The Gospel of John, Chapter One, Verse Three
3 (AV) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
3 (YLT) all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
3 (IGNT) παντα δι αυτου εγενετο και χωρις αυτου εγενετο ουδε εν ο γεγονεν
All through Him came to be (became; egeneto) and apart from him (autou) became (came to be) not yet (even) one which has come to be.
Every thing came to be through Him. Apart from Him, no thing would exist, had He not brought it into being.
Anything that came to be, did not exist prior to being brought into being. Anything that “comes into being” does not exist; if it already existed, it would already “be”, and could not be “brought into being.” Every thing had a beginning, and is necessarily not self-existent. Every thing has a beginning.
“He” is “The Word”. “The Word”, which was God, brought “all” into being. “All” is dependent upon Him Who brought it all into being. Nothing can exist without Him who caused it to exist.
He Who brought everything into being, must necessarily be sufficient in concepts, knowledge, skill, and ability, to bring all that exists into being, or He could not have brought into being “all” that exists. God’s power, therefore, exceeds the power of every other being, because no other being is capable of bringing other things into being as from nothing. While created beings are capable of developing a new thing from pre-existing materials, created beings are incapable of bringing the first materials into being in the total absence of the “stuff” of which those first materials are comprised.
At the molecular level, then, there was no concentrated “singularity” awaiting the right combination of energy plus matter plus time to trigger a reaction that would propel its contents outward from the hyper-energized centre such that it would arrange itself into orderly arrays that would randomly develop systems and ultimately become animate, reproductive, and self-aware entities to populate, analyse, organize, and exploit the environments that arose from such a random “big bang”.
God’s record of God’s actions “in the beginning”, states that God created the heavens and the earth. it does not say, nor does it leave room for the possibility that God initiated a randomly-driven process of development that, over countless millennia, would finally produce not only a single “world”, but a vast and complex system of heavens with its planets, stars, and moons. Nor does it leave room for the earth to have randomly accumulated from the chaotic swirling mass of matter in undirected energy, nor is it possible for such a chaotic environment to result in the remarkable order of the planet and its contents, the systems of its operation and control, or the diversity and complexity of the forms and beings that occupy it, with their interdependence. As order does not arise from chaos, nor life from non-life, God’s record leaves no room to conclude that things came to be through random natural processes, that the systems of the universe assembled themselves, or that life suddenly arose from non-life.
“All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him was no thing brought into being, which was brought into being.”
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth …. And God said, ‘Let there be …. and there was…” God, The Word, brought into being all which exists outside of God, by speaking the Word “Let there be…” (Genesis 1)
When God declares, “Let there be…”, it must happen as He declares. And as God spoke, it came to pass exactly as He declared: the universe, its contents and systems became, at the word God spoke. “God made” in accordance with what God said.
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