Vazquez Counseling

Today, I want to focus on two familiar passages of Scripture that indicate a monumental Truth of God.

The first passage is Genesis 1:1-2, where the Word says:

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (New King James Version)

The second passage is John 1:1-5, where God’s Word says:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” (NKJV)

The Holy Trinity, God in Three Persons, is an impossible Being to understand with our finite minds. In fact, I don’t think we’ll ever really comprehend Him, even in Eternity Future. In these two pivotal passages from Scripture, we see that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit were all present at the foundation of the Creation.

I’ve mentioned before in previous blogs that the Bible needs to be understood contextually. In this case, we need to understand the linguistic context of these passages. I’m going to focus on the word “beginning.” In the original Hebrew, “beginning” has several connotations. As in English, it can mean the start of something. But, in the Hebrew, it can mean “magistrate,” “principality,” “power”, “corner,” and several other shades of those words. What the writer of Genesis is conveying is that at the foundation of Creation, the Source of everything was God in Three Persons.

In the Genesis account above, the Hebrew word for God is Elohim, which indicates that God exists in a plurality. Then in Genesis 1:26-28, the Word of God says this:

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” (NKJV)

Notice the pronoun “Us” (plural) in the passage above. God, in His Triune Nature, created Everything. The Bible says that God created the Heavens and the Earth, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters when the Earth was formless and void. Then in John 1, the Bible says that Jesus, or the Word, was there, too. And I’ll leave you with this, how does the Scripture say that God created Everything? He spoke it into being; hence He used His Word (Jesus!). Isn’t all this a beautiful picture of the Trinity?