In the Beginning God

 

 

“In the beginning God”

Get the order right!

Don’t fall for the suggestion

This distinction is slight.

 

Four words!

No preface or preamble,

Now let us follow carefully

Without risk or gamble.

 

Satan is very subtle

In the way he brings his case:

“No difference between the two”

The argument is a waste.

 

Is there any difference

Between God and Creator?

Regarding this critical question

The Bible gives the answer.

 

 

But first let us address

The subtlety which Satan chooses,

“Hath God said?” he used with Eve,

Suggestion is what he uses.

 

He did it with Jesus too

In the wilderness temptations,

“God will give His angels charge”

Concerning your protection.

 

Putting God to the test!

That is what we daily do

And we know for sure that He exists

If he always comes through.

 

And we quote the Word

To convince God He must,

He must stand by what He says

If He is fair and just.

 

 

So, “In the beginning God”

Back to the point we come,

It is critically important

Though neglected by some.

 

From Eve to the Romans epistle

Chapter 1 to be exact,

Notice how mankind falls

To Satan’s well laid trap.

 

No distinction it would seem

Between the creation and God,

“You can worship them both”

The suggestion of King Fraud.

 

Professing themselves to be wise

They actually became fools,

They changed God for His creation

And thought this was cool.

 

No difference as in person:

God and Creator is the same,

Creator, however, speaks to function

But God is eternally His name.

 

God transcends His creation

After all He is God,

As God, He is the Blessed Trinity,

As Creator, He is maker of all.

 

It is critically important

To get this order straight,

It is God first then Creator

Just as the Bible states.

 

Do not make light of this

It shows God is the first cause,

Creator shows He made everything

But before creation “He is God”.

 

“He is God” is not an error,

That is to be taken deliberately,

The fact He was and is and always will be

Is the first reality.

 

 

In the beginning God!

Notice “created” comes next,

He was God before Creator

That’s in the biblical text.

 

No need to interpret

And contend ad infinitum,

Stand on what the Bible says

And the job is easily done.

  

God transcends His creation

After all He is God,

As God, He is the Blessed Trinity,

As Creator, He is maker of all.

 

God was Creator in the beginning

When He created time

Then He created space and matter:

A trinity of a different kind.

 

Order is critically important

Particularly in this day and age,

Creator can refer to many things

Elohim is God at every stage.

 

Stewart Russell © November 27, 2021