The Work Necessary to Create the Universe
The agency that created the universe had to be very powerful. God qualifies as such an agency, but since He is not a blind force we must call Him an Agent. Some of the energy He supplied materialized and the rest warms and lights the universe. Psalm 8:3 says it was the work of His fingers. God is the First Cause. He is both the Almighty Agent that provided the energy and the Artist Who formed the universe so we could have a home.
The writer of “Hebrews,” an anonymous letter directed to some people in Jerusalem, stopped short of saying that God created out of nothing. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:3). The contrast the writer makes is between the visible world and its invisible starting materials. God formed the universe from the materials. The writer does not here comment on the creation of the materials, but other Bible passages affirm that God created them.
The writer of “Hebrews,” an anonymous letter directed to some people in Jerusalem, stopped short of saying that God created out of nothing. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:3). The contrast the writer makes is between the visible world and its invisible starting materials. God formed the universe from the materials. The writer does not here comment on the creation of the materials, but other Bible passages affirm that God created them.