My Father’s World (5)

Christ is the firstborn of every creature. With that thought we left our discussion last time. It cannot be a chronological distinction here, as we pointed out. And we may add that in God there never is any chronological distinction as far as His eternal thoughts and desires are concerned. With God you can never speak of this or that arising first or last in His mind from a chronological point of view. We think of various objects or abstract entities in a certain succession of thoughts. As we...