Jesus the Creator

Jn 1:3   Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
  
We now move away from the narratives and go to John’s Gospel for a number of meditations to consider some of the concepts that he shares with us that shed light on just who Jesus Christ was and is. Atheistic scientists declare the world was made by a big bang and all living creatures are the result of unplanned evolution. Well they can’t say anything else, can they? If you pretend there is no God, then everything has to be pure chance and everything has got to come about from a single cell evolving into the incredible multi-cell creatures that we are today. There’s no other way to explain it if you pretend there is no God, and all you’re left with is a purposeless, meaningless world. How sad!
   
Then we come to the Bible which unashamedly declares from the first words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1). God created. It wasn’t a purposeless accident, it was a pure act of God, however He did it. Now John, starting out his Gospel with a description of the expression of God which became flesh, tells is that the Word was with God and was God and, in case you still hadn’t got the message, that this Word was the agent through which God made everything. This Word was the Creator and there was absolutely nothing in existence that didn’t come into being because of him.

Now the writer to the Hebrews expressed the same thing: “but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son…. through whom he made the universe.” (Heb 1:2). The apostle Paul said the same thing: “For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.” There are silly and ignorant people who say that Jesus’ divinity wasn’t declared until three centuries later. They clearly have never read these verses! Three different writers ascribe the creation of existence to Jesus! This puts him fairly and squarely in the description of ‘divinity’!

The Old Testament also has an echo of this. Solomon in the early part of Proverbs personifies wisdom and has ‘him’ speaking, “I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.” (Prov 8:27-31). What an amazing passage; a figure alongside the Father totally involved in bringing everything into being.

In John’s day there were those who believed that spirit and matter were opposed and never could come together. God was spirit, and there was matter that was not good. John’s words address these confused philosophers. God is Spirit but God brought matter into being. How can matter come from nothing? We don’t know, it is beyond our finite minds, but John knows that God has no problem with matter for He made it. More than that His Son was part of the creation process and then His Son entered the material realm and Spirit lived in flesh on a material world. Oh no, there is no distinction of good and bad over spirit and matter with God. He has made everything and, in the form of His Son, Jesus Christ, He has lived in this material world. He made it and lived in it. There can be no feeling here that God made something inferior when He created the material world. He proved His approval by sending His Son to live in it. Enjoy God’s creation!