Genesis 1 is not recorded in the Bible as “a history of the creation” but rather it is showing us how we can experience Christ as life. We start as “dead in sins and offenses” (Rom. 5:12) – corresponding to “the earth became waste and void” – and at one point, the Spirit of God […]
A Separation of the Heavenly and Earthly Things Through the Cross for Life to be Generated
Genesis 1 and 2 show us in picture how we can experience Christ as life. These two chapters are not a complete record of how God created the heavens and the earth, but they are written for us to see how we can experience Christ as our life in our daily life. First of all, […]
The Bible is a Book of Life; God Uses the Spirit, Word, and Light to Generate Life!
The Bible is a book of life, and in order for us to understand and receive what the Bible is about, we need to open to God, the Writer of the Bible. The book of Genesis as the first book of the Bible is not a record of creation and then of the history of […]
Christ Upholds All Things – All Things Cohere in Christ and are Unto Christ!
Christ is the Creator of all things in the universe, and He is also the means and the active instrument through which the whole creation came into being. As Col. 1:16-17 clearly tells us, all were created through Christ, they cohere in Him, and they are unto Him. This means that after He created everything, […]
Christ as the Word of God is Both the Creator and the Means of His Creation
God created the heavens and the earth for His will to be accomplished and His purpose to be fulfilled. How did God create the universe? Christ as the Word was the Creator, and He spoke things into being. We human beings can only make things out of something else, but God can call things not […]
God Created All Things for His Will to have the Body of Christ as His Expression
Why did God create the heavens, the earth, and all things in it? Why did God create man? God is a God of purpose, a God who has a will of His own pleasure, and He created all things for His will so that He might accomplish and fulfill His purpose (Eph. 3:9-11; Col. 1:9). […]
The Purpose of God’s Creation: to Glorify the Son of God and Manifest God in Man
Our God is a God of purpose, and in His creation of the universe and of man He had a purpose. Also, God had a motive for creating all things. According to the Bible, the motive of God’s creation was to fulfill the desire of God’s heart and to satisfy His good pleasure (see Eph. […]