The_Patriot21 Posted May 31, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 28 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 15,710 Content Per Day: 2.46 Reputation: 8,526 Days Won: 39 Joined: 10/25/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/27/1985 Share Posted May 31, 2016 out of anything He wanted to, including nothing. Thats why we call Him "God" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mateo Posted June 1, 2016 Group: Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 331 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 117 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 On May 31, 2016 at 2:35 PM, WilliamL said: What did God create everything out of? Ultimately, God's own self. I agree God created everything out of Himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyAngeL Posted June 2, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 23 Topic Count: 155 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7,464 Content Per Day: 1.02 Reputation: 8,810 Days Won: 57 Joined: 03/30/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/12/1952 Share Posted June 2, 2016 That is just what He did, He created everything out of absolutely nothing. Just speaking it into existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan Posted June 5, 2016 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,661 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 1,292 Days Won: 2 Joined: 12/21/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted June 5, 2016 Many creation legends in different ancient cultures, provide the idea that God creates by "that which proceeds" from God. But specifically "that which proceeds from His mouth." The Bible gives the right answer to this concept, so we can forget the pagan ideas. The Lord creates by His breath, His Word. The Lord is life and so is His breath. The Word of God is also living, and it contains the thoughts of God, in a living sense and not just representationally. The Word produces what the Lord thinks and desires to exist. It is everlasting, life itself, wisdom, intelligence, guidance, protection, it is the cause of all realities in creation, and it has all the attributes of the Lord's great Character. It does not matter whether the Lord speaks a single word or a sentence, every breath of God produces eternal living results. The believer is required to trust and have faith in the spoken Word of God, because it cannot lie or fail. Even the written word of God, the Bible is as sacred and dangerous as the breath of God to the sinner. To tamper, change, misuse, mistranslate and disbelieve the Bible is a sin that God will not forget. The Word of God is as sacred as His name. While the Word is able to create and maintain creation forever, it is also able to reserve the unjust for destruction, and is able to destroy and recreate any creation, such as the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted June 5, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 598 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,129 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,858 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted June 5, 2016 Well, we don't have words to describe what God made all things out of...... so I'll just describe it as best can be said. He made it all out of three big old huge piles of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIC Posted June 5, 2016 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 13 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,436 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 2,625 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1989 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FresnoJoe Posted June 8, 2016 Group: Graduated to Heaven Followers: 207 Topic Count: 60 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 8,651 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 5,761 Days Won: 4 Joined: 01/31/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/04/1943 Share Posted June 8, 2016 On 5/29/2016 at 4:12 PM, shiloh357 said: The word breathed is simply an anthropomorphism. It is describing something God did using descriptive terms we can understand and have a point of reference for. God is a spirit. He does not have lungs or a cardiovascular system, so he doesn't "breathe" they way think of it. God imparted a spirit in Adam and that is all that is meant by it. The Wind And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Acts 2:2 And And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: John 20:22 Our LORD Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Ezekiel 37:9-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serving Posted June 21, 2016 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 934 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 905 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/05/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/14/1969 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Imagine the words God spoke were like letters coming out of His mouth, and those letters became whatsoever God willed them to become, water, trees, rocks, planets, angels etc etc .. and the Word is Spirit .. so everything created consists and comes from those "letters" which are Spirit materialized/expressed in the material and spiritual planes .. Like what William said, God created everything out of Himself, out of His inner Spirit. Psalms 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. The "breath" represents the Spirit coming forth from within Him, and IN His Spirit is LIFE .. and that which is within Him can come forth and obey Him in any "expression" God so desires it be .. be those "expressions" material or spiritual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn C Posted June 22, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 30 Topic Count: 267 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 13,205 Content Per Day: 3.49 Reputation: 8,497 Days Won: 12 Joined: 12/21/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/06/1947 Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) I believe God created everything from Himself - Spirit - life in varying degrees. He upholds everything & sustains it. Matter is made of building blocks, as it were, & the bottom line is what energises it - the Spirit - life of God. `For by Him all things were created that are in heaven & that are on the earth, visible & invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, (rulership). All things were created through Him & for Him. And He is before all things, & in Him all things consist.` (Col. 1: 16 & 17) Marilyn. PS. Just read your post (after I did mine) Serving & thought it was good. We are thinking similar. Edited June 22, 2016 by Marilyn C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 22, 2016 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.69 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) On 5/29/2016 at 4:46 PM, HAZARD said: Scripture clearly teaches that God has a heart (Gen. 6:6; 8:21); so we can assume His heart pumps blood!, He also has hands and fingers (Exod. 31:18; Psalms 8:3-6; Rev. 5:1, 6-7); Nostrils, (Ps. 18:8); mouth (Num. 12:8); lips and tongue (Isa. 30:27; feet (Ezek. 1:27; Exodus 24:10); eyes, eyelids, sight (Ps. 11:4; 18:24; 33:18); voice (Ps. 29; Rev. 10:3-4; Gen. 1); breath so He does breathe (Gen. 2:70); ears (Ps. 18:6); head, hair, face, arms (Dan. 7:9-14; 10:5-19; Rev. 5:1; loins (Ezek. 1:26:28; 8:1-4); bodily presence (Gen. 3:8; 18:1-22; Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7; Exodus 24:10-11); and many other bodily parts as required by Him to be a person with a body. Your denying all these Scriptures or twisting them to mean nothing. The only difference between a spirit and a mortal being is substance. As it has been mentioned, those are anthropomorphism, note meant to be taken literal. Not unlike Isa 66:1 where God calls earth His footstool. God does not really have feet and they are not really resting on the earth. Edited June 22, 2016 by Out of the Shadows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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