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(1.) the act by which God calls into existence things not previously in being-material or spiritual, visible or invisible, Ps 148:5; Re 4:11; (2.) the molding or reconstituting things, the elements of which previously existed; and (3.) the things thus "created and made," 2Pe 3:4; Re 3:14; 5:13. It is probably in the first of these senses the word "created" is to be understood in Ge 1:1, though some understand it in the second sense. In either case the idea of the eternity of matter is to be rejected, as contrary to sound reason and to the teachings of Scripture, Pr 8:22-31; Joh 1:1-3; Heb 11:3.
Creation is exclusively the work of God. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each in turn named as its author, Isa 40:28; Col 1:16; Ge 2:2. It is a work the mysteries of which no finite mind can apprehend; and yet, as it reveals to us the invisible things of God, Ro 1:20, we may and ought to learn what he reveals respecting it not only in revelation, but in his works. These two volumes are from the same divine hand, and cannot but harmonize with each other. The Bible opens with an account of the creation unspeakably majestic and sublime. The six days there spoken of have usually been taken for our present natural days; but modern geological researches have given rise to the idea that "day" here denotes a longer period. The different rocks of our globe lie in distinct layers, the comparative age of which is supposed to have been ascertained. Only the most recent have been found to contain human remains. Older layers present in turn different fossil remains of animals and plants, many of them supposed to be now extinct. These layers are deeply imbedded beneath the present soil, and yet appear to be formed of matter washed into the bed of some primeval sea, and hardened into rock. Above this may lie numerous other strata of different materials, but which appear to have been deposited in the same manner, in the slow lapse of time. These layers are also thrown up and penetrated all over the world by rocks of still earlier formations, apparently once in a melted state.
There are several modes of reconciling these geological discoveries with the statements of Scripture: First, that the six days of Ge 1.1-31 denote six long epochs-periods of alternate progressive formation and revolution on the surface of the earth. To the Lord "a thousand years are as one day," Ps 90:2,4; 2Pe 3:5-10; Re 20. Secondly, that the long epochs indicated in the geological structure of the globe occurred before the Bible account commences, or rather in the interval between the first and second verses of Ge 1. According to this interpretation, Ge 1:2 describes the state of the earth at the close of the last revolution it experienced, preparatory to God's fitting it up for the abode of man as described in the verses following. Thirdly, that God compressed the work of those untold ages into six short days, and created the world as he did Adam, in a state of maturity, embodying in its rocks and fossils those rudimental forms of animal and vegetable life which seem naturally to lead up to the existing forms.
The "Creature" and "the whole creation," in Ro 8:19-22, may denote the irrational and inferior creation, which shall be released from the curse, and share in the glorious liberty of the sons of God, Isa 11:6; 35:1; 2Pe 3:7-13. The bodies of believers, now subject to vanity, are secure of full deliverance at the resurrection-"the redemption of our body," Ro 8:23.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.
Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.
In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.
Let them praise the name of Jehovah for they were created by his command.
Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity. I was made from long ago, before the earth began. read more. When there were no depths or fountains abounding with water, I was brought forth. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth: He had not made the earth or the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he circled the face of the deep: When he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his command, when he appointed the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside him, as a master workman with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. I rejoiced in the inhabited earth. My delights were with the sons of men.
The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them.
The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? JEHOVAH IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and no one can measure (find out) his understanding.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like). The same was in the beginning with God. read more. All things were made through him and without him not one thing was made.
His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,
For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation (revelation) (disclosure) of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope. read more. The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now. We also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption and the release from our bodies by ransom.
All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.
Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation says this:
You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and because of your will they are and were created.
I heard every creature in heaven and on earth. I also heard those under the earth, in the sea, and all that are in them. They said: Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever.
Easton
In the beginning God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things exists only in the will of God. The work of creation is attributed (1) to the Godhead (Ge 1:1,26); (2) to the Father (1Co 8:6); (3) to the Son (Joh 1:3; Col 1:16-17); (4) to the Holy Spirit (Ge 1:2; Job 26:13; Ps 104:30). The fact that he is the Creator distinguishes Jehovah as the true God (Isa 37:16; 40:12-13; 54:5; Ps 96:5; Jer 10:11-12). The one great end in the work of creation is the manifestation of the glory of the Creator (Col 1:16; Re 4:11; Ro 11:36). God's works, equally with God's word, are a revelation from him; and between the teachings of the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no contradiction.
