CREATION AND RECREATION chapter2

                                                  Precreation

Read Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:15-19 Revelation 4:11 Psalm 147:5 Genesis 2:4-5 John 1:1-3 Revelation 21:1 Hebrews 1:3 (KJV)

The Word has always existed. The Word is God and has been with God from all eternity to all eternity. The Word constitutes the Infinite Wisdom and Understanding of God. Before God began His finite creations, the Word already existed as an Infinity of Ideas and combinations of Ideas. In other words, God was, and is, an Infinity of Ideas with an Infinity of Plans for those Ideas. All of God's finite creations have been based on some of the Infinite Ideas and Plans in His Mind.

When God created the world, He no doubt used only a small part of His Infinite Ideas and Plans as patterns for this creation. He pushed this finite creation beyond His Infinite Self into the form of a material world to be experienced by finite living creatures mainly through their senses. In other words, God patterned the world after some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans but the material world cannot participate in God's Being because He specifically created it to be finite. The finitude of God's creations cannot diminish His Infinity because infinity cannot be diminished or increased. In other words, the material world results from God's Ideas and Plans, but as finite, lies outside of God's Being.

God also created the heaven to be finite, but no doubt He used a greater number of His Ideas and Plans for its pattern. God also pushed the heaven beyond His Being but infused it with His Spiritual Presence so that those He created to live there may experience heaven on a spiritual level or a material level as they desire. God is also present in the material world but it is not a part of His Being, as is heaven in a spiritual sense. The day will come when God will create a new heaven and a new earth, but only that part of heaven which is not a part of God's Being will be recreated, and not God's Being itself, which never changes.

Certain phrases contained in such scriptures as Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:15-19 and Hebrews 1:3 indicate that in God's creations of heaven and earth, He drew His patterns from an Infinity of Ideas and Plans which is the eternal Word of God. In Ephesians 3:9, the phrase: "who created all things by Jesus Christ," reveals that God used some of His Infinite Wisdom and Understanding, which is Jesus the Word, as patterns to create the heaven and earth. In Colossians 1:15-19, the phrases: "And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist," and "that in all things He might have the preeminence," and "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;" clearly indicate that the Word of God who is Christ provided a part of His Infinity of Ideas and Plans as patterns for the creations of the heaven and earth.


In Hebrews 1:3, the phrase: "and upholding all things by the Word of His Power," clearly indicates that God's Living Word both caused and supports God's creations.

Although each individual Idea and Plan within God's Infinite Consciousness is itself Infinite, the Infinity of their interrelationships and interdependence causes them all to merge into One Infinite Consciousness which forms the Being of God. Also, since God's Self-Consciousness must also be Infinite, then each of His individual Infinite Ideas and Plans can only be an Infinite Reflection within His Infinite Self-Consciousness, causing God to be an Infinite Holiness. In other words, there can be no less or more with God. He is an Infinite Completion. Jesus referred to this when He said: "I sanctify Myself...." Read John 17:19.

When we finite humans reflect on the fact that we can be conscious of our consciousness, we demonstrate that God created us to reflect a finite section of His Infinite Self-Consciousness. To this extent, all finite creations reflect but finite sections of His Infinite Ideas and Plans. For these reasons, there can be no meaninglessness in saying such things as: "consciousness is conscious," or "red is red," or "reality is real," since such statements simply reflect the fact that each finite creation represents a section of an Infinite Idea or Plan. For these reasons, when God created the world, He did not state that each creation was perfect, but only that it was "good."

Every Infinite Idea and Plan can only be absolutely perfect since each one has been purified by an Infinite Reflection. Each of these absolute perfections can be considered to be quite similar to Plato's Ideas.

The word "generations" in Genesis 2:4-5 implies a descent, a coming down from one form of existence to another. This description of creation indicates that God pushed some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans into a finite reality when He created the heaven and the earth. Verse 5 relates "that every plant of the field" was already growing within God's Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans before He transplanted them to grow in the earth. Again, this description of creation reinforces the idea that God's finite creations comprise but small sections derived from His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans.