The Bible Says: Out of Nothing, God Created Everything! (in six days)

The Bible Says:

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Gen 1:1 (ESV)

Create (To) - "to create, make." This verb is of profound theological significance, since it has only God as its subject. Only God can "create" in the sense implied by bara'. The verb expresses creation out of nothing, an idea seen clearly in passages having to do with creation on a cosmic scale:—Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words

bārā’ - Hebrew word meaning "to create out of nothing"—Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

ex nihilo - Latin phrase for "out of nothing".

God in His wisdom, sovereignty, power and majesty created all things that exist out of nothing!   He created everything out of nothing!

In the New Testament the writer of Hebrews writes:

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 
Hebrews 11:3 (ESV)

and in the Revelation to John on the isle of Patmos we read:

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
Revelation 4:11 (ESV)

R. C. Sproul says “Some modern theorists believe that the world was created by nothing. Note the difference between saying that the world was created from nothing and saying that the universe was created by nothing. In this modern view the rabbit comes out of the hat without a rabbit, a hat, or even a magician. The modern view is far more miraculous than the biblical view. It suggests that nothing created something. More than that, it holds that nothing created everything—quite a feat indeed!”

Sproul continues, “The God we worship is the God who has always been. He alone can create beings, because He alone has the power of being. He is not nothing. He is not chance. He is pure Being, the One who has the power to be all by Himself. He alone is eternal. He alone has the power over death. He alone can call worlds into being by fiat, by the power of His command. Such power is staggering, awesome. It is deserving of respect, of humble adoration.”

God created everything is six 24 hour days and on day six He created Adam and Ever. He gives us the details in Genesis 1:2 - 2:3.  After six days of creation he rested on day seven:

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.  So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Gen 2:1-3 (ESV)

Alot of people want to say that Genesis 1 is describing long periods of time (i.e. evolution) and not 24 hour days.  If God was not talking about literal 24 hours days then why did He use the creation week as an example when he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses in Exodus 20?

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
Exodus 20:8-11 (ESV)

God's Word is true and it never changes. Scientists are constantly having to revise their theories based on new discoveries from God's awesome creation. Remember at one time scientists believed the world was flat, the Sun revolved around the Earth, etc.

So who are you going to believe, God who never changes or science that is constantly having to revise it theories?

You can find alot more information from men and women much smarter than me at Answers in Genesis and  The Institute for Creation Research.

Remember, you can trust God and the Bible.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8 (ESV)

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,  that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Tim 3:16-17 (ESV)

I believe in six days of creation because the Bible tells me so!  If God created everything out of nothing why is it so hard to believe that He chose to do it in six 24 hour days?

Soli Deo Gloria
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