Traditions of the creation, disfigured by corruptions, are found among the records of ancient Eastern nations. (See Accad.) A peculiar interest belongs to the traditions of the Accadians, the primitive inhabitants of the plains of Lower Mesopotamia. These within the last few years have been brought to light in the tablets and cylinders which have been rescued from the long-buried palaces and temples of Assyria. They bear a remarkable resemblance to the record of Genesis.
Illustration: Clay Tablet with Assyrian Account of Creation
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. 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.
By his wind the heavens were made fair. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
For all the gods of the nations are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.
You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.
O Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale? Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?
For your Maker is your husband. Jehovah of Hosts is his name! The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the God of all the earth.
You will say to the idolaters: The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens. He who made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisdom; also stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
All things were made through him and without him not one thing was made.
For from him, and through him, and to him are all things: Glory to him forever! Amen.
But to us there is but one God, the Father. All things come from him and we live for him. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made through him and we were made through him.
All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. He is before all things, and through him all things originate.
You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and because of your will they are and were created.
Fausets
Science and revelation being from the same God cannot be mutually opposed. But either, or both, may be misinterpreted; and there have been as many false interpretations of the book of nature as of revelation. As the Copernican theory was ultimately found not to militate against, but to harmonize with, Scripture, when the language of the latter was better understood; so no real scientific discovery ever since has been found adverse to full belief in revelation, when the latter has been better understood. The full knowledge of both has ever advanced side by side. The Bible, having not scientific but religious truth for its object, speaks in phenomenal language, which in part even the scientific have to do, as in the phrases sunrise and sunset. Creation, in the strict sense of the first origination of being out of nothing, does not come within the scope of science.
It is by the Bible alone, and through faith we understand that the worlds were framed (fitly formed) by the word of God, so that not (as, from the analogy of things reproduced from previously existing and visible materials, one naturally would suppose) out of things which appear hath that which is seen been made" (Heb 11:3). No human being was witness of creation (Job 38:4). Geology traces ages ascending backward, marked by animal and vegetable existence, less and less highly organized the further back we go; but at last comes to a point beyond which it has no light, and I must fall back on revelation and faith for information. "In the beginning God created" the world, "the heaven and the earth" (Ge 1:1): "In the beginning the Word WAS" (Joh 1:1). Bara', "created," used of creating (1) the universe; (2) the sea monsters whose vastness causes amazement at God's power; (3) man, in the image of God (Ge 1:27).
Everywhere else God "makes" ('asah), as from an already created material, the firmament, sun and stars, and the brute (Ge 1:7,16,25), or "forms" (yaatsar) beasts out of the ground (Ge 2:19), and "builds up" (Ge 2:22 margin) the woman of the rib from man. The three verbs occur together (Isa 43:7). Bara' is confined to GOD's acts; the other two verbs are used also of man's acts. Though bara' extends to other acts of God besides the original creation, it is only in a secondary application, without reference to preexisting materials; still, except in the original creation, they are not excluded. Moreover, the contextual "in the beginning" can only mean an absolute beginning, in contrast to the previous nonexistence of the world and sole existence of the Creator.
This creation of all things out of nothing distinguishes the Bible from all pagan cosmogonies and philosophical speculations, which make matter eternal. The Creator's mode of "creating" is not revealed, but simply the fact, that it was by the putting forth of His will. Two narratives of creation, the latter (Ge 2:4, etc.) the supplement to the former (Genesis 1-2:), appear at the forefront as the basis of the Bible revelation. That in Ge 2:4, etc., evidently continues and recapitulates that in Genesis 1-2:3, in order to prepare the way for the account of paradise and man's fall. The first gives a clear summary of creation, man included, down to the sabbath rest from creation. The second concentrates attention on man. Accordingly, in the first Elohim (from 'alah "strong"), the name for the mighty God of creation in general, appears. In the second Jehovah (Yahweh, the personal God in covenant relation to man, the unchanging "I AM."
