Genesis 1:1
God Creates the Living Creatures
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
Deuteronomy 18:18-22
The Prophet
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
John 1:1-5
The Word Became Flesh
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. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
John 8:58
Before Abraham
58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
Colossians 1:15-20
The Image of God
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
These verses are about creation and also about the Messiah...These different verses are from the four books of Genesis, Deuteronomy, John, and Colossians...And they were written by three different authors...The three authors write that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...Moses wrote Genesis and Deuteronomy...St. John wrote the Gospel According to John, and St. Paul wrote the Colossians...All three men believe that God created the heavens, our earth, and our universe...All three men write about a Messiah...
The three authors all write about a Messiah and Prophet that was to come and did come to earth...Moses wrote about God and how He would send this Messiah...Moses wrote about the Messiah, which was written over one thousand years before the Messiah actually would come to earth...St. John was an eyewitness to the Messiah, and when He actually came to earth...St. John knew the Messiah personally as Jesus...St. Paul wrote about the Messiah, and Jesus, after He resurrected and left the earth...So we have three men, one who wrote about Him long before He came to earth, one who was with Him for three years, and another author and man, who would write about Him after His death...And St. Paul who wrote about Jesus, would personally know some or many of the men that Jesus was with while He was on earth...
All three men believed in God and believed in our Messiah...They all believe He still lives, even after their own deaths...They all believe that in the beginning, the heavens and earth were created by God...They believe that God not only created the earth, but would send a Messiah to help man...These statements and verses were made at different times in mankind's history, the statements were made in different circumstances, but are these verses are very similar in nature...In the beginning God created the heavens and earth...
Moses hints that Someone was with God in the beginning, when He says "let us make man in Our Image"...God did not say let Me make man in My image...Moses writes and uses the words "us" and "our"...Moses uses "us" a couple more times in Genesis, when God is speaking to lead us to believe there is someone with God...St. John and St. Paul go further and teach us that when God created the earth Jesus was there with God...St. John says Jesus was with God in the beginning...Through Jesus all things were made through Him...Without Jesus nothing was made that has been made...St. Paul tells us that all things were created in the Image of the Invisible God...St. Paul adds that all things were created by Jesus and for Jesus...St. John also writes when he was with Jesus, that He said Jesus was around even before Abraham existed...Which helps us better understand or at least better understand the fact that Jesus was with God in the beginning...
Three of the greatest believers in God give us a foundation for our Christian faith...All three men believe in the beginning God created our earth...All three believe that we would need and get a Messiah from God...Moses got to experience God personally for forty years in the desert...Moses would write the first five books of our Bible about God and God's people...St. John would personally know Jesus, be one of His Original Disciples, and also write five books of our Bible...St. Paul would visit the disciples and learn about Jesus and would write thirteen books of our Bible (and be a big part of the Acts written by Luke)...These early believers give us hope, and strengthen our faith...These early authors are authors and contributors to twenty three of the books of the Bible...