| Previous | Contents | Next |
John 1:1 - "In [the] beginning was the Word" Clearly this ascends before Genesis 1:1. In one beginning, God acted; in the other the Word was, before His power was put forth.
1:2-3 - "The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him." The Greek "Egeneto" is not quite the same as either the Hebrew "asah" or the English "made" but means "caused to be."
But the Hebrew "create" refers to an absolute act of God, never to an act of man. It is the word used for the creation of the cosmos in 1:1, and for the first production of animal life for the Adamic world, and to the sixth day's creation of man.
| Previous | Contents | Next |