The Christian Doctrine of Creation
John 1:3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.


I. THE PURIFICATION OF THE HEATHEN DOCTRINE: obviating the eternity of matter.

II. THE DEEPENING OF THE JEWISH DOCTRINE of the Shekinah: clearly pronouncing the personal life of love in God as it enters into the world.

III. THE GLORIFICATION OF THE SOUND DOCTRINE of scientific investigation: man the final cause of things; the God Man the final cause of man.

IV. THE VERDICT OF THE SPIRIT respecting the derivation of the world from a non-spiritual source: materialism.

(Lange.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

WEB: All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.




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