Questions tagged [creation]
The creation of the world, described most prominently in Genesis 1-2; other creation traditions are scattered throughout the Hebrew Bible.
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Does Colossians 1:16 say that Jesus created the heaven and the earth?
Colossians 1:16 ASV
for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things ...
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Colossians 1:16 New World Translation renders τα πάντα as “all other things” but why is this is not shown in their Kingdom Interlinear?
In Colossians 1:16, the NWT renders τα πάντα as “all other.”
According to Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus is part of the things created. Is this a correct usage of τα πάντα?
Inconsistently, the same NWT ...
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"The earth was formless and void" Did the earth exist before God created the world?
Gen 1:2 reads:
"The earth WAS without form and void"; Form-structure void-nothing occupied the earth.
"Darkness WAS upon the deep"; Total darkness upon the waters.
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John 1:1, "the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Vs2, He was in the beginning with God. Does this not prove Jesus existed before Genesis 1:1?
Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The "beginning" here is referring to when time began "God created the heavens and the earth."
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Does the Old Testament contain verses that interpret Jesus as the first-born of all creation in the sense of actually being created by God the Father?
Colossians 1:15 (NASB)
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
What support is there from the Old Testament to interpret this statement in the New Testament?
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According to Colossians 1:15 Jesus is the firstborn of all creation, how do you reconcile this with Colossians 1:16 and John 1:3? [duplicate]
John 1:3, "All things came into being by/through Him, and apart, (or without) Him nothing came into being that has come into being."
Colossians 1:16, "For (or because) by Him all things ...
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Phonetically, does Ἐλωῒ Ἐλωῒ in Mark 15:34 resemble יְהִ֣י אֹ֑ור in Genesis 1:3?
My spoken dialect is swiftly moving toward having only one vowel (which I'll have you know isn't "woof!" [smile])
So I may be at some disadvantage with Ancient Hebrew. Certainly, once the ...
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The language of creation in Genesis and Job [closed]
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Do those who understand Genesis 1 as describing a literal six-day creation read Job 38 in the same sort of way? And if not, why not? Nobody that I am aware of reads Job 38 literally, for the ...
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What is the light mentioned in the beginning of the book of Genesis [duplicate]
I know for sure that the light created after heaven and earth was created is not the sun. Why is this? Because the sun was created on the fourth day. The greater light according to the understanding ...
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Genesis | Why weren't other land creatures blessed on the 6th day?
I've been looking over the creation with an eye towards the 10 utterances of creation ("Then God said...") and other instances where God spoke or blessed something.
In Genesis 1:22, God ...
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Why did Paul call Jesus the firstborn from among the dead in Colossians 1:18, when there was no death yet when God began creating?
Colossians 1:15-16, 18 YLT
who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and
those upon the earth, those visible,...
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John 1:3 says that all things "were made" through Jesus and not "are made". Does this mean that Jesus is not creating any new physical things?
John 1:3 ESV
All things WERE made through him, and without him WAS not any thing made that WAS made.
Notice that all translations render this in the past tense, not in a tense of continuation ...
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Psalm 139:13 says that God knits us in our mother's womb. If Jesus creates all things, and not God, then who knitted Jesus in his mother's womb?
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my
mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very ...
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In Revelation 4:11, should "ho kyrios kai ho theos" be translated, "the LORD our God", or, "our Lord and God"?
Three major translations already render "ho kyrios kai ho theos" as "YHWH our God".
Revelation 4:11 NLT
“You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power.
For ...
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In Hebrews 2:7, why is "And set him over the works of your hands" put in brackets or even completely removed from all current translations?
(Hebrews 2:5-9 ESV translation)
For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of
which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere,
“What is man, that you are mindful of him, or ...
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Is Genesis 2:7 sufficiently ambiguous to support an interpretation that God spent millions of years to form Adam from dust?
Genesis 2:1-7 NKJV
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all ...
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Should "διά" (dia) be translated as "through" or "because of" in the five NT verses pertaining to God creating the world for Jesus?
John 1:3 ESV
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing
made that was made.
Or
All things were made because of him, and without him was not any thing
made that was made.
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Why do some translations render Genesis 2:5-7 as a chronology?
Skeptics often accuse Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 of contradicting (note also How does Genesis 2:6 reconcile with Genesis 1:11-13 AND to Genesis 2:5?).
This is based on Genesis 2 translations such as the ...
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Translation of "wayhî" (וַֽיְהִי־) in Genesis 1
Most of us are probably familiar with the formulaic "and there was evening and there was morning, the Nth day" in Genesis 1. Recently, however, I came across a source quoting the KJV, which ...
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Is there a specific meaning in KJV Genesis 1:1-5 on how it is presented in the Biblehub?
From this link
When I read the quote presented like above, my own conclusion :
Verse 1 and 2, The Beginning ---> is not the first day yet.
Once after the Light created The First Day: Light, then ...
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What is the connection between Y-H-V-H's battle with the dragon and creation in Psalms 74?
Psalms 74:13-17 recounts a series of victories of Y-H-V-H. The first couplet documents victories in battle against both the Canaanite chaos sea snake [1] and the sea monster Leviathan [2]:
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Why do Genesis 1 and 2 sequences of events and other details differ so widely?
In Genesis 1 the seed-plants are made first. Then birds, aquatic and marine creatures are summoned from the water. Beasts of the earth are called forth from the earth. Man is shaped (SHAPE(V): (ברא / ...
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In 1 Corinthians 8:6, should δι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς be translated "because of whom we exist" or "through whom we exist"?
1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV translation:
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and
for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all
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What are the waters waiting for?
Genesis 1:9 And God said:
let the waters be gathered together under the heavens in one place and
let dry land be seen.
The Hebrew word for 'gathered together' is qavah which means to wait, its ...
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Is God the speaker of Psalm 102:25-27 or is it the psalmist David? Does the truth about this verse change if it's quoted in the New Testament?
25 Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands [are] the heavens.
26 They -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest ...
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Heaven and Earth are the work of whose hands according to Psalm 8:6 Hebrews 1:10-13; 2:5-8?
Hebrews 1:10-13; 2:5-8 YLT
and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens; these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall ...
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Was mankind (adam) created in the image and likeness of God's heavenly assembly; where the Adam was made head over the rest of mankind as God's image?
Does scripture teach in Gen. 1:26-28; that (a collective) man (H120, adam, i.e. mankind, the general word used for man, cp. Ex 4:11); was made after the image and likeness of God's heavenly ...
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Did God create out of nothing or just what is not seen?
Hebrews 11:1, 3
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not ...
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What is meant by saying that the earth was formless?
We read in Gen 1:1-2:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over ...
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What did God Create Genesis 1:1 - Heavens or Heaven?
In Gen 1:1, some translation say 'heavens' and others say 'heaven.' Which one is correct?
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why does genesis 1:27 says man was created in God's image and then in Genesis 2:7 is when God actually creates man
I know God Created man on the 6th day (Genesis 1:27) so I was questioning why it talks about God forming man again in (Genesis 2:7).
I do get it but I need a full clarification.
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In 1992 I found an ANE literary type called "royal chronicle" fit the first Genesis Creation account. What ancient genre is it considered now?
During my university student days, about 1992, I once attended a seminar about ancient near eastern literature concerning kings. Somewhere in the middle of it, one speaker was describing a literary ...
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How can Jesus NOT be a created being, but the Creator himself? [duplicate]
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. (Rev 3:14)
How can Jesus NOT be a created being, but the Creator himself?
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What fruit was God referring to?
In Genesis 2:16, 17 when God commanded Adam not to eat the fruits from the tree of knowledge. what fruit was he referring to an apple or sexual sins
Gen 2:16, 17 - And the LORD God commanded him, “...
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Do the Stars in Genesis 1 support an allegorical view on the Creation account
Stars are commonly used in biblical views as an allegory to angels. The most common of these is in Revelation when it states a third of the stars will "fall down from heaven". We can also ...
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God did not intend ALL animals to be fruitful and multiply according to this passage ....or am I misreading?
Genesis 8:17 ESV
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be ...
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What does John 1:4 mean?
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
(NIV)
In context, the verse appears to be talking about the pre-incarnate Christ (this is in the section that begins "in the ...
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Tanninim (Great Sea Creatures) not good in Genesis 1?
In John Walton's book The Lost World of Adam and Eve, Walton makes this statement:
Many have noticed that in Genesis 1, day 2 is not labeled as good. Fewer have noticed that the technicalities of the ...
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Let Us make man in Our Image [duplicate]
How is the creation of the physical first man an image of the spiritual God?
What is the “design” of the first man that represents “Our image?”
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Does the Hebrew verb in Genesis 1:1-3 for "God said" imply an instant act of creation (perhaps like the Greek aorist tense)?
So what can be deduced from the Hebrew verb as to the creation process? Instantaneous fiat event, or long drawn out process? Or an obscure meaning, indefinite as to time?
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Why didn't God speak to the waters to subside in Genesis 8:1?
After the flood when God wanted the waters to subside he sent the wind to that
KJV Genesis 8 : 1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and ...
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Who did Jehovah command in Psalm 148:5?
Psalm 148:5 YLT
They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.
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1 Peter 3:7 - So what exactly are husbands and wives understood to be vessels for to varying degrees?
In 1st Peter 3:7, Peter instructs husbands to be cognizant that their wives lack the strength that men do as vessels.
1 Peter 3:7
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Does "God said" (Gen. 1:1-3) imply a Fiat Creation since Jesus did miracles instantaneously by speaking too (Mtt 8:3)? [closed]
It seems at a cursory reading that God spoke things into existence immediately by simply expressing an imperative sentence, with immediate results.
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Were the first three days equal in length to the fourth in Genesis 1?
The first three days were marked by the separation of light from darkness
Genesis 1:3 NLT
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.:4 And God saw that it was good. Then he ...
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Does the structure of Gen 1:27 tell us something about the order of mankind’s creation?
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27 ESV
Is this set of 3 lines meant to imply the order in which he made ...
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Is "God is light" more than metaphor in 1 John 1:5?
1 John 1:5 states that God is light - but Genesis 1:3 describes God creating light. Obviously God cannot create himself; nor does his nature change.
I see a few options here, and I'm wondering which, ...
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Does the creation account describing the position of the sun, moon, and stars contradict modern science? [closed]
Then God said: "Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters." Then God went on to make the expanse and divided the waters ...
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Is Psalm 74:13 prophetic of the future or a reference to the past? Was that part of the process of taming the chaotic abyss?
Psalm 74:13You crumbled the sea with Your might; You shattered the heads of the sea monsters on the water. https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16295/jewish/Cha
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Could there be some deeper/Spiritual meaning why darkness was created ahead of light in Genesis 1:2?
KJV Genesis 1 : 2
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.
Throughout the Bible darkness is ...
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