Did God or nature create earth?

Answer 1

The very opening verse in the first book of The Bible says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..."

More and more scientists are coming to believe the fact that time had a beginning - the universe began to exist a finite ~13.8 billion years ago. Therefore, someone had to create it as Titus 1:2 indicates, "2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,..."


Jude 1:25Amplified Bible (AMP)25 To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it).


Justin Martyr, a second century Christian apologist, in his Hortatory Address to the Greeks, said that Plato got the idea that time was created along with the universe from Moses:

"And from what source did Plato draw the information that time was created along with the heavens? For he wrote thus: 'Time, accordingly, was created along with the heavens; in order that, coming into being together, they might also be together dissolved, if ever their dissolution should take place.' Had he not learned this from the divine history of Moses?" (Quoted from Plato's 'Timaeus Part 1).

So, the Bible states that all things were created by God - even time itself with its cause and effect and probabilities.

Answer 2

The Abrahamic religions teaches that God made earth, while other religions say that their gods made the earth. If we believe that the world was divinely created, our first decision must be which god created the earth.

Scientists say that the earth actually formed from an accretion disc circling around the sun, some 4.54 billion years ago. It was, in effect, nature that created the earth.
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