In the beginning, God created… And it was good | Genesis 1:1, 31 New International Version (NIV)
Bara: To Create
Asah: To Make
“God created us to know him and love him and show him. And then he gave us a hint of what he is like — the universe. The universe is declaring the glory of God and the reason we exist is to see it and be stunned by it and glorify God because of it.”
Why Did God Create the World” by John Piper
I lift up my eyes to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121: 1-2
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
GENESIS 1: 26-28 (NIV)
God Cares for All People | 2Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)
“If we are able to regard others as we regard Christ, we must see them as beings open to his grace and we must learn to see ourselves, and live our lives, as His chosen, redeemed, empowered servants, who think more highly of others than ourselves.”
crosswalk.com – T.M. Moore
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17 (NIV)