The process whereby God brought the heavens and the earth, and all of their diverse contents, into existence
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Did God create darkness?
Without Light, there is darkness. Darkness is not made, it is just there. However, before the creation there was nothing. Does that mean that darkness was also not there?
Let us look at Genesis 1:5:
1 In the beginning God created the sky and the…
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Why did God create man?
Genesis 2:7 KJV reads,
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Why do this?
There must be a very good reason. I read the Bible but don't know it well…
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What was the purpose of creating the world?
Why did God create a world?
Was the act of creation for some profit, or did God in His grace create world only because it was good?
Genesis 1 (KJV)
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and…
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If the dinosaurs and man co existed, why did the dinosaurs perish?
According to the Young Earth Creationism viewpoint, the dinosaurs and man co existed. In this viewpoint, how did the dinosaurs perish? What caused them to be eliminated?
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What was God's goal in creating life?
I am agnostic and rationalist and I spend quite a lot of time reading the arguments of tenants of intelligent design (but rarely interacting with them). Regularly, one of these tenants claims something like "there should be a reason/cause for us to…
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What is the creationist view on animals equipped with lethal weapons?
If God created the world with the intention that his creatures should live in harmony (as pictured in Isaiah 11:6-9) why did he create some animals with lethal weapons?
Why do spiders make webs to trap insects? Why do scorpions have venomous stings?…
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Is man God's greatest creation?
I know there is a verse that states this I will edit it in after I will find it.
But also we have these verses:
Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
that thou visitest him? Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him a…
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How did God come to be?
I know this is an old question, but does anyone have any new ideas on it?
One argument is that God has always existed, but why should anything exist at all? How could this happen?
Another approach is that God (and possibly God's creator(s)) came…
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Can a supernova be reconciled as a creation event by. "Young Earth" religious groups and equally supported scientifically?
First of all, my question is not searching for a solution to the speed of light/time issue.
ie How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects?
That is a different question. I do…
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Do Biblical Unitarians believe in Creatio Ex-nihilo (creation out of nothing)?
Creatio ex-nihilo, for the purposes of this question, meaning that matter is not eternal and was therefore brought into existence by God at a specific moment (the beginning) and this creation is also inclusive of space, time, and any other dimension…
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Does Bible say that God created insects?
Does Bible say that God created insects? Does "creeping things" in Genesis imply insects, too?
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Is the light that is created on the first day the sun?
I am in the process of doing a thorough read and examination of the bible in chronological order for the new year and was pondering if the light God created in Gen. 1:3 was the same light given by the sun created in Gen. 1:16. Genesis 1:3 quotes…
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What came first, water or light?
Genesis 1
The Creation
(John 1:1–5; Hebrews 11:1–3)
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…
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Who Made the Serpent?
In my Bible it says,
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
So, if the serpent is more subtle (sic) than any beast the Lord God made, that implies that God did not make the serpent. So who…
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