Quotes About Creation

In scripture, names work like mirrors that reflect back the essence of a thing. But more than that, they help CREATE a thing.

We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.

No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.

The seventh day is not over; the story is not over. We're still being made in the image of God. ... it appears that we are still living in the sixth day.

After day seven, the next verse in Genesis says, "When no plant of the field was yet in the earth...then the Lord God formed man of dust" (Gen. 2:5-7). That's a description of the sixth day, when God formed "man" ... Genesis 2 is not a description of something that happened after the seventh day, but before...

If the garden story comes after the seventh day when "everything is good," how does one account for an evil talking snake, the need for a wall around the garden, two ignorant naked people that don't know Good from evil, and this statement from God, "it's not good that the man [the adam] is alone"? How can "it" be "not good," if God has already declared everything good and finished?

The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.

The deepest story is not The Fall. The deepest story is not your sin. The deepest story is that God is making you in His image. Jesus is His image, and you are His Temple, Body, and Bride. The deepest story is that God is making you in His Image and will not fail.

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.

While God did rest from His creative work, since the Fall He has never rested from His redemptive work.

Whenever God gives a miracle child to an old couple, it is a sign that He is beginning something new. An old couple having their first child means a new life. But a virgin who conceives must mark the beginning of a new creation.

This is your Father's world. He has your back, He goes before you, He is the rock beneath you and your heavenly Father above. This is your Father's world, and He has created this wide world is as a playground for His children. So: Go pray; and go play.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good, and He 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.

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.