Commentary on the Gospel of John

                               Chapter One

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One day in God's eternal timescale, He decided to create a Heaven, a universe and all life forms. Genesis 1:1. It all had a beginning. Science has discovered that beginning which it calls the big bang. But there was no explosion. There was only an expansion of the universe. The big bang indicates the existence of God because it confirms that the universe had a beginning just as Genesis 1:1 states. Although all that God has created, including true science, happens to be a message to mankind, and therefore, a part of the Word of God, believers should rely on the written Word of God to confirm that God created the universe. Romans 1:18-20. Isaiah 40:22 clearly states that God "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" which can only refer to the expansion of the universe. Believers should also believe that the earth is a sphere because this same verse says so. Science has only confirmed the truth that God has given in His Word.

God created the universe and life to be external from Himself. Even though the Holy Spirit happens to be present to even the smallest particles of God's creations, nevertheless, the Holy Spirit is Infinite Consciousness and the smallest particles happen to be objects to that Consciousness. Romans 11:36.

When God created humans in His own image, He made reality objective to them. God put His ideas and principles inside of them even though He made their good souls and spirits external to Himself. In other words, God created the good souls and spirits of humans as the objects of His Consciousness. God desired that the holy principles of His life that He put into humans should be a light to them; that is, a guide for them to always be righteous.

God created Adam and Eve in His image and put them into a beautiful garden and gave them a blissful life. But Satan was there, and he brought darkness, which represents the evils of spiritual death, into that perfect garden. Satan also knew that God had given free will to Adam and Eve because he observed that God had given them a choice between eating of the Tree of Life or eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan knew that he could use their free will against them, cause them to disobey God which would cause a loss of fellowship between them and God which would weaken them to the extent that he would be able to inject the evils of spiritual death into their inner beings. Satan believed that that spiritual death would eventually overpower and annul their spiritual life and cause them to be lost from God's Love forever. In his rebellion against God, Satan would be able to prove that God is not Almighty, and Satan believed that that result would weaken God to the point that Satan would be able to murder God and take His place. John 8:44. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Absolutely everything that God has ever created goes out from Him, and eventually, it all comes back to Him. Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8.