“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
