Post by ambassador on May 12, 2009 23:33:32 GMT -5
Was God “Bored” Before Creation?
God has ALWAYS existed, and He will ALWAYS exist. Imagine that! Read again. God has ALWAYS existed, and He will ALWAYS exist. We cannot begin to imagine such a concept, but we take it by faith because the Bible confirms it. Now, everyone knows Genesis 1:1 KJV: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
The question often arises, “what was God doing before creation?” Was God bored without the angels and man? There was nothing in existence but God, but actually God was not “bored.” The key to understanding this is found in the Trinity, the triune nature of God. In other words, the Bible says that God is one God, but in three distinct Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There are groups that deny the Trinity, but the Bible is clear that God is triune in nature.
While there are other verses that support the concept of the Trinity—the “Godhead” as it is called Acts 17:29 KJV, Romans 1:20 KJV, and Colossians 2:9 KJV—the two clearest examples from Scripture of God being in three separate Persons is 1 John 5:7 KJV and 2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV. (The sad fact is that 1 John 5:7 is often omitted in many modern English versions of the Bible.)
2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.”
1 John 5:7 KJV: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
To get a brief glimpse of what God was doing before creation, we look at what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 17. First, look at verse 5 in the KJV, and we get a small hint (Jesus praying to God the Father): “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” What was before the world? The glory that God the Father and God the Son shared! There was fellowship among the Persons of the Godhead: the Father and the Son shared glory, but read on a little further to see a more definite answer.
John 17:24 KJV reads (Jesus still speaking to the Father in prayer): “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
What occurred between God the Father and God the Son before the foundation (or the creation) of the world? LOVE! The Father LOVED the Son, and likewise the Son loved the Father. The Holy Spirit was involved too, as He was there to not only love the Father and the Son, but the Holy Spirit also WITNESSED the love between the Father and the Son.
Now, this information is not much help in answering our question, but we do get a small glimpse of eternity past. Also, we can also add that before the events of Genesis 1:1, the triune God was “laying out blueprints” for the timeline of human history.
For instance, Ephesians 1:4 KJV reads: “According as he [God the Father] hath chosen us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” What was God doing before creation? He was choosing His servants, us, members of the Body of Christ! He was planning our role in human history and His plan for the ages.
In the eons of eternity past, prior to creation, God was also setting the stage for His own death, as we see what Peter says to the Jews in Acts 2:23 KJV: “[Jesus Christ] Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” The triune God already knew AND PLANNED Christ’s First Advent and His crucifixion from the foundation of the world! He already knew He would have to die for man that would come on the scene later.
So, although our question seems to be unanswered, this is all the information God has chosen to reveal to us. It is not important to know what God was doing in eternity past; otherwise God would have gone into great detail about it in His Word. We can speculate, but as far as I know, the Bible says nothing else about what God was doing in eternity past before creation. It would be pure speculation, with no Biblical support.
God has ALWAYS existed, and He will ALWAYS exist. Imagine that! Read again. God has ALWAYS existed, and He will ALWAYS exist. We cannot begin to imagine such a concept, but we take it by faith because the Bible confirms it. Now, everyone knows Genesis 1:1 KJV: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
The question often arises, “what was God doing before creation?” Was God bored without the angels and man? There was nothing in existence but God, but actually God was not “bored.” The key to understanding this is found in the Trinity, the triune nature of God. In other words, the Bible says that God is one God, but in three distinct Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There are groups that deny the Trinity, but the Bible is clear that God is triune in nature.
While there are other verses that support the concept of the Trinity—the “Godhead” as it is called Acts 17:29 KJV, Romans 1:20 KJV, and Colossians 2:9 KJV—the two clearest examples from Scripture of God being in three separate Persons is 1 John 5:7 KJV and 2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV. (The sad fact is that 1 John 5:7 is often omitted in many modern English versions of the Bible.)
2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.”
1 John 5:7 KJV: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
To get a brief glimpse of what God was doing before creation, we look at what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 17. First, look at verse 5 in the KJV, and we get a small hint (Jesus praying to God the Father): “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” What was before the world? The glory that God the Father and God the Son shared! There was fellowship among the Persons of the Godhead: the Father and the Son shared glory, but read on a little further to see a more definite answer.
John 17:24 KJV reads (Jesus still speaking to the Father in prayer): “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
What occurred between God the Father and God the Son before the foundation (or the creation) of the world? LOVE! The Father LOVED the Son, and likewise the Son loved the Father. The Holy Spirit was involved too, as He was there to not only love the Father and the Son, but the Holy Spirit also WITNESSED the love between the Father and the Son.
Now, this information is not much help in answering our question, but we do get a small glimpse of eternity past. Also, we can also add that before the events of Genesis 1:1, the triune God was “laying out blueprints” for the timeline of human history.
For instance, Ephesians 1:4 KJV reads: “According as he [God the Father] hath chosen us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” What was God doing before creation? He was choosing His servants, us, members of the Body of Christ! He was planning our role in human history and His plan for the ages.
In the eons of eternity past, prior to creation, God was also setting the stage for His own death, as we see what Peter says to the Jews in Acts 2:23 KJV: “[Jesus Christ] Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” The triune God already knew AND PLANNED Christ’s First Advent and His crucifixion from the foundation of the world! He already knew He would have to die for man that would come on the scene later.
So, although our question seems to be unanswered, this is all the information God has chosen to reveal to us. It is not important to know what God was doing in eternity past; otherwise God would have gone into great detail about it in His Word. We can speculate, but as far as I know, the Bible says nothing else about what God was doing in eternity past before creation. It would be pure speculation, with no Biblical support.