Category:Creation

Cre*a"tion (kr-A"shn), n. Etym: [L. creatio: cf. F. cr. See Create.]

1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.

2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Romans 8:22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.

3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.

- ---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Creation - "In the beginning" God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things exists only in the will of God. The work of creation is attributed (1.) to the Godhead (Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:26); (2.) to the Father (1 Corinthians 8:6); (3.) to the Son (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:17); (4.) to the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; Psalms 104:30). The fact that He is the Creator distinguishes Jehovah as the true God (Isaiah 37:16; Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:13; Isaiah 54:5; Psalms 96:5; Jeremiah 10:11, Jeremiah 10:12). The one great end in the work of creation is the manifestation of the glory of the Creator (Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11; Romans 11:36). God's works, equally with God's word, are a revelation from Him; and between the teachings of the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no contradiction. Traditions of the creation, disfigured by corruptions, are found among the records of ancient Eastern nations. (See ACCAD.) A peculiar interest belongs to the traditions of the Accadians, the primitive inhabitants of the plains of Lower Mesopotamia. These within the last few years have been brought to light in the tablets and cylinders which have been rescued from the long-buried palaces and temples of Assyria. They bear a remarkable resemblance to the record of Genesis.