Why does thinking God has always been in existance hold more intellectual weight than thinking the universe has always been in existance?
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Because God said it is so in His Word.
More and more, His Word is proven to be right in every infinite detail, only Man's interpretation of it's meaning was in error.
I could attempt to explain how this creation took place but unless you see the Word of God as a static true, and use it for an absolute my explaination will prove little to the critic.
In the beginning God....(Elohim) dwelt alone as a spirit, before the "beginning" he had in Him attributes to be expressed. Like genes. They were in His mind before the foundation of the World, as a thought. These are the sons of God.
A Word is a thought expressed, and when God spoke He began to form into the material. He created the heavens and the earth, and all therein.
He created Adam, a son of God, Spirit...made in His own image, for God is a Spirit. The Word body is a body created by the spoken word without hands. A theophany body.
Then God created a body from the dust of the earth, to till the soil. Adam was a son of God. He could not be deceived. And He like the type of God he represented dwelled alone.
When God took Eve from adam , she was created a by-product from Man , in His Image, not Gods.
She was made vastly different from all the other females in that she was the most beautiful, not the male of the human species, and she could be touched anytime, not just when in "season" for her babies as the other animals.
She was created so She could be deceived.....
Adam was not deceived. He went with her willingly after she fell to save her, just as Jesus came down from heaven and died to redeem His Bride.
Elohim did not cause man to fall, but in Him was the attribute to be a saviour, a healer, a son, a daughter, a father...ect...
He knew by foreknowledge what Man would do, and let it happen so He could be our saviour, and reddem us even after we disobeyed and denyed His Word was true essentially calling God a liar, by our actions.
His word, every Word is true, only what was in His mind when he wrote it is sealed to be revealed to whom He wills it.
The bible says "God himself came down in the cool of the evening, and talked with Adam".
The Tree of Life, is the Word of God (In the book of Proverbs it says, "the words of a righteous man are as the fruits of the tree of life")
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil , was the serpent , which they were commanded not to eat of least they die. ( a mixed tree containing the truth mixed with lies) The best lie is the one that contains 99% of the truth, and only 1% lie.
The Serpent said to Eve, "surely you shall not die, but your eyes shall be opened and you shall be like gods". Adam was created by the spoken Word. Satan can not create something from nothing, he can only pervert something God has already created, so he used the serpent to seduce Eve and thereby create a hybrid race.
Only after God cursed it and changed evey bone in it's body was it turned into a snake as we see it today....but the damage was already done. Eve was pregnate with Cain, the serpents seed.
Then we have two races on the earth - The sons of God, Adam and Eves true children, and the sons of men....the offsring of the Serpent through Eve.
She was the "mother" of all living, but Adam was not the "father" of all living.
The bible says "Cain was of his father the wicked one"
Just a perfect type of the church today......
Jesus said of the religious leaders of His day...
"Ye serpents, Ye generation of Vipers you do always resist the Holy Ghost"...also He said..."You are of your father the devil and his works you will do"
He called them "whited sepcatures full of dead mens bones".
Ever wonder why....? Now you know.
