The Creator of the World

"In these last days [God] has spoken to us in His Son . . . through whom also He made the world" (Heb. 1:2).

John 1:3 testifies, "All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." Jesus has the ability to create something out of nothing (cf. Rom. 4:17), and that sets Him apart from mere creatures. Only God can create like that; we can't. If you could create, you'd live in a different house, drive a different car, and probably have a different job—if you had any job at all. You could just sit in your backyard and make money. Fortunately, God didn't give depraved men and women the right to be creators.

The ability to create ex nihilo belongs to God alone and the fact that Jesus creates like that indicates He is God and establishes His absolute superiority over everything. He created everything material and spiritual. Though man has stained His work with sin, Christ originally made it good, and the very creation itself longs to be restored to what it was in the beginning (Rom. 8:22).

The common Greek word for "world" is kosmos, but that's not the one used in Hebrews 1:2. The word here is aionas, which does not refer to the material world but to "the ages," as it is often translated. Jesus Christ is responsible for creating not only the physical earth, but also time, space, energy, and matter. The writer of Hebrews does not restrict Christ's creation to this earth; he shows us that Christ is the Creator of the entire universe and of existence itself. And He made it all without effort.

What about you? If you don't recognize God as the Creator, you'll have difficulty explaining how this universe came into being. Where did it all come from? Who conceived it? Who made it? It cannot be an accident. Someone made it, and the Bible tells us who He is: Jesus Christ.

Praise God for the wonder of His creation, which we can so easily take for granted.

Read Colossians 1:16-23 to discover the relationship between the creation and your salvation.

John 1:3 testifies, ".....

New International Version
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

New Living Translation
God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.

English Standard Version
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Berean Study Bible
Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

Berean Literal Bible
All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.

New American Standard Bible
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

New King James Version
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

King James Bible
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Christian Standard Bible
All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

Contemporary English Version
And with this Word, God created all things. Nothing was made without the Word. Everything that was created

Good News Translation
Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created.

International Standard Version
Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

NET Bible
All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

New Heart English Bible
All things were made through him, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

A Faithful Version
All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Everything was in his hand, and without him not even one thing existed of the things that existed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Everything came into existence through him. Not one thing that exists was made without him.

New American Standard 1977
All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

King James 2000 Bible
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

American King James Version
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

American Standard Version
All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

Darby Bible Translation
All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

English Revised Version
All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

Webster's Bible Translation
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Weymouth New Testament
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.

World English Bible
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Young's Literal Translation
all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

In case anyone was wondering what translation that was quoted from.

On creation:

“The Mysteries of Pi and e
“Fundamental Constants?”

by Chuck Missler
https://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/482/

...

On Genesis 1:1:

“You get 3.1416 x 1017. The value of π to four decimal places! Hmm.”

On John 1:1:

“You now get 2.7183 x 1040, the value of e. Curious!”

And there is more to be found on the texts that others have discovered.

God is always amazing!

The recent discovery that the speed of light is not a constant has created quite a stir...

Oh?

I've known this ever since how Prisms & LENSES worked was explained in high school! (a LOOOOONG time ago!)

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

In Hebrew:

Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew

If you examine the numerical values of each of the Hebrew letters, and the numerical value of the words (see chart), and apply them to this formula:

The number of letters x the product of the letters
The number of words x the product of the words

You get 3.1416 x 10¹⁷. The value of π to four decimal places! Hmm.

https://sites.google.com/site/mathematicalmonotheism/the-proof-part-1

Why didn't my EVUL math teachers larn me this here stuff???

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