Creating by Separation
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. – Genesis 1:4-5
In continuation of our meditation on some of the principles that God applies in His creation, today we will dwell on the principle of separation. God creates things by separating one thing from another to form a brand-new creature.
From our reference scripture above, after God created the light, He also saw potential for another creature from the light He just made. He immediately set to work by dividing the light from darkness which was the pervasive entity around when He started His work. With these entities thus separated, God called the light day and the darkness He named night.
This was not a one-off principle that God used in the creative process, He also deployed the same method in creating other elements such as heaven, earth surface, and the body of ocean. Find excerpts below:
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven... Genesis 1:7-8
Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas… (Genesis 1:9-10)
With this, God demonstrated to us that by separating certain entities, a new, unique, standalone creation can emerge. It is important to clarify that this principle will not work for every form of creation as God Himself also proved by not creating everything that way. He only did so with the elements that were amenable to that form. But who says you cannot try it yourself and see which works and which will not?
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