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[size=x-large]Remember Your Creator[/size]
The Bible begins with the famous line, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The verb 'created', bara, is a verb that refers to actions of God only. Humans can build things, make things, create things, and form things, but God alone can bara. Only God can create space, time, matter, and energy - all part of the material world that we exist in. It is all here, only because God baraed it.
Of course, how He did it remains a mystery. Science barely understands what matter itself is, much less how it was created and why it exists in the form that it does. What is crucial, however, is that we never forget for a moment where it all came from. "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast" Ps. 33:6-9, NKJV.
Also, when an important project is finished, people like to celebrate. For example, when we build a church, we dedicate it to God. Similarly, when God finished with the earth, He commemorated the event by setting aside a special day, the Sabbath.
Compare Isaiah 40:25, 26; 45:12, 18; Colossians 1:16, 17; Hebrews 1:2 to Isaiah 44:15
The Bible begins with the famous line, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The verb 'created', bara, is a verb that refers to actions of God only. Humans can build things, make things, create things, and form things, but God alone can bara. Only God can create space, time, matter, and energy - all part of the material world that we exist in. It is all here, only because God baraed it.
Of course, how He did it remains a mystery. Science barely understands what matter itself is, much less how it was created and why it exists in the form that it does. What is crucial, however, is that we never forget for a moment where it all came from. "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast" Ps. 33:6-9, NKJV.
Also, when an important project is finished, people like to celebrate. For example, when we build a church, we dedicate it to God. Similarly, when God finished with the earth, He commemorated the event by setting aside a special day, the Sabbath.
Compare Isaiah 40:25, 26; 45:12, 18; Colossians 1:16, 17; Hebrews 1:2 to Isaiah 44:15
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