To mark the identity of this personal Jehovah with the Elohim of the previous part, the two, the personal and the generic names, are joined, Jehovah-Elohim "the Lord God." The mighty Elohim who created all things is also the Jehovah, who from the days of paradise down to the days of Moses, the writer of the pentateuch, has been in personal and unchangeable covenant relation with His people. Moreover, Jehovah, being derived from hawah, the Syriac and Chaldee for the Hebrew hayah "to be," must have come down from a time prior to the separation of the Hebrew from the Aramaeans, i.e., prior to Abraham (for Syriac was soon after quite distinct from Hebrew, Ge 31:47). The accounts of creation and of the construction of the tabernacle resemble each other (the world being God's great tabernacle, Psalm 19); the general plan first (Genesis 1), then the actual creation of the first pair, Eden, etc., next.
Scripture's design being to unfold redemption, only so much of the natural world is set forth as is needed for that design. Genesis 1 is not so much a full narrative of details as a revelation of the scheme in the Creator's mind, the archetype of the actual (Ge 2:4-5; Gesenius, Targum, and Syriac). "Now no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted forth, for the Lord God had not caused it to ram," etc. The earth already had brought forth grass (Ge 1:11); but no cultivated land and no vegetables fit for man's use existed yet; "plant," "field," "grew," do not occur in Genesis 1. In the pattern of the tabernacle shown on the mount the description begins with the furniture of the tabernacle, then goes on to the priests, and ends with the sabbatical law. So, in creation, the process begins with the lower creatures, plants, and animals, then, man, creation's priest, Eden, and lastly the sabbath.
Ge 1:1 teaches the religious truth needed for a right knowledge of God, that the world is not eternal, that God created it in the beginning; when that beginning was it does not state. But the high antiquity of the earth is expressly taught in Ps 90:2, where God's formation of "the earth" in general is distinguished from that of "the (Hebrew tebel) habitable world," Greek oikoumenee (Ps 102:25; Pr 8:22). Geology shows that creation occupied immense ages, but that man's creation was its closing act and at a comparatively recent date. Two views are held as to Genesis 1: The one that between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2 intervened the vast geological periods, and that these are undescribed in Genesis 1; and that Ge 1:2 describes the chaotic state which succeeded the last geological period before the earth's preparation for man; and that the description of the six days refers to this preparation.
If the seventh day sabbath in Ge 2:2 be an ordinary day, then the six days must be ordinary days and this view is favored. But geology seems to oppose any such state of the earth intervening between the preceding age and that of man's creation as could be described as" without form (desolate) and void." No universal convulsion (IF these words are to be pressed literally) separates the present orders of life from those preceding. No one series of stratified rocks is void of traces of life. Thus, we seem led to the conclusion (2) that the stage in the earth's progress when it became surrounded with chaotic waters (how long after "the beginning" we know not), described in Ge 1:2, is that which existed before the arrangement of its surface took place. (But see below.) The sabbath of God is described in Hebrew 3-4, as not yet ended; it will last until He who sitteth on the throne shall say, "Behold I make all things new."
God's creating this dark and desolate state of the earth was not in vain, but that in due time it might be "inhabited" (Isa 45:18). It was no "fortuitous concourse of atoms," or "laws of nature" acting independently of the continually active divine will of their Author. "The Spirit of God" as the Giver of life "brooded ('moved') upon the waters." Then began organic life, at first in the lower types. Sir W. Jones (Asiatic Researches) states that the Indian philosophers similarly believed (doubtless from the primitive tradition) that water was the first element and work of the creative power. "The waters are called Nara, since they are the offspring of Nera or Iwara, and thence was Narayana named, because His first moving was upon them. THAT WHICH IS (the exact meaning of the I AM or JEHOVAH), the invisible Cause eternal, self-existing, but unperceived, is Brahma."
This address of Menu, Brahma's son, to the sages who consulted him concerning the formation of the world, evidently corresponds with the revelation i
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters. Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light. God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness.
God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters.
Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters. God made the expanse. He separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. It was so.
God made the expanse. He separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. It was so.
Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so.
Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so.
Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so.
Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so. God called the dry land earth. The gathering of the waters He called seas. God saw that it was good.
God called the dry land earth. The gathering of the waters He called seas. God saw that it was good. Then God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them. It was so.
