No need to explain God. No need to teach how God arrived on the spot or where He had His beginning...simply because....God is...God. The assumption is made right from the beginning of the Bible that God has always been...that this "beginning" being referred to in this passage, refers to the beginning of all creation but not God's beginning.
God started the dimension of time. Without time there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow. Without time there is no reference point for time references. There are no seconds, no minutes, no hours or days without a time reference. Because God is "all that and then some," He is able to, not only give creation a starting point, but give time its starting point. Unlike humans, He isn't confined by time. God stands outside the confines and limitations of time. Our whole human existence has always been inclusive of the experiences of time and this makes it difficult to think "outside the box" of time, but God knows what things were like when there was no time dimension and no time reference. Time, to us humans, gains its reference from the earth orbiting the sun and spinning on its axis. We have established time references in our language and customs based on these reference points. One complete revolution on the axis of earth...we have established as one day. One elliptical journey of the earth around the sun is equivalent to one year. Without an earth spinning on its axis and without an earth orbiting a sun, we have no time reference. Thus, God established time when He said...
Gen 1:3-5 3 "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. NASU
God established the dimension of time before the earth was formed, and before He gave the sun and stars shape. He created one day before all this work was formed in His hands. This brings to the forefront of my mind how very awesome God really is. Have I ever separated all of light from all of darkness? Have I started the dimension of time? Eventually God would take the light and form it into stars and the sun, He would create the earth and the seas. Have I ever held the sun or the entire earth in my hands? Have I ever formed these massive substances with my hands? The answer is obviously no. This highlights just one of many differences between God and man. This is following a similar thought journey that inspired a psalmwriter to express...
Ps 8:3-4
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4 What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him? NASU
Let us be rightfully in awe of this Almighty God!
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