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Almighty God created the heavens and the universe. God created a finite world in which we find a vast series of beings have been called into existence living creatures, animals and plants that inhabit the world. (Greig). The history of the world is divinely created in that not only the beings came into existence, but also God created earth, the sun, the moon and all the planets. According to Greig he states, “There was a time in the history of the finite world when there was neither the sun or the moon, nor earth, when the matter of which all these bodies are composed was diffused in a previous state…Creation is that which is the work of an intelligent being…It is the giving of existence, by an intelligent being, to that which had previously …show more content…

In fact God has great intelligence and understanding in which he created and produce the conditions were prepared to bring these things into existence. Ellicott’s commentary suggest that Moses had declared three things relative to the beginning of creation. Moses first premise that the world and all things in it were created by God, and to praise his Name for the infinite graces, with which he had endued him, fell willingly from God through disobedience, who yet for his own mercies sake restored him to life, and confirmed him in the same by his promised of Christ to come, by whom he should overcome Satan, death and hell…Secondly, Moses asserts that the wicked, unmindful of God’s most excellent benefits, remained still in their wickedness, and so falling most horridbly from sin to sin, provoked God…Thirdly, he assures us by the examples of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the rest of the patriarch’s, that his mercies never fail those whom he chooses to be his Church, and to profess his Name in earth, but in all their afflictions and persecutions he assist them, sends comfort, and delivers them, so that the beginning, increase, preservation and success of it might be attributed to God only. (Ellicott). This provides mankind the understanding that God’s divine order serves as the …show more content…

(Ellicot’s commentary). According to Ellicott, God in Hebrew, is called Elohim a world plural in form, but joined with a verb singular…Its root meaning is strength, power; and the form Elohim is not to be regarded as pluralis majestatis, but as embodying the effort of early human thought in feeling after the deity, and in arriving at the conclusion that the deity was one…Thus, in the name it included one Person all the powers, mights, and influences by which the world was first created and is now governed and maintained…In the Bible alone Elohim is one…buts its primary lesson is that, however diverse may seem the working of the powers of nature, the Worker is one and his work one.

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