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The story told by the Bible begins and ends with “creation.” From its opening words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1), to its final depiction of the world transformed into “a new heaven and a new earth” (Rev 21:1), Scripture presents the story of the world as God’s creation project.
- The Doctrine
The question of whether or not God created everything in the...
- The Doctrine
Jan 1, 2001 · As a summary of some of the issues, the Bible teaches us God created both the angels and man with volition, or the freedom of choice. He created both as holy and without sin that they might not only serve Him as the Creator, but bring Him glory. In particular, man, being created in God’s image (Gen. 1:26 f), was created to have fellowship ...
Jan 5, 2023 · God’s creation reveals much about God. His invisible attributes, eternal power, and divine nature are clearly seen and understood in creation. We gain knowledge of who He is by examining His creation. When we observe the over 100 billion galaxies, we see the glory and might of God. When we study the intricacies of a living cell, we see the ...
Mar 11, 2016 · 8) Then in the eighth place there is stewardship over creation. 9) In the ninth place there is in Genesis 2 a kind of ordering and structure. In 1:26–27 we read, “Let us make man in our image.”. So men and women are both made equally in the image of God, but in a kind of binary way.
- Introduction
- “In The Beginning, God”
- God Created “The Heavens and The Earth”
- God Is Source and Sustainer of Everything
- God Created Everything Good
- God Invested His Creatures with Responsibility and Significance
- The Diversity in Creation Is Suggestive of The Trinity
- God’s Creating Is Not The Same as Human Creating
It is hard to imagine that there is any topic within Christianity that has been responsible for more debate and disagreement than the doctrine of creation. The question of whether or not God created everything in the universe is a line in the sand, so to speak, that immediately divides everyone in the world into two camps: those who believe in crea...
The first four words of the Bible place immediate emphasis upon God. They tell us from the very beginning that before anything else in the universe existed, God already was. Nothing brought him into being. Nothing gave him existence. He was around long before anything else was. He was around long before there was even such a thing as time itself. G...
When the Bible says that God “created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1), it does not mean to suggest that he only created those two things and nothing else. The Bible is here employing a figure of speech called merism, in which two contrasting terms are used to express totality. We do the same thing regularly in our marriage vows when we pledge...
The fact that God is the only uncreated and eternal being in the universe, who is also creator of all, means that he is the source and sustainer of everything that exists. We not only “have our being” in him, but we “live and move” in him as well (Acts 17:28; cf. Heb. 1:3; 2 Pet. 3:7). This means that every person in the universe is subject to God ...
These initial aspects of the doctrine of creation also mean that good and evil are not competing powers in the universe, as dualistic worldviews might suggest. God is good, and the creation he brings into existence reflects that goodness. Evil—which I take to be an anti-God posture, what the Bible calls ungodliness—was not a part of the original cr...
The fact that God created humankind in his image and invested us with the right to exercise dominion means that we are stewards of his creation and accountable to him for how well we care for what he has made. We are responsible not only for how we personally take care of God’s creation as individuals, but for how everyone else does as well. After ...
The human race is incredibly diverse. Differences in physical appearance, gender, mental capability, personality, gifting, and relationship all exist in the human race from the moment of creation. The fact that God has created the entire human race in His own image indicates that his image obviously encompasses the incredible diversity that we see ...
As mentioned previously, God’s creative action is different from ours. When we make something, we use pre-existing materials to do it. We do not create anything that did not already exist. But when God created the universe, he did not use anything that was pre-existing, because “in the beginning” God alone existed. This means that God created the u...
Jun 4, 2024 · Genesis 1:1-3 (RSV) “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.”.
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The meaning of “In the beginning,” and of “the heaven and the earth.”. ii. The idea in the word “created.”. iii. Other explanations of the origin of the world. iv. In what sense God continues to create. II. The Creator.
