What did God create everything out of?

[The_Patriot21]

out of anything He wanted to, including nothing. Thats why we call Him "God"

[Mateo]

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 

[RustyAngeL]

That is just what He did, He created everything out of absolutely nothing.  Just speaking it into existence.

[Kan]

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.

[other one]

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.

[SIC]

Nothing

[FresnoJoe]

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 

[Serving]

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.

[Marilyn C]

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

[Running Gator]

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