In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth (Genesis 1:1).  There is so much to be said for this first chapter of the Bible. There is more here than most of us really realize. Especially when we get into the second chapter that follows,

   First of all let's look at the first few words: "In the beginning God..." Lets pause here for a moment. In the beginning, God. God; the Great I Am, Master Creator of all that is or ever will be, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.

   When it comes down to it all, He is all there really is, He is, and nothing without Him exists. All things came from Him, therefore all things must abide in Him and all things return to Him.

  We came from Him and must abide in Him. If we do not abide in Him, it is a violation of our own nature and a further violation not to return to Him.

    To fully understand this, though, let's start at the beginning We see in the first chapter of Genesis, the six day creation process. In chapter two, the seventh verse, is the detailed process of creating man. Man is first formed, wrought, sculpted, by God's own hand. It was necessary for God, Himself, to kneel down in the mud to accomplish this task, Then it is said, He breathed the breath of life, or another way of putting it; He imparted His essence into man. This was done by God; The Master Creator of all, bending further down to breathe the breath of life into the nostrils of man, to give him life: His life. Man is now a living being that exists by the essence of God, Himself. A being capable of creating, feeling, learning; with the further ability of free will; the right to choose his own end. Moreover, a god. T.his is pointed out in Psalms 82:6 and again Jesus references it in John 10:34. A god, but one that needs the fellowship of his creator to continue to live. Without his connection and fellowship with the Creator, God, he will only die. He cannot live without God. Simply put, as Paul states in Romans 8:6, the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. One of the attributes of a god is self will, the right to choose. we can choose life or death. God does not force Himself upon us, He offers us a choice (Deuteronomy 30:15-20). We choose our own destiny.

  If we choose to have a relationship with God, He will honor His promises of providence and protection. We need this because, though we are gods in the spiritual sense, we still live in mortal flesh. Mortal flesh is corrupt because of disobedience, thus the need for redemption by the Salvation that Jesus gave His life on the cross for and His subsequent resurrection providing that redemption. With redemption our spirit has a connection to God by His Spirit. God created man this way for the purpose of fellowship with Him. Essentially an equal with whom He could share His wisdom, knowledge and especially, love. The problem with man, however, is his disobedience to the Creator. This disobedience caused a separation from the Creator and is now born a dying god. This happened when Adam (the first man) ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He did exactly what God told him not to do and this disobedience separated him from the fellowship with God he was originally created for; thus violating his intended purpose. This disobedience, of course, caused the death that now continues with man.

The only way to reconcile this disobedience and give back to man the life he once had was through a blood sacrifice. Since disobedience originated in the flesh, it could only be answered for in the flesh. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin (Hebrews 9:22). Either man had to die, or there had to be a propitiation, a representative for him. The only truly sufficient propitiation for this disobedience would have to be God, Himself. For this to take place, God would have to become mortal flesh, like man, and die a man's death: one of punishment for the disobedience committed. This is the only way to reconcile man back to God, But because of man's now sin nature, He must, by the free will with which he was created, accept, this sacrifice as sufficient, repent of his sin nature, and surrender his will to God's (1 John 1:9). In this way, he returns to the fellowship with God for which he was originally intended and the eternal life he once had. However since man now lives in a sin (separation from God) nature, the flesh (that is, the selfish desires) must surrender to obedience to God so that the spirit may live eternally.