In The Beginning

Well, one of my new year resolutions or tasks that I have listed to check off December 31, 2011 is to read the whole Bible.  I am on day two and so far it is going really well. LOL I had really planned on getting my reading done much earlier in the day, but hey...baby steps right?  At least it is the 2nd day of the new year and I am caught up.

The reading so far was Genesis 1-2, John 1:1-3, Psalm 8, and Psalm 104.  It just feels good to read God's Word.  Even the part's you have read before.  It helps reinforce what you believe and know to be true, and it helps to answer questions you might have been thinking about for a while.  Then again, it will also create additional questions.  It seems like just one big cycle and as you continue to answer question after question you find yourself growing in wisdom and knowledge, but always having more questions.

We all have friends that have different beliefs about certain things in the Bible.  Some believe in speaking in tongues, baptism saves you, you need to be sprinkled, the trinity is 3 different people, etc...etc...

I love everyone of my friends who believe differently than I do, but you guys are just wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong.  In love of course.  We have some really good friends who are Apostolic Pentecostal.  I love these guys to death and they are amazing people.  I have a lot of fun with them because they do not believe in the Trinity.  They will not even listen to me when I try and give scripture as evidence or testimony.  The wife of our dear friends would always say, "We will just agree to disagree on this one Greg."  I always laugh when she says that, because I am always thinking...uh....no, I can't agree to disagree.  It's really funny.  I guess you would have to be there.

My reading made me think of them because there are two scriptures in my reading that I would use when talking about the Trinity with them.  The first one is actually in the second verse of the Bible.  I think it is really cool because not only in verse one does it declare that "In The Beginning God Created the Heavens and Earth, but in verse two it tells us that His Spirit (Holy Spirit) was with Him hanging out hovering over the waters God created.

The second verse is one you will definitely recognize.  In John 1 verses 1 through 3 it states, "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word (Jesus) was with God (Father).  He (Jesus) was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made."

So just in these couple verses we have the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  I think it is pretty cool.