Were Jesus and the Holy Spirit with God in the beginning?

Answer 1

Some other answers from our community:

The underlying supposition, namely that someone or something could be with God is a violation of the theologies of all three major monotheistic faiths.

Judaism: The Second Line of the Yigdal prayer (seen as codifying much of Jewish belief like the Nicene Creed for Christianity) discusses God as a Unity with nothing outside of him. Therefore the possibility of other Gods is moot. This is further elaborated by the Shema (one of the most holy Jewish prayers) which excerpts from Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear O' Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is One.

Christianity: The Book of John begins with "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." However, this does not indicate that God had somebody else with him. The line finishes with "and the word was God", indicating that this is just another facet of God's unity. God in Christianity has no equal, but does have different forms. The Father and Holy Spirit represents certain aspects of God and Christ represents other aspects of God, but nobody is equal to God.

Islam: Shirk, or the equating of other Gods to God, is one of the few offenses a Moslem can commit that would force him to revoke his Islam. Therefore, nothing could be with God at any point or time.

Answer 2

Yes.

Genesis 1:1, 2 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

John 1:1-3 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

A few verses later, John leaves no doubt that "the Word" refers to Jesus:

John 1:14 - And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

[Quotes from NKJV]

Answer 3

Wisdom, or 'Lady Wisdom', mentioned in the Book of Proverbs, was a spirit/goddess who became popular among the Jews from the time of the Babylonian Exile until the end of the first century CE. B. Lang (Wisdom and the Book of Proverbs: An Israelite Goddess Redefined) says that she was the Hebrew goddess of wisdom.

Proverbs 8:23-31 says that Wisdom was with God from the very beginning, from time everlasting.

Answer 4

The angels (Rashi commentary, Genesis 1:26). They had been created on the second day.See also:

Meaning of Wisdom

Were we created

Answer 5

The Scripture surely states more than one being as follows:

Genesis 1:26 -New International Version (NIV):

26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

The first term for 'God' is Elohim often called a majestic plural fitting the pronoun 'us.' John 1:1-3 goes further and defines the other being as the Word who became Jesus Christ in a Father-Son relationship of two God beings. Remember, God was hovering over the darkened and submerged under water world (re-creation account here) in Spirit so the other being had to be Spirit also.

Jesus spoke of Him being in the Father and the Father being in Him. He who saw Jesus saw the Father. This further defines the oneness of the God Family.

Answer 6

John ch 1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...". Is that what you were meaning?