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you...” (Jeremiah 1:5), and “And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name
has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been
slain” (“Revelation 13:8). What is indisputable is that, in your bodily form as a descendant of Adam,
you had a definite beginning.

The same is true of the Son of God. Perhaps He always existed in the mind of the Father. Yet even
as a thought does not take on substance until a man exhales his breath and forms a word that others
can hear, so too there was a definite point in time when Yahweh breathed out His Spirit and formed
“the Living Word.” That Yahshua is a part of the creation of God is plainly stated in the Bible.

Revelation 3:14
The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this...

Colossians 1:15
And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation.

Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did He ever say, "You are My Son, today I have begotten Thee"?

Of God the Father no similar statement can be made. There was not a day in which the Father was
begotten. He was not generated by another. He always has been. He is the great I AM.

Isaiah 43:10
Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me.

Part of the confusion that exists in the church today regarding the Son of God’s origin and beginning
comes from a lack of patient and careful consideration of the Scriptures. There are a number of
passages of the Bible that declare the Son to be one with the Father.

John 10:30
“I and the Father are one.”

Some have assumed that this statement means that there is no difference between them. Such a
conclusion does not stand up to scrutiny. Most assuredly there are differences between them. One