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In the Beginning
In the very beginning, God was alone!
In due time He brought forth His Son – the “firstborn of every creature” – through whom
the design of all creation was carried out.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible. (Colossians 1:16)
“In the beginning…”
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
When there were no depths I was brought forth:
When there were no fountains abounding with water,
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields,
Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When He established the clouds above:
When He strengthened the fountains of the deep:
When He gave to the seas His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment:
When He appointed the foundations of the earth:
When He prepared the heavens, I was there:
When He set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and
I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him,
Rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth.”
(Proverbs 8: 22-31)
And it was in the tranquil beauty of a garden planted eastward in Eden MAN was brought into being. God said to His Son: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)
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God in His eternal plan for man provided a test of perfect obedience:
“Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:16,17)
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