ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite ‘Akosi 29, 2017

‘Oku ma‘uma‘uluta ‘a e ‘univeesí ‘iate Ia

Fehuʻi #5

Ko e hā ha toe me‘a na‘e fakatupu ‘e he ‘Otuá ?

(What else did God create?)

Na‘e fakatupu ‘e he ‘Otuá ‘a e me‘a kotoa pe ‘aki ‘a e mālohi ‘o ‘Ene Folofolá  pea na‘e lelei ‘a e me‘a kotoa; na‘e lato ‘a e me‘a kotoa ‘i he malumalu ‘o ‘ene pule anga‘ofá.

(God created all things by his powerful Word, and all his creation was very good; everything flourished under his loving rule)

Komeniteli ‘a Keni Hausia

Commentary – R. Kent Hughes

‘I he‘etau a‘u mai ki he Fuakava Fo‘oú pea mo e levelēsio ‘oku toe kakato ange fekau‘aki mo Sisu Kalaisí, ‘oku tau ako ai ‘o ‘ilo na‘e fakatupu ‘e Kalaisi ‘a e ‘univeesí. ‘A ia ko e laine ‘uluaki ‘o e koosipeli ‘a Sione, “ ‘I he kamata‘angá  kuo ‘i ai ‘a FOLOFOLA, pea na‘e feangai mo e ‘Otuá ‘a Folofola, pea na‘e ‘Otua ‘a Folofola. Ko e toko taha ko iá na‘e ‘i he kamata‘anga, ‘o feangai mo e ‘Otua. Ko e hoko mai ‘a e me‘a kotoa pē na‘e fou ‘iate ia; pea na‘e ‘ikai ha momo‘i me‘a ‘e taha ‘e hoko mai, ‘o ‘ata‘atā mo ia” (Sioné 1:1-3). Pea ko e me‘a ‘oku hā atu hení ko e Kalaisi ia ‘o e ‘univeesí, ko e Fakatupu ‘o e me‘a kotoá. ‘Ikai ngata aí, ka ‘oku fakatahataha‘i ‘e Paula ongo fo‘i mo‘oni ko ení ‘ia 1 Kolinito 8:6 ‘i he‘ene pehē, ko ‘etau mo‘uí (hoko mai ki mamaní) ko e ngaue ‘a e ‘Otua pe taha ko e Tamai pea mo e ‘Eiki pe ‘e taha ko Sisu Kalaisí. ‘Oku fālute ‘a e me‘a kotoa ‘e kinaua.

When we come to the New Testament and the fuller revelation of Jesus Christ, we learned that the cosmos is created by Christ himself. So the opening line of the gospel of John, “in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, and without him was not anything made that was made.” And so what we have here is the cosmotic Christ, the creator of all things. In fact, the apostle Paul brings both together in 1 Corinthians 8:6 when he says that our existence is due to the one God and father and the one Lord Jesus Christ. All our existence depends on them.