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Topic:
Creation
From Easton's Bible Dictionary...
In the beginning God created, i.e., called into being, all things out
of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free,
and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things exists only in
the will of God. The work of creation is attributed (1) to the Godhead
(Gen. 1:1, 26); (2) to the Father (1 Cor. 8:6); (3) to the Son (John
1:3; Col. 1:16, 17); (4) to the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:2; Job 26:13; Ps.
104:30). The fact that he is the Creator distinguishes Jehovah as the
true God (Isa. 37:16; 40:12, 13; 54:5; Ps. 96:5; Jer. 10:11, 12). The
one great end in the work of creation is the manifestation of the glory
of the Creator (Col. 1:16; Rev. 4:11; Rom. 11:36). God's works, equally
with God's word, are a revelation from him; and between the teachings of
the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no
contradiction. Traditions of the creation, disfigured by corruptions,
are found among the records of ancient Eastern nations. A peculiar
interest belongs to the traditions of the Accadians, the primitive
inhabitants of the plains of Lower Mesopotamia. These within the last
few years have been brought to light in the tablets and cylinders which
have been rescued from the long-buried palaces and temples of Assyria.
They bear a remarkable resemblance to the record of Genesis.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary...
(The creation of all things is ascribed in the Bible to God, and is
the only reasonable account of the origin of the world. The method of
creation is not stated in Genesis, and as far as the account there is
concerned, each part of it may be, after the first acts of creation, by
evolution, or by direct act of God's will. The word create (bara) is
used but three times in the first chapter of Genesis-- (1) as to the
origin of matter; (2) as to the origin of life; (3) as to the origin of
man's soul; and science has always failed to do any of these acts thus
ascribed to God. All other things are said to be made. The order of
creation as given in Genesis is in close harmony with the order as
revealed by geology, and the account there given, so long before the
records of the rocks were read or the truth discoverable by man, is one
of the strongest proofs that the Bible was inspired by God.--Ed.)
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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