Genesis 1:1
In the Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1-3
In the Beginning
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
The statement "in the beginning" is often studied and can be complex phrase, a very complex one…Or is this statement in the beginning, as simple as only introducing us to the Bible and to the beginning of creation, as God creates the heavens and earth?...Or do these three simple words mean much more?...If we think about this statement, in the beginning, we know that it has been read and studied by millions…Does it mean at one definite time (a specific point in time), at the exact beginning?...Does it means around the time of the beginning?...Does in the beginning mean time started right then?...And if so, does that mean there was no time before in the beginning?...Or does it mean a length of time from one time in the beginning until some other point in time later a little further from the beginning, as we get more and other references about the time of creation?...For instance, does in the beginning mean the first seven days?...Or is the statement in the beginning more of a general statement than it about seven days?...And did anything happen in the beginning or at the beginning, such as did creation start after that exact point in time, as stated earlier?…The original author of Genesis and God really only know the answer to these questions…
And as we think about the statement in the beginning, does it precede the first seven days of creation and is there this duration of time that is before creation?...Could anything physical exist before or around, or in the beginning?...What Great Source started the beginning, and could this Source have lived before the beginning?...
For me things do get more complex about this statement as one thinks more and more about it...And it gets very complex when John writes in his gospel that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...Jesus was with God in the beginning...Through Jesus all things are made; without Him nothing was made that has been made...As John introduces us to Jesus, we read that Jesus was with God in the beginning...That Jesus is the Word of God...And that all things that have been created are created through Jesus...So God, as well as Jesus, has existed from the beginning, and in the beginning...There has been this coexistence of the Two...There has been this Duality from from the very beginning and in the beginning...This must and have to imply Jesus does have a very special relationship with God, and this relationship has been from the beginning of time...Jesus and God seem to have always existed, before the beginning of time and now after creation...Being with God, explains the authority and power that God has given Jesus as He walks and teaches us the things He did on the earth...
There is is this Great Mystery of in the beginning...But we know that in the beginning creation did happen...The Maker of creation is more important than creation itself...And we might see this and find this in these sacred words "in the beginning"...