God and Creation

These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.

Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.

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Cross-references Parent Topic a Related Topics b Links to Additional Materials c

General statements about God's interaction and relationship to creation.

• See also: Heaven.

• See also: Creation - Revelatory of God.

Scripture Pages that Link to Here

Exodus 19:3-25

All the earth belongs to God. (And he was offering to make Israel his special possession.)

Job 34:10-30

God's in charge, not because someone put him in charge, but because creation's very existence depends on him! If he withdrew from creation, it would all perish.

Job 38:1-38

Creating the earth - poetically described with terminology used in building a house.

Psalm 8:1-9

Psa 8:5 For you have made him a little lower than God [OR: heavenly beings], and crowned him with glory and honor.

We are on earth, made from the dust. Unlike the angels, we do not stand in the very presence of God. Yet God has focused his attention on us and given us a glory and honor that exceeds all else in creation. (All creation is "lower" than God, in the sense that God is uncreated. This isn't the focus here. See also: Heavenly Beings.)

Psalm 24:1-10

The earth and everything in it belongs to God. He the maker of it all. (In this passage, the focus is on the formation of the dry land and all things that live on it.)

At the same time, he has designated a special place as his "holy place" - v. 3.

Psalm 89:11-12

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them. The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

Psalm 95:1-11

Yahweh is the great God who made all things; all things belong to him.

Psalm 102:25-28

Psa 102:25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

Psalm 146:1-10

Psa 146:5-6 ... the God of Jacob ... Yahweh, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; ...

Psalm 148:1-14

Psa 148:13 let them (= all creation) praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Psalm 90:2 and Psalm 90:10

A contrast between God's eternal existence (i.e., from before creation came into existence, and "from everlasting to everlasting") and the shortness of the human lifespan (i.e., 70 or 80 years).

Isaiah 45:18

Yahweh who created the heavens, ... who formed the earth...

Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.