Surely nothing bends the mind like the thought of eternity. Men every so cleverly without success have tried to devise cunning notions by which they can explain the creation of all that we see from absolutely nothing, yet no one can reconcile the fact that something came from nothing. The second law of thermodynamics and countless other laws of physics deny outright the thoughts and musings of bewildered scientists who try to explain without the divine how we came to be here.

The psalmist explained in the scriptures that the fool has said in his heart there is no God (Psa 14:1). Many from Voltaire to Dawkins have sought to denounce the eternal father and laugh to scorn the blessed man of Calvary. Yet the scripture is clear in the record of how all things came in to existence through the eternal son of God.

Why surely you may ask how could a man be eternal? Was not his first advent his creation? My sixteen year old unbelieving spirit asked these questions and thought they questions could not be answered until I found what the canon of scripture, the bible taught.

A dictionary definition of eternal I found to be useful was:

1. without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life

This is exactly the attribute of our God and indeed his son the Lord Jesus Christ, another definition I found was:

beyond time; atemporal. As such, eternal does not mean "forever." Eternity simply "is." It is the opposite of temporal.

So now we begin to see the problem with even trying to comprehend something so utterly out of human scope it begins to make one feel rather dizzy. I remember as a child trying as hard as I possibly could to imagine what things were like before I was born, watching the television and seeing the pop stars of the seventies but realising I wasn’t born.

And in a wider scope modern man has had the same problem, many trying to attribute the mechanisms an eternal creator has used to order the universe and turn this phenomenon into the source of life. The scriptures have much to say about not only the fact that our Lord was co-eternal but was co-creator.

We see many allusions to the triune nature of God as early as Gen 1:26 ‘Let us make man in our image’ a peculiar statement indeed if the godhead was not known to be biblical truth.

The psalmist and the author of proverbs all exclaim wonderfully the pre existence and dialogue between father and son. (Proverbs 8:22, Psalms 102:25). Not to mention the many prophecies I will deal with in another post throughout the old testament.

In the new we are told ‘in the beginning was the Word, and the Word with God, and the Word was God’ (John 1:1) John speaking evidently of the Saviour exclaimed that ‘all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made’. We can clearly see the pre-eminence of our Lord in creation and indeed in all things.

Paul affirms in Colossians 1:17 the following ‘And he is before all things, and by him all things consist’. And emphatically to the Ephesians he wrote ‘And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from thebeginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:’ (Ephesians 3:9).

The son was ever with the father and shared glory with him before the foundations of old this can be seen in Johns gospel (Jhn 17:24), the saviour exclaiming that the father loved the son before the foundation of the world. This should cause us great joy indeed.

And one cannot forget the wonderful language of Micah ‘But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.’ (Micah 5:2).

The prophet telling forth how the one from of old the everlasting would come to Bethlehem to be made manifest in the flesh, we as temporal and finite beings cannot even fathom what was of old. However, we know that what the word expounds is truth to the confounding of many fables as to the origin of this cosmos.

It is a thing most marvelous to even begin to comprehend the stoop that the Lord descended to from heaven to earth to make us the righteousness of God in him. More could be written but I am afraid of my little knowledge in this area of scripture but child of God be in awe that the one who framed the heavens has personal dealings with you.