Then God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them. It was so.
Then God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
Then God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. It was so.
Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. It was so. God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also.
God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also.
God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also.
God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also. He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth.
He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth. The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.
The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.
God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.
God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.
God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.
God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. 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.
Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. 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. God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.
God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female. God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.
By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth. No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth. No plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth. There was no man to work the ground.
No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth. No plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth. There was no man to work the ground.
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Then Jehovah made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. He brought her to the man.
Then Jehovah made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. He brought her to the man.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
In his language, Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha (Witness Pile), but Jacob called it Galeed.
In his language, Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha (Witness Pile), but Jacob called it Galeed.
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning and evening he destroys his enemies.
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning and evening he destroys his enemies.
When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.
When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.
May the beloved of Jehovah dwell in security by him who shields him all the day. He dwells between his shoulders.
May the beloved of Jehovah dwell in security by him who shields him all the day. He dwells between his shoulders.
He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where does darkness reside?
Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where does darkness reside?
For He has ordained it upon the seas and decreed it upon the rivers.
For He has ordained it upon the seas and decreed it upon the rivers.
Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.
Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.
In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.
In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.
You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.
You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.
You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain.
You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain. You lay the beams of your upper chambers in the waters. You make the clouds your chariot. You walk upon the wings of the wind.
You lay the beams of your upper chambers in the waters. You make the clouds your chariot. You walk upon the wings of the wind.
You covered it with the deep like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.
You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.
You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.
You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.
Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity.
Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth: He had not made the earth or the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world.
He had not made the earth or the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he circled the face of the deep:
When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he circled the face of the deep: When he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,
When he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,
Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?
Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?
Bring everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.'
Bring everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.'
Jehovah says: Who created the heavens? He who is God. He fashioned and made the earth. He founded it and he did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. He says: I am Jehovah, and there is no other.
Jehovah says: Who created the heavens? He who is God. He fashioned and made the earth. He founded it and he did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. He says: I am Jehovah, and there is no other.
From the time that the continual burnt offering will be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.
From the time that the continual burnt offering will be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.
Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.
It will be a day known to Jehovah. It will not be day and it will not be night, but there will light in the evening.
It will be a day known to Jehovah. It will not be day and it will not be night, but there will light in the evening.
He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?
He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like).
Jesus responded to them: My Father works until now and I work.
Jesus responded to them: My Father works until now and I work.
We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.
We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.
From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.
From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later.
Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.
Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.
If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. He who enters into his rest also rests from his own works, just as God did from his.
He who enters into his rest also rests from his own works, just as God did from his.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.
Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)
Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)
Hastings
One of the most convincing proofs of the composite authorship of the Pentateuch has always been found in the existence side by side of two independent and mutually irreconcilable accounts of the creation of the world. The first, Ge 1:1 to Ge 2:4 a, forms the introduction of the Priestly Code (Priestly Narrative), which was compiled, as is now generally acknowledged, in the 5th cent. b.c. The second, Ge 2:4 bff., opens the Jahwistic document (Jahwist), whose latest portions must be dated at least a century and a half earlier than the compilation of Priestly Narrative. These two narratives, while expressing the same fundamental religious ideas, differ profoundly in their concrete conceptions of the process of creation. The account of Priestly Narrative starts with a description (Ge 2:2) of the primeval chaos
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters. read more. Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light. God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness. read more. God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters.
Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters. God made the expanse. He separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. It was so.
God made the expanse. He separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. It was so. God called the expanse heaven. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
God called the expanse heaven. There was evening and there was morning, a second day. Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so. read more. God called the dry land earth. The gathering of the waters He called seas. God saw that it was good. Then God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them. It was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind. God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day. Then God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. It was so. God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also. He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth. The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. God said: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind. It was so.
Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. 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.
By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
Morish
This word is principally applied to the act of bringing things into existence that did not exist before. This is expressed in Heb 11:3: "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." It is also applied to making new things out of material already in existence, thus, though man was 'made' of the dust of the ground, Ge 2:7, he is also said to have been created, the same Hebrew word, bara, being used in Ge 1:1 for the creation of the world, that is used in Ge 5:1-2, for the creation of man. The passage in Heb. 11 is important, because as men have no idea how anything can be brought into existence from nothing, they have talked of 'the eternity of matter;' the passage says it is 'by faith we understand' that the worlds were made by the word of God, so that seen things were not made of what is apparent.
