The God of Life and Death- Part I

In the beginning, there was only the Uncreated God, a God who was not formed. It was from Him that all things ensued, and all things were created by Him and Him alone. All animate, inanimate, and all life forms have been created by the Great Creator God and none other. In the Scriptures, the book of Genesis, God created this planet by word of mouth. Such is the power of God. All life forms on this planet came into existence by His pleasure. From the fourth day onwards, God created life forms. Genesis 1:20-26 “20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.   21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:  and God saw that it was good.   22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.   23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.   24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:  and it was so.   25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:  and God saw that it was good.   26 And God said, 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. 

Thus, the giver of all Life is God. In other words, we can say that the beginning of life is in God and thus God is life itself. John 5:26 confirms this: “For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” The Father has life in himself. He exists. Existence belongs to him. Nothing exists apart from God, who grants existence—and not just existence but life in himself. The Father does not keep life in himself. It is in him to share all that he has. The Father has life in himself. He exists. Existence belongs to him. Nothing exists apart from God, who grants existence—and not just existence but life in himself.

John explains, in I John 5:11-13, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.   12 He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.   13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”  “And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The life that God has in himself, which is vibrant and full, is granted to us, his creatures.

Jesus Christ is our life and the fountain of Life. John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:  14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”  Knowing that God is life, He will surely give us life. If he has promised life everlasting, there is no way that it should not be fulfilled. 

Dr Ashwin Drummond

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