Question 25: Why did you add that God is the Lord who created heaven and earth?

Question 25: Why did you add that God is the Lord who created heaven and earth?

Answer: Since God has revealed Himself to us through His works, we must seek and find Him in them. For our intellect is incapable of understanding God's essence. However, the world is like a mirror to us, through which we can see God to the extent that we are able to know Him.

In Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," "beginning" means "first," or "head." "Heaven and earth" refer to heaven and earth. "Heaven" does not refer to the ethereal sky, but rather to the kingdom of God, and "earth" refers to the material world.

God is in His kingdom, so why did He create the earth out of dust? The earth is like a prison, created to confine the spirits of angels who sinned in God's kingdom. That's why Genesis 1:2 says, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

And God created man. Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." He confined the spirit of an angel within a body and made him human. However, when the body dies, the spirit returns to God. Ecclesiastes 12:7 states, "Remember, the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."



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