The Essential: Creation Simply stated, creation refers to
everything that exists that has not always existed. It refers to
all that God has brought into existence, which is everything
apart from God himself--including angels and, eventually, Satan
and his demons--since God is the one and only thing that has
never been created. There are a variety of ways to understand
how creation happened--or at least how it has come to look like
it does now. While these views can differ slightly or
substantially, all Bible-believing Christians will agree on the
following points: 1) God created it by, through, and for Christ.
- For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities--all things were created through him and for him.
(Colossians 1:16) 2) God created it by his word and out of
nothing. - By faith we understand that the universe was created
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of
things that are visible. (Hebrews