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“the earth” vs. “ALL CREATION.”

Translations even in earthly communication is easily garbled. But speaking with angels or God Himself?

Imagine trying to comprehend explanations beyond your comprehension — such as outer space:

Job 26:7
“He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.”

And the word for “sphere” was misinterpreted as “circle of the earth”

ChristianAnswers.NetIsaiah 40:22 says God sits above “the circle of the earth” (the Hebrew word for “circle” can also mean a “sphere”). Also, Luke 17:34-36 depicts Christ’s ...
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Thank you so much for keeping me in the loop, dear brother in Christ!

I see Creation as both physical and spiritual, that God alone is uncreated, uncaused.

Creation was ex nihilo (out of nothing):

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. - Hebrews 11:3

And again:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.– Colossians 1:15-20

And again:

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: - Romans 1:20

It is revealed in His Name I AM, YHvH (He IS), Alpha and Omega.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Revelation 1:8

And again,

The Tetragrammaton (YHVH) is used as a proper name of God, denoting Him as the ultimate Source of all existence, high above the universe and its laws. The Tetragrammaton is therefore interpreted to mean that God "was, is and will be," indicating that He is outside the realm of space, time and all other attributes of nature. Therefore, when the Tetragrammaton is used in relation to man, it indicates that God is acting in mercy, transcending all the rules of providence.

AISH: Writing the Torah

In appearance, Yhwh () is the third person singular imperfect "ḳal" of the verb ("to be"), meaning, therefore, "He is," or "He will be," or, perhaps, "He lives," the root idea of the word being,probably, "to blow," "to breathe," and hence, "to live." With this explanation agrees the meaning of the name given in Ex. iii. 14, where God is represented as speaking, and hence as using the first person—"I am" (, from , the later equivalent of the archaic stem ). The meaning would, therefore, be "He who is self-existing, self-sufficient," or, more concretely, "He who lives," the abstract conception of pure existence being foreign to Hebrew thought. There is no doubt that the idea of life was intimately connected with the name Yhwh from early times. He is the living God, as contrasted with the lifeless gods of the heathen, and He is the source and author of life (comp. I Kings xviii.; Isa. xli. 26-29, xliv. 6-20; Jer. x. 10, 14; Gen. ii. 7; etc.). So familiar is this conception of God to the Hebrew mind that it appears in the common formula of an oath, "ḥai Yhwh" (= "as Yhwh lives"; Ruth iii. 13; I Sam. xiv. 45; etc.).

Jewish Encyclopedia

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

The 'creation' from God's perspective for humankind is an Earth thingy as explained in Genesis. Look carefully at the perspective when 'all things' were created here ... Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (That's creation of all, not specifically our solar system
. . . then we have a vast gap, followed with
Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

How many billion years went by while the atoms and molecules which became our solar system were being cooked in the first hydrogen stars? And at last there was a planet God refers to directly, and this planet must have been shrouded in miles-thick cloud cover since the surface was covered with water and darkness was upon the face of the deep, literally the surface of the waters!

During the time our solar system atoms were being cooked and distributed, who can say what other hallmarks of God's creative process were brought into existence? Could angels and the realm of angels have been created during the inflationary period, when time and space were stretched in ways we have yet to imagine since the universe expnaded at greater than the speed of light, from our perspective?