In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…
(We WILL be reunited with our loved ones…)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” John 1:1-4 KJV
“God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16 KJV
I conclude from this that, ‘in the beginning there was Love.’ Before God created the fabric of time and space when nothing existed, Love was there with God. Physics teaches us that indeed there was a ‘Big Bang.’ God spoke and bang there was Light. Time and space came into being. There was light. Eternity intersected time and space. There was creation. From the point of creation of the universe as we know it, time began to unfold with the four dimensions of the time-space continuum.
Belgian astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Lemaître theorized the moment of creation, giving us the big bang theory which is consistent with the scriptural description of creation. So there was Light. The absence of Light is darkness. Likewise the absence of Love is hate. I have come to believe that God is the source of all ‘Love’. Over the ages man has defined different kinds of love. CS Lewis in his book “The Four Loves” wrote of various types of love. Some loves are simpler than others. For example the ‘affection’ one has for a dog is a simple love. Yet it seems to me that the essence of all loves begin with God. Therefore it must be concluded that Love can transcend time and space and touches eternity or intersect with eternity…
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
POST SCRIPT:
“Of course, what these people (materialists) mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean ‘Love is God’. They really mean that our feelings of love, however and wherever they arise, and whatever results they produce, are to be treated with great respect. Perhaps they are: but that is something quite different from what Christians mean by the statement ‘God is love’. They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else.” CS Lewis from Mere Christianity
“The Last of the Mohicans” was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. Cooper was a favorite early American authors of mine when I was in college.
Enjoy this version with scenes from the movie…
(We WILL be reunited with our loved ones…)
In March I added this:
We get just a glimpse fo God’s Light…
Human love whether it be affectionate, friendship or Eros is but a faint flicker of True Love. God is Love. The universe is a reflection of His Love. God’s Love is infinite brightness, warming heat and glowing Peace. Here on this our island home we get glimpses of His Light in our flickering faint human sight through our human loves…This song always brings that to my mind…
In July 2019 I added this:
Our human love are but a foretaste of God’s LOVE….
DKS