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Creation
Bible Verses discussing our beautifully created realm.
Is the earth, plants, lakes, oceans, bugs, animals, and people a massive accident? Did we come from a big boom? dust and goo? a gecko getting lucky with a monkey?
According to the scriptures and many other historical accounts, everything was created - created with a purpose. If the earth is in the center of creation and we live here, maybe somebody "upstairs" loves us?
Following the science will tell us that we're not special. To consider we are in the center of creation is a "horror" and although the hypothesis can't be disproved, it is "unwelcome".
| Verse | Text |
|---|---|
| Genesis 1:1 | In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. |
| Genesis 1:3 | Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light |
| Genesis 1:6-8 | And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. |
| Genesis 1:16 | And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. |
| Genesis 1:21 | God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. |
| Genesis 1:25 | God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. |
| Genesis 1:26 | Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” |
| Genesis 1:27 | God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. |
| Exodus 20:11 | For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. |
| 2 Peter 3:5 | For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God |
| John 1:3 | All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. |
| Colossians 1:16 | For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. |
| Romans 1:20 | For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. |
| Hebrews 11:3 | By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. |
| Colossians 1:17 | He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. |
| Psalm 33:6 | By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. |
| 1 Timothy 4:4 | For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; |
| Revelation 4:11 | “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” |
| Isaiah 40:26 | Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing. |
| Isaiah 45:8 | “Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it. |
| Isaiah 45:12 | “It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands And I ordained all their host. |
| Isaiah 45:18 | For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other. |
| Mark 10:6 | But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. |
| Verse | Text |
|---|---|
| The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ 4:21 | At this the father exceedingly rejoiced, and said, My son, perhaps this boy is the son of the living God, who made the heavens and the earth. |
| The Apostles' Creed | 1. I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth |
| The Gospel of Nicodemus (Acts of Pilate) 22:16 | And we found the account of the creation, and at what time he made the heaven and the earth, and the first man Adam, and that from thence to the flood, were two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight years. |
| Shepherd of Hermas 3 | ..."Lo, the God of powers, who by His invisible strong power and great wisdom has created the world, and by His glorious counsel has surrounded His creation with beauty, and by His strong word has fixed the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth upon the waters, and by His own wisdom and providence has created His holy Church, which He has blessed, lo! |
| Shepherd of Hermas 4 | ...do you not perceive how great is the glory of God, and how strong and marvellous, in that He created the world for the sake of man, and subjected all creation to him, and gave him power to rule over everything under heaven? |
| Jubilees 2:2-14 | 2) For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters... 4) And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day -half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament (that was) in the midst over the face of the whole earth. 5) And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear. 7) And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things, and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden and all. 8) And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness. 11) And on the fifth day He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by his hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind. 13) And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth. 14) And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created He them, and gave him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion. |
| Jasher 1:1-2 | 1) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God created man in his own image. 2) For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him... |
| 1 Maccabees 11:2-4 | O Lord, Lord, king of heaven... For thou, who hast created all things, and rulest all things, thou art the righteous Governor, and judgest those who do any thing in insolence and pride. |
| 1 Maccabees 11:9 | Thou O King, when thou hadst created the boundless and immeasurable earth... |
| 5 Maccabees 5:40 | Look up now to the heaven, and the earth, and the water, and the fire; and understand that the one true God himself created these; and formed man of flesh and blood, who lives a short time, and then will die. |
| Book of Judith 13:18 | Then said Ozias unto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most high God above all the women upon the earth; and blessed be the Lord God, which hath created the heavens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies. |
| 2 Baruch 14:16-18 | 16) “But I shall continue to speak in your presence, O Lord, my Lord. 17) In the beginning, when the world along with its inhabitants did not yet exist, you devised and spoke with a word, and simultaneously the works of creation stood before you. 18) And you said, that you would make a man for this world as a guardian over your works, so that it might be known that he was not created for the world, but the world for him. |
| Book of Wisdom 1:13-15 | 13) For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. 14) For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth 15) For righteousness is immortal: |
| Book of Wisdom 2:23 | For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. |
| Psalms of Solomon 8:7 | I considered the judgments of God since the creation of heaven and earth |
| Assumption of Moses 12 | ...All the nations which are in the earth God has created and us, He has foreseen them and us from the beginning of the creation of the earth unto the end of the age... |
| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 2:3 | And the one doth not fall short of the other by a third part of a hair; for by weight, and measure, and rule was all the creation made. |
| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 2:5 | or there is no inclination or thought which the Lord knoweth not, for He created every man after His own image. |
| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 3:4 | But ye shall not be so, my children, recognizing in the firmament, in the earth, and in the sea, and in all created things, the Lord Who made all things, that ye become not as Sodom, which changed the order of nature. |
| Story of Bel and the Dragon 5 | ...Because I may not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh. |
| 2 Esdras 6:1-6 | 1) He said to me, “In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the portals of the world were fixed and before the gatherings of the winds blew, 2) before the voices of the thunder sounded and before the flashes of the lightning shone, before the foundations of paradise were laid, 3) before the fair flowers were seen, before the powers of the earthquake were established, before the innumerable army of angels were gathered together, 4) before the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, before the footstool of Zion was established, 5) before the present years were reckoned, before the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, and before they were sealed who have gathered faith for a treasure- 6) then I considered these things, and they all were made through me alone, and not through another; just as by me also they will be ended, and not by another. |
| The Acts of Paul and Thecla 6:8 | Thecla then standing behind him, cried out in the following words: O sovereign Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, the Father of thy beloved and holy Son, I praise thee that thou hast preserved me from the fire, to see Paul again |
| 1 The Epistle of Clement 33:3 | For by His exceeding great might He established the heavens, and in His incomprehensible wisdom He set them in order. And the earth He separated from the water that surroundeth it, and He set it firm on the sure foundation of His own will; and the living creatures which walk upon it He commanded to exist by His ordinance. Having before created the sea and the living creatures therein, He enclosed it by His own power |
| 1 The Epistle of Clement 33:4-5 | 4) Above all, as the most excellent and exceeding great work of His intelligence, with His sacred and faultless hands He formed man in the impress of His own image. 5) For thus saith God Let us make man after our image and after our likeness. And God made man; male and female made He them. |
| The Epistle of Barnabas | For the scripture says of us, as it says to the Son, " Let us make the man after our own image, after our own likeness : and let them rule over the beasts of the earth and the fowls of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea." |