The discoveries made by geologists of the various strata of the earth, the fossils found therein, together with the time that would necessarily be required for the formation of those strata, raised a cry that scripture must be incorrect in saying all was done in seven days. This led Christians to compare these works of God in creation with His words in scripture; and the principal question resolved itself into this: where in scripture could be found the many thousands of years which were apparently needed under ordinary circumstances for the formation of the strata? Putting aside the theories of the geologists, the facts are undeniable. There are the various beds of different substances in layers, which any one can see for themselves.
There are two ways in which Christians who have studied the subject hold that all difficulties are overcome.
1. That a long gap, of as many thousands of years as were necessary for the formation of the earth's crust, may be placed between verses 1 and 2 of Gen. 1. That Ge 1:1 refers to the original creation of the heaven and earth out of nothing; that the different beds were formed with the varying objects that are found therein as fossils, occupying a very long period. Then in Ge 1:2 another condition is found: the earth by some means had become without form and void.* It was then ordered in view of the creation of man; and the various things were arranged and formed in the six days as detailed in Gen. 1, as they are now found in and on the earth.
*Some suppose this to have been the work of Satan.
The principal objection to this is, that though there had been upheavals, depressions, earthquakes, sudden deaths, as evidenced by the contortions of fishes, in some of the early strata, there is no appearance after the various beds had been formed of what would answer to Ge 1:2, which says "the earth was without form and void."
2. The other theory is that Ge 1:1 and Ge 1:2 refer to the formation of the earth as matter, or that Ge 1:1 refers to the creation of the earth, and that Ge 1:2 refers to its being disordered by some means, as in the above theory, but that the various beds were formed with the fossils found therein during the six days recorded in Gen. 1; and that the days were of any needed indefinite length. It has been shown that the first things named as on the earth were grass and herbs, and these are always found in the lowest beds; and the other things created are found exactly in the same order upwards from the lowest, until man appears. These, in short, form three divisions: plants in the lowest beds; reptiles in the middle; mammals in the highest, with man the most recent. It is also asserted that no break has been discovered, as would be the case if after the beds had been formed destruction had come in, and an entirely new work of creation had begun again in what is recorded in Gen. 1. Many of the existing species are contemporaneous with those that we know have ceased to exist. It is maintained that the term 'day' is often used for indefinite periods of time in scripture, and therefore may be so in Gen. 1; that they refer to God's days, and not to natural days, seeing that 'the evening and the morning' are spoken of before the sun, which naturally causes the evening and morning. Also that it is not consistent to hold that God's rest on the seventh day only alluded to 24 hours.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The heavens and the earth and their immense arrangement were completed.
Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.
This is the written genealogy of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. When they were created, he called them Mankind.
Jehovah says: Who created the heavens? He who is God. He fashioned and made the earth. He founded it and he did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. He says: I am Jehovah, and there is no other.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.
Smith
Creation.
(The creation of all things is ascribed in the Bible to God, and is the only reasonable account of the origin of the world. The method of creation is not stated in Genesis, and as far as the account there is concerned, each part of it may be, after the first acts of creation, by evolution, or by direct act of God's will. The word create (bara) is used but three times in the first chapter of Genesis-- (1) as to the origin of matter; (2) as to the origin of life; (3) as to the origin of man's soul; and science has always failed to do any of these acts thus ascribed to God. All other things are said to be made. The order of creation as given in Genesis is in close harmony with the order as revealed by geology, and the account there given, so long before the records of the rocks were read or the truth discoverable by man, is one of the strongest proofs that the Bible was inspired by God. --Ed.)
