Hey Alex,
Is it kind of like what Ray said in his video " Does God Learn " where Ray talks about the struggle and travail God went through when He birthed wisdom ? That the scriptures tell a story of what happened before the world was ? Also, I wonder what happened between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 where it says God created the heavens and the earth and the earth became void and without form ? Thanks, Jonathan.
Yes, God birthing wisdom certainly gives us some idea about the pain and longsuffering of our great God and Saviour. That very, VERY, hard work that God did before the creation even existed so that we could be called sons and daughters of His.
Similarly consider too that God overcame some kind of evil during His existance before creation ever was seeing as how God is good and in Him there is no evil yet despite this He possess the knowledge of evil. Where did that knowledge come from for Him to make it apart of this creation?
We are very limited in our understanding of these things that happened before the creation was as there is not very much in scripture about this time and even what is there must be gleaned with tremendous spiritual wisdom.
Ray talks in great detail about Genesis in his audio on the creation from a conference he did:
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,9502.0.htmlGenesis 1:1 more properly reads, "In the beginning God had already created [Heb: Bara] the heavens and the earth."
With the necessary pieces in place God began His work of making [Heb: Asah] the heavens and the earth.
God bless,
Alex