Bible Discussion Thread

Genesis 1 1 introduces us to an entity which will become known to us as God this entity will be defined by his deeds and actions The actions which we are directed to and for which he is credited is the creation of the known universe That may have been the point of the commentary to begin with The writer of Genesis establishes several things in verse 1 He establishes the existence of an entity that existed before time and space as we know it what we are told that this is a benevolent entity with philanthropic intent This entity could exist in an environment with non of the elements that we need But he commentary in Genesis 1 is a bit redundant as the made universe would of necessity have included the earth why mention it separately if not for the benefit of the audience to give them as sense of origin Since nothing existed only this entity would know the facts Only this entity God steps forward and takes responsibility for the beginning