In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:1-3).

It is essential for us to know and accept, by faith, the truth that everything was made through “the Word.”

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light (Gen 1:1-3).

The particular verbal form of “Let there be …” is called “jussive.” It indicates the wish of the speaker upon another person or thing that is the subject of the verb. God saw that “the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the deep,” and thought that something was very wrong. He first wished to have “light” there. So he spoke the word, “Let there be light,” and that word came to be fulfilled. In fact, the whole Bible is what God spoke in this way to accomplish what he desired for humanity. Every word he spoke must be fulfilled and will be.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so (v. 11).

Note the pattern, “God said, …. And it was so”—God’s speaking of the word followed by its fulfillment. Note also, especially here, how the “seed” and “seed-bearing” (both come from the same root) are repeated. Every seed carries its own gene that controls the characteristics and the growth of that particular plant, and every gene is unique. And the plant we see is the fulfillment of its own gene. The whole world including humans were created and exist in this system of “seed” and “seed-bearing.” And this is true in a spiritual sense as well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (Ps 139:15-16).

All the days formed for you—what life you will have, the purpose and tasks of your life as well as your characteristics—were already determined and written in God’s book even before your first birthday. This determination is in your spiritual gene. And if it is a gene, it must have been handed down from somebody else?

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground (Gen 1:26)."

Note again that we humans came to exist as the fulfillment of God’s word. And what is significant particularly here is the “image” and “likeness” of God in which we were made—the spiritual gene that we inherited from God. We were all created as God’s children.

… the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (2:7).

Here, the spiritual gene in us is expressed as “the breath of life” which came from God’s mouth. What we see in each one of us is the result of God’s breath—the fulfillment of every word that comes out of his mouth.