Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
We know that God spoke all things into existence. In the Latin, the term is ex nihilo – out of nothing. He spoke and it was. But how did he speak without the being a language to speak. Before he created the heavens and the earth, God had to create a language with which to speak all things into existence.
When we visited Qumran, the sight of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, our tour guide, Tony, shared this thought. The word ‘the’ in Hebrew is made up of two hebrew letters…the first letter in the alphabet and the last letter in the alphabet. When these two letters are together, they represent the entire Hebrew alphabet. Therefore, the implication in the verse is that the first thing God created was the language.
Cool thought. What is cooler is to know that Jesus, who is called the Word of God, was the one creating this language. Colossians says “all things came into existence by him”.
The Word created words.
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