Watsons
CREATION, in its primary import, signifies the bringing into being something which did not exist before. The term is therefore most generally applied to the original production of the materials whereof the visible world is composed. It is also used in a secondary or subordinate sense, to denote those subsequent operations of the Deity upon the matter so produced, by which the whole system of nature, and all the primitive genera of things, received their forms, qualities, and laws. The accounts of the creation of the world which have existed among different nations, are called Cosmogonies. Moses's is unquestionably the most ancient; and had it no other circumstance to recommend it, its superior antiquity alone would give it a just claim to our attention. It is evidently Moses's intention to give a history of man, and of religion, and an account of creation. In the way in which he has detailed it, it would have been foreign to his plan, had it not been necessary to obviate that most ancient and most natural species of idolatry, the worship of the heavenly bodies. His first care, therefore, is to affirm decidedly, that God created the heavens and the earth; and then he proceeds to mention the order in which the various objects of creation were called into existence. First of all, the materials, of which the future universe was to be composed, were created. These were jumbled together in one indigested mass, which the ancients called chaos, and which they conceived to be eternal; but which Moses affirms to have been created by the power of God. The materials of the chaos were either held in solution by the waters, or floated in them, or were sunk under them; and they were reduced into form by the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. Light was the first distinct object of creation; fishes were the first living things; man was last in the order of creation.
2. The account given by Moses is distinguished by its simplicity. That it involves difficulties which our faculties cannot comprehend, is only what might be expected from a detail of the operations of the omnipotent mind, which can never be fully understood but by the Being who planned them. Most of the writers who come nearest to Moses in point of antiquity have favoured the world with cosmogonies; and there is a wonderful coincidence in some leading particulars between their accounts and his. They all have his chaos; and they all state water to have been the prevailing principle before the arrangement of the universe began. The systems became gradually more complicated, as the writers receded farther from the age of primitive tradition; and they increased in absurdity in proportion to the degree of philosophy which was applied to the subject. The problem of creation has been said to be, "Matter and motion being given, to form a world;" and the presumption of man has often led him to attempt the solution of this intricate question. But the true problem was, "Neither matter nor motion being given, to form a world." At first, the cosmogonists contented themselves with reasoning on the traditional or historical accounts they had received; but it is irksome to be shackled by authority; and after they had acquired a smattering of knowledge, they began to think that they could point out a much better way of forming the world than that which had been transmitted to them by the consenting voice of antiquity. Epicurus was most distinguished in this hopeful work of invention; and produced a cosmogony on the principle of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, whose extravagant absurdity has hitherto preserved it from oblivion. From his day to ours, the world has been annoyed with systems; but these are now modified by the theories of chemists and geologists, whose speculations, in so far as they proceed on the principle of induction, have sometimes been attended with useful results; but, when applied to solve the problem of creation, will serve, like the systems of their forerunners, to demonstrate the ignorance and the presumption of man.
3. The early cosmogonies are chiefly interesting from their resemblance to that of Moses; which proves that they have either been derived from him, or from some ancient prevailing tradition respecting the true history of creation. The most ancient author next to Moses, of whose writings any fragments remain, is Sanchoniatho, the Phenician. His writings were translated by Philo Byblius; and portions of this version are preserved by Eusebius. These writings come to us rather in an apocryphal form; they contain, however, no internal evidence which can affect their authenticity; they pretty nearly resemble the traditions of the Greeks, and are, perhaps, the parent stock from which these traditions are derived. The notions detailed by Sanchoniatho are almost translated by Hesiod, who mentions the primeval chaos, and states ????, or love, to be its first offspring. Anaxagoras was the first among the Greeks who entertained tolerably accurate notions on the subject of creation: he assumed the agency of an intelligent mind in the arrangement of the chaotic materials. These sentiments gradually prevailed among the Greeks; from whom they passed to the Romans, and were generally adopted, notwithstanding the efforts which were made to establish the doctrines of Epicurus by the nervous poetry of Lucretius. Ovid has collected the orthodox doctrines which prevailed on the subject, both among Greeks and Romans; and has expressed them with uncommon elegance and perspicuity in the first chapter of his "Metamorphoses." There is so striking a coincidence between his account and that of Moses that one would almost think that he was translating from the first chapter of Genesis; and there can be no doubt that the Mosaic writings were well known at that time, both among the Greeks and Romans. Megasthenes, who lived in the time of Seleucus Nicanor, affirms, that all the doctrines of the Greeks respecting the creation, and the constitution of nature, were current among the Bramins in India, and the Jews in Syria. He must, of course, have been acquainted with the writings of the latter, before he could make the comparison. Juvenal talks of the writings of Moses as well known: