Day Three

And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.  And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:9-13 ESV

God created dry ground probably because not everything that He was going to create would be able to live in the water.  So now He made dry ground appear so that the earth wouldn’t just be covered with water.

Then God said, “Let the land produce plants. Let them bear their own seeds.

This is the first living thing on the earth that God has created.  Up until now He had been preparing the earth for living things.  He makes sure that the plants have their own seeds so they would to be able to make more plants, so He gave them seeds. Not only did God create plants with seeds, He also creates trees with fruit.  The fruit also needed to have seeds.

And God saw that it was good.

God is pleased with His work.  He sees that what He has done is good.  This shows that God has feelings and that He thinks about things. 

Day Two

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”  And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse.  And it was so.  And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:6-8  ESV

And God said...and it was so.

 This is showing us the power of God speaking.  He simply has to speak something into existence.   God spoke, the formless existence obeyed. 

God separated the waters so that there was water above and below the "expanse".  The water below is easy to understand: lakes, oceans, seas.   What is the water above?  The water in the clouds: snow and rain!

Another word for expanse could be "sky".

Day One

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 the face of the waters.  

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.  God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.   And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.  

Genesis 1:1-5 ESV

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Who is God?    God is the creator.  He has always been here, no one created Him.  It is not known where He came from and He cannot be seen, but we can look around this world and know that He is real.  Like the wind – we cannot see it but we know it is there.
In the dictionary, "create" means, “to bring somebody or something into existence”, and "make" means, “to assemble something from parts”.  Ex nihilo is a Latin  phrase meaning "out of nothing". It often appears in conjunction with the concept of creation, as in creatio ex nihilo, meaning "creation out of nothing". (Wikipedia)  Just think how awesome that really is!
Some people say the world was created by a big bang that happened somewhere out in space.  How can this be?  Explosions have to come from something.  If there was nothing here then there was nothing to explode.
And another thing, when something does explode the pieces are scattered randomly everywhere.  However,  the universe is a very organized place.  Stars are grouped into galaxies and galaxies are grouped into clusters.  The universe was organized by Someone who had a plan for it.
What was there before God created the heavens and the earth?    Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.   How did God create the heavens and the earth?   We really don’t have the answer, other than God is God and His power is more than we can understand.

         Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, 
                the conviction of things not seen.  

                                                     Hebrews 11:1 

 

Cross at the Core of Whirlpool Galaxy

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