Genesis. The Almighty - to create the Earth, universe etc. Beginnings,
new beginning. Origin.
The birth of the world. Formed from nothing. To create into being.
God is the Creator. God brought this world and the universe into existence.
The Creation:
Creation of the World
Creation of Man
The Fall of Man
The book of Genesis covers creation in the Bible - beginnings.
Genesis chapter 1, verse 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called
the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
There has been debate over the time period of the 6 day creation. But
most (or many) believe that it is exact and that the Earth etc was created
in 6 days. I have heard and read many
theories about the 6 day creation time period. The main debate probably
comes from the feeling that we humans have of the little amount of work
that "we" could do in a day. which
would come no where near what God could do in a day. We find it hard
to fathom, or comprehend what God can do in this limited amount of time
compared with our efforts.
Of course with the New Testament we have with the teachings of Jesus
a creation of new things, a new beginning.
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