God the Creator

God is the Creator

Nehemiah 9:6 ESV

“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

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God’s creative activity demonstrates his uniqueness

Psalm 96:5 ESV

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

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God’s creative activity implies that he is good

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

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God creates all things

He creates the physical world

Isaiah 45:18 ESV

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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He creates the spiritual world

Psalm 148:2–5 ESV

Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.

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The human race is the apex of God’s creation

Psalm 8:3–8 ESV

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

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The Creator’s agents

He creates through Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

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He creates by the Spirit

Job 33:4 ESV

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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He creates by his word

Psalm 33:6 ESV

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

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He creates by wisdom

Wisdom is personified and is active with the Creator.

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He creates from nothing

God creates out of non-existent material, which emphasises the absolute dependence of all creation upon him.

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The Creator sustains the created order

The Hebrew indicates continuous activity.

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Examples of God sustaining creation

Matthew 5:45 ESV

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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The Creator watches over his creation

Psalm 33:14 ESV

from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

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The creation is a vehicle for God’s self-revelation

Romans 1:20 ESV

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

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God renews his creation through redemption

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God renews his new creation of believing people

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

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God will reveal a new universe

Revelation 21:1 ESV

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

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