Three Scriptures April 6, 2010

Here are the 3 Scripture Readings
1.Genesis 1:1-5 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%201&version=NIV
2.Acts 17:28 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2017:28&version=NIV
3.John 1:1-5 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%201&version=NIV

The Bible Gateway gives us the readings from the Holy Scripture. Here is the commentary:
1.1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

First of all, ab initio, in the beginning---beginning has no beginning---it is beginning. Note the present, beginning is not past! Beginning is always and everywhere the same---hence cannot be 'past'. (Note John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.) 'All things'...and 'nothing'---it is all comprehended in this act of beginning---the act of creation of the the material universe, of all that is seen and unseen. From whatever phenomenon we begin with, we are led inexorably to this origin (ab origine). Time, temporality is not in the beginning---time follows the act of creation. Space does not precede this act of creation.

The Act
The act of Creation is God's word "And God said, "Let there be light." (Genesis 1:3).

Temporality
In the beginning---the everpresent Now.

Space
Now we turn to St. Paul's speech in the Acts of the Apostles:
'For in him we live and move and have our being.' Spatiality is revealed 'in Him': in Him we move. If you will the architecture of universal being.

The Foundation of Physics
The primary objects of creation is heaven and the earth. Earth (matter) is formless...darkness hovers over the deep...and the Spirit of God is hovering over the waters. Note that a.water is primordial as is b.the deep (abyss, void), and earth, which I take to mean the foundations of the material universe or what physicists call matter (and anti-matter).

The Heavens
Heaven is created first---it precedes matter, temporality and spatiality---we might say it is fabric or underlying ground. Heaven is hidden from sight...it is separated from all of the particular acts of creation, yet it is created. We might say pre-water, pre-light. "Of all that is seen and unseen. Light from light."

Light
Notice: light is good.

Separated
Light is separated from darkness. This is why light remains such a difficult phenomenon to grasp! Mankind is paradoxically 'in the dark' regarding light. That is, at least, until the light comes into the world and is revealed---seen, touched, grasped via Christ )"the word became flesh").

Human Understanding
Human understanding is 'darkened' until the light is revealed---the truth is hidden and separated out in the interstices of matter. When the light comes, then we can see.

The Light that Lights The World
Every person or soul who comes into the world is enlightened:
"The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.(John 1:9)"
But the light is lost---
"He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. (John 1:10-11)."

This Morning
Today we open our eyes from sleep, we awaken from the darkness of our dreams. This is the day that the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it! This day opens from the beginning, this day overlaps the beginning---this is the beginning---the everpresent now. We are living and moving and being within God. The material universe stretches before us, above us, within us. Now we see the light thanks to the word that we believe:
"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.(John 1:12-13)."

Revelation
When the light shines into the darkness, the darkness cannot overcome or extinguish it. It can be recieved---it is received---we receive it. This light enlightens us in truth. That which is hidden, is revealed when the light penetrates into the darkest recesses of the void. Physics, quantum mechanics...none of this is penetrable or penetrated save revelation. If mankind is grasping the truth of subatomic particles in our time, this means that God is allowing this truth to be revealed. All of the truth that is hidden in the beginning is revealed in Christ, the true light.
We read the signs of our times: finally scientists are penetrating the truth that has been hidden from the foundation of the world. All that they dicover is "formless void"---but for those who receive the True Light understand that the truth is the word made flesh---Jesus Christ. What is hidden from the ages is revealed in Christ this very day for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see!!!