How did God make things?

Answer 1

Dear asker

May I submit my opinion only regarding your question. As space is not empty but consists of spirit matter and the force which governs it. The spirit matter is so fine that it is not visible. The force is the power of God. He has the power to organize that matter to any form he so desires. Now comes the tricky bit. If God is able to organise that spirit matter then it must have some degree of intelligence to be able to obey. A grain of sand is made up of atoms so that we can see it, but it's intelligence is still only that of a grain of sand as it is with all things. It is this writers opinion that all that we see around us, including man was made spiritually before being sent to earth. The scriptures tell us that God made man from the dust of the earth and placed in him his spirit (And intelligence) so that he became a living thing. This may also apply to the first animals and plant life.

The scriptures tell us that they were on earth before Adam because Adam had to name all of them. The way is now paved so that through the natural process of procreation these waiting spirits may come to earth in their own allotted time and place. Remember this is only the opinion of this writer.

Answer 2

With the exception of mankind, we are only told what God made, not how He made it. That fact is in order to stress mankind's importance.

To make man, God fashioned the appropriate shape from dirt and breathed a soul into it (Genesis ch.2). He then made the first woman by fashioning her from a piece of the man's flesh (ibid).

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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