In the Beginning

There was a beginning before all that is; but before all that, we were among the audience that heard the command, “Let there be.” That such a thing could be considered, let alone commanded, means that all that is has some sort of existence before the command, “Let there be.”

This is affirmed in the expression, “In the beginning, Elohim created the Heavens and the Earth.” These were not eternal realities existing apart from God, but were created by God “in” the beginning. Thus, the beginning was with God; and the beginning was at the command of God; for it was with God before the beginning was a thing that had any reality apart from God.

That which began in the beginning was not God, however; for God created, “in the beginning.” That there is said to have been a beginning that was created can only mean that there is a reality that exists before time and will continue to exist after time; for in that reality is the power to create time, as the expression, “in the beginning” affirms.

All that which is, subsequent to the beginning, must bear the imprimatur of the reality that could conceive of such a thing as a beginning; for it is written, “the invisible things of God are clearly seen in the things that are made.” That which came to be could not be considered as God; for it is an expression of God that was within God before God drew upon the eternal realm to create a beginning, which is among the invisible things that are of God. God therefore drew upon eternal essence to create a beginning, emptying some portion of the eternal realm into an immortal realm, which is called ‘the Heavens,’ and a mortal realm, which is called ‘the Earth.’”