Secrets of Gen 1.1

SECRETS OF GENESIS 1:1
PROF. M. M. NINAN
Kenosis
This is probably referring to the tzimtzum where God gave up his Omnipotence, Omniscience and
Omnipresence to give space for beings - his children to grow up in his likeness.
or
Alternately,
The Son of God took the fire of judgment by his own hands on the cross for his creation even
before they were born.
This theology is often referred to as
This evidently (in both interpretations) points to the kenotic aspect of creation. God has to
empty himself (destroy or die himself) to provide a home. That was creation “in the beginning.”
Later He himself left aside his glories and took the form of man to be at home with his family which
he created and finally died on the cross to redeem them from the fire and destruction. This ethics
is the ethic of sacrifice - the Kenosis.
God’s nature is self-emptying love and it is reflected right from the “beginning” bereshit of creation.
Christ Jesus: Php 2:6 - 7 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality
with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross
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