaven is a literal place.
We know this because God is a real God.
It exists beyond time, space, and matter.
There is no death.
4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
We will know God in ways that we can understand now.
Eternity and time will not matter.
4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
There is no death, physical or spiritual.
Spiritual death will be gone, because we will never suffer a lack of Gods presence.
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
There will be no physical death because we will be removed from this sin cursed world of the flesh.