Chapter 1
- verse 1- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Strong’s concordance – beginning
ἀρχή archḗ, ar-khay’; from G756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):—beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
Christ the cornerstone Matt 21:42 Psalm 118:22,23
The Kalam Cosmological Argument
(1) Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
(2) The universe has a beginning of its existence.
Therefore:
(3) The universe has a cause of its existence.
(4) If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God.
Therefore:
(5) God exists.
Genesis 1:1
Strong’s concordance – word
λόγος lógos, log’-os; from G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):—account, cause, communication, concerning, doctrine, fame, have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, speaker, speech, talk, thing, none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Jesus is God’s communication to us
The Word was with God – not the same person
The Word was God – the same nature
- verse 2 – The same was in the beginning with God.
These cornerstones/foundations were with God (the third person) in the beginning.
From the Athanasian Creed – We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.
Genesis 1:26
- verse 3 – All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Hebrews 1:2, Colossians 1:15-20
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/kalam – the cosmological argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLfgaUoQCw – St. Patrick explains the trinity (humor)
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