What was God doing before creation existed?

It's your deep preloaded assumptions about what the word God means will come out in that question.

I'm John Collins. This is the Bible Project and today we welcome you to the final episode in a long

series of conversations about the identity of God. The Trinity. That's right. We're going to talk

about the Trinity. It's a subject we've been dancing around for a while now, God being one,

but also talked about in the New Testament as having three distinct identities, Father, Son,

and Spirit. We've explored the backstory of this Christian belief about God and now we're going

to get to the heart of it. And one way to do that is to think about God's existence before creation.

If you accept the claims of the apostles, they're inviting you to see and answer to that question.

It's summarized in a statement Jesus makes in John 17 where he talks about Father, you loved me

before the creation of the world. John 17 verse 24. There's a handful of times in the gospel of

John Jesus talks about the glory which I had before the foundations of the world or before creation.

But here we get this window into Jesus' experience of his Father for eternity past. And it's the

word love, a relationship love. And so if that's fundamental, if the eternal state of God for a

Christian is the Father loving the Son in and through Spirit, that has the power to completely

revolutionize your concept of God and that's what the Trinity has done. The Trinity is the belief that

God is a community of love. Somehow God loved Jesus before the world was even created.

So what does that mean for us? To view God as a Trinity never stops at the Trinity because the whole

point is that this God is inviting all creation into the love. By essence the Father loves the Son

and so sends out the Son so that others can be invited into the family of love.

So today on the podcast we dive into the Christian concept of the Trinity. Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

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