Psalm 33:6
6 By the word [dabar] of the LORD [Yahovah] were the heavens [shamayim]
made [`asah]; and all the host [tsaba'] of them by the breath [ruwach] of his mouth [peh]. KJV-Interlinear
6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth
all their host. ESV
In this single verse, all
of the philosophies or beliefs of randomness or accident, or evolutionary
changes and such, are labeled a lie. And
God uses only two words to accomplish this.
The first is ‘dabar,’ and the second is ‘asah.’
The first word, ‘dabar,’
refers to the spoken word, an utterance, a statement, a verbal sound. In other words, God spoke. This is not a speech of lengthy sentences or
paragraphs, but a single word or command.
We are not told what that specific word is, but merely that God spoke.
It is not important what
the word was, because probably all of the nonsense out there would try to use
it and become fools speaking Gods word, as though they somehow possessed His
ability.
Anyway, the second word
is ‘asah,’ which means to create in accordance with a pattern.
But before we get to the
pattern, we need to review the other words for creation, so that we can understand
this one.
They are ‘bara,’ ‘asah,’ ‘yatsar,’
‘banah,’ and finally ‘atsab.’
The first word, ‘bara,’
means to create something out of nothing.
It does not mean to form out of tiny little things, making them into
bigger things. It means simply that when there is nothing, and then something comes
into existence, then it came into existence, where nothing existed prior. So, nothing and then something. This is used in Genesis when God created, ‘bara,’
the heavens and the earth. So out of
nothing, the entire universe came into existence. The current universe is the one and only
universe that has ever existed. This
universe did not come out of the residue of a former universe. It did not come out of an explosion, for an
explosion indicates some existence prior to, or the ingredients of, the
explosion. And it is impossible for
nothingness, to explode. Nothingness can’t
do anything because it is, nothing.
The second word, ‘asah,’
refers to a pattern or design. Again
used in Genesis, as well as in our current verse, both angels and man and life
and all of creation were formed in accordance with a design. God had a plan. He did not shoot from the hip and wait to see
what would come of it all, He had a design, and that design existed before the
universe, before anything, came into existence.
Actually the plan or design, existed before everything existed. God is organized and extremely detailed and
very efficient and thorough. Our soul
was created in accordance with the pattern of God Himself, in His own image,
which does not refer to deity, but to the intellect and emotion and mental
abilities and ability to understand and decide and so forth. We are not animals ruled by instincts, but
intelligent beings ruled by our thoughts.
The third word is, ‘yatsar,’
which means to form something out of something, like a pot made out of
clay. And Adam, or his physical body,
was formed out of the dust. That is our
biological component. Human biological
life is perpetuated by means of the biological function of the male and female
interaction. I presume that I do not have
to explain that.
Note that the soul is not
biological and was not formed out of dust, but in accordance with the image of
God. Likewise, human life is not created
or formed out of dust, but formed instantly, ‘bara,’ out of nothing.
The fourth word, ‘banah,’
means to build, to construct, to sculpt, and again out of something. Eve was constructed out of Adam’s rib. I guess that is why we have the saying, women
are built. This is humor, of course, but
really it does fit the concept. The very
nature of the components, the rib, remain the same. The rib is biological and remains biological,
whereas the dust, a non-living thing in Adam’s case, was actually transformed
into life and something very different from its former essence.
The fifth word, 'atsab,' typically
used in conjunction with the second word, 'asah,' and is used to make it very
clear that mans origin was from God, and from no other source or mechanism. Man is not a product of random chance or
evolution, but came from Gods very careful and painstaking care of invention
and design. The word 'atsab' means to
fabricate, to carve, to use great care, to take great pains, while fashioning
or assembling a thing. And God did this
with respect to His plan and thus with every aspect in the implementation of
that plan.
So, back to our verse.
God spoke a single word
and all of creation, in its proper order, instantaneously came into existence,
in accordance with a plan, a design that existed prior to the creation.
God spoke and the angels
came into existence.
God spoke and the
universe came into existence.
God spoke, or speaks a
word and mans human life, comes into existence.
God spoke and your human life, the real you, were created instantly. And all of creation, even you, came about because
God planned a meticulous plan and brought it all into reality. And in each case, including you, where you
did not exist before, instantly came into existence.
Speaking a single word is
not a process, but a command.
