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What Stood Out & First Thoughts

The first thing that stands out to me is not just that God created the heavens and the earth, but that God was already there before anything else had a beginning.
That makes me wonder: why did God even bother creating anything if He already knew from the very beginning how everything would unfold? If God has no beginning and no end, what existed before this moment? Was there only darkness? Did time even exist before God created? Or did time begin when creation began?
I also wonder how God knew His own power before He spoke creation into being. Maybe that sounds strange, because God is God, but from my human mind I still ask it. Did anything…

Questions / Connected Thoughts

1. John 1:1–3 — The beginning before the beginning
John starts with the same words as Genesis: “In the beginning.” Genesis tells me God created the heaven and the earth, but John pushes me deeper by showing that the Word was already with God, was God, and that nothing was made without Him.

2. Psalm 33:6–9 — Creation by the word of God
This connects to the way Genesis keeps saying, “And God said.” God does not seem to struggle creation into existence; He speaks, and what did not exist begins to obey His command.

3. Isaiah 45:18 — Creation was not pointless
Isaiah says God created the earth “not in vain” but formed it to be inhabited. That connects to one of my biggest questions: if God knew everything from the beginning, why create at all? This verse points me toward the idea that creation had purpose before …