How did God make the World?

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There are two creation accounts in Genesis, but neither really says that God created the world ex nihilo, out of nothing. In the first account, attributed to the Priestly source, there was already a watery deep and the wind blew across its surface; the dry land appeared on day three, when he gathered the waters together. This story does not really tell us how God made the world, because it talks of making daylight before there was a sun; a firmament, the imaginary dome that separated the waters above from the waters below, and into which he placed the lights (sun, moon and stars); and grass and trees before there was a sun to warm them.

In the second Genesis account, the dry land was already there, but God had yet to make it rain for plants to grow. He created Adam and then various animals hoping for one that would keep Adam company, without ever realising that Adam needed a woman of his own kind. The fact that God could not make Adam out of nothing, instead making him out of clay, and then made Eve out of one of Adam's ribs, shows that this is also not how God made the world.

We have to fall back on science. Science tells us how the world came to be, some four and a half billion years ago, but can not tell us what role, if any, that God had. Scientists say that the creation of the world did not need God, but they do not necessarily say that he was not involved in some way.

AnswerJohn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalms 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Hebrews 11:3 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.

AnswerGod made the world by his command.

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If you believe The Bible , or some other religions, then God did make the world.  If you believe otherwise, then God did not make the world.  We do not have proof one way or another, at present.

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yes __________________ Sometimes the questions we want most to be answered are the ones that can't possibly have a clear, obvious and solidly supportable answer. This is one of them. I said that the answer (either way) is not solidly supportable, but this is not the whole story. The most profound support in favor of a creation has to be the faith   of those who believe it to be true. For believers there can be no more convincing or supportable truth than that which comes through faith. For non-believers, no amount of explaining or 'biblical' proof can ever come close to being solidly supportable. This should be a source of comfort to believers; it is faith and not 'proof' that guides their path.

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No, God did not. There is a thing called a Cosmic Calendar. Our world has been created in 13.8 billion years. In Sunday's premiere of Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson spent a good third of the show describing the sheer immensity of time on the cosmic scale. Our universe was born 13.8 billion years ago. If we condense that time down to one calendar year, we create what is called the "cosmic calendar."

In this cosmic calendar 1 day = 40 million years and 1 month = more than 1 billion years.

Fox/Cosmos

If the big bang happened at the beginning of the year, the first second of January 1, then:

As it expanded, the universe cooled, and it was darkness for about 200 million years. Gravity was pulling together clumps of gas and heating them until the first stars burst into light on January 10. On January 13th, these stars coalesced to form the first small galaxies. These galaxies merged to form still larger ones, including our own Milky Way. We formed about 11 billion years ago, on March 15 of the cosmic year.

It took until September for the solar system to develop, and early earth to be created. Life starts about that time too.

In this scale, humans didn't arise until the last day of the year, and modern civilization makes up about the last 14 seconds of the year. Everyone we have ever heard of lived in those 14 seconds, deGrasse Tyson says:

Every person you've ever heard of lies right in there. All those kings and battles, migrations and inventions, wars and loves, every thing in the history books happened here in the last seconds of the cosmic calendar.

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Yes, God created the world. The above answer conflates the belief in a Big Bang with belief in the existence of God. These are two different topics; and God could create the universe exactly as ddescribed above, or by other steps.

There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject is ultimately one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.

Here are a few:

1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.

2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.

3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by nature, sensed a need to worship something greater than themselves. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.

4) Tradition: There are events in human history which cannot be explained without God. Many people have their subjective stories that bend them in the direction of theism, but there are also historical events such as the Giving of the Torah, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.

5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or Atheism, but belief in God.

6) Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:

a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.

- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality. There is only nothing.

- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.

c). The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.

- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself to create. The pre-dated form would then need a sufficient explanatory cause, ad infinitum.

d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given enough time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe coming into existence are not very good, given enough time, it could happen.

- This option is a sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.

The word "chance" is used to describe possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being the agent of creation of anything, since chance is not an agent. "What are the real chances of the universe created by chance? Not a chance. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)

e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.

- The problem here is that it is either a restating of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d". In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."

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yes, we do. Th big bang theory is simply a little fairy tale that has blinded the world form the truth. God has always been, is, and always will be. I think it so amazing that He actually breathed the stars and planets from his mouth. This makes it that much easier to understand how big God really is.