Some Important Bible Verses Related to Creation
From NIV translation
1. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The Bible doesn’t try to prove the existence of God, as His existence should
be obvious to everyone (see Psalms 19:1-4 and Romans 1:20).
2. Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him
Man is a separate creation from the animals, man is NOT an animal. We share
many of the same design elements because both man and animals must live in
the same environment, and we share biochemistry because man eats plants
and animals for energy (although man and all the animals were originally
created to be vegetarians – see Genesis 1:29-30, after the flood man was given
permission by God to eat meat – see Genesis 9:3)
3. Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of
the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
The mandate from God for scientific study – man could only subdue and rule
over the creation by studying it.
4. Genesis 1:29-30
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all
the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food.”
Man and all the animals were originally created to be vegetarians. But God,
knowing that man would sin, endowed many animals with latent features that
would later allow them to be meat-eaters.
5. Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
The original creation was perfect. How could God call the finished creation
“very good” if it was produced through millions of years of death, “survival of
the fittest”, and extinction? 1 Corinthians 15:26 says: The last enemy to be
destroyed is death. This clearly indicates that death was not part of God’s very
good creation.
6. Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
The life of God was infused into man only one time in history, and that life
has been passed from generation to generation all the way down to you and
me!
7. Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between
your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
At the time of the sin of Adam and Eve, the first biblical reference to a future
savior.
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8. Genesis 3:17-18
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and
ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed
is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of
your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you...”
The Fall of Man not only introduced death, God also cursed the creation itself
allowing for physical calamities to take place (e.g. tornadoes, floods, etc.).
This was a removal of God’s complete sustaining power so decay would begin
to take place (Adam and Eve did not die immediately). See Deuteronomy 8:4.
Life spans would gradually be shortened. See also Romans 5:12 and 8:22.
9. Genesis 6:13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for
the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both
them and the earth...”
The Bible describes the great flood as an actual historical event.
10. Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave
you the green plants, I now give you everything.
After the flood man (and the animals) were given permission by God to eat
meat.
11. Genesis 9:11 I [God] establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life
be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the
earth.
If the great flood was just a local flood, as some maintain, then God has
broken this promise many times! Genesis 7:19-23 certainly portrays a global
flood: They [the waters] rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains
under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the
mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved
on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that
swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the
breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth
was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground
and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and
those with him in the ark.
12. Genesis 11:9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused
the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the
face of the whole earth.
The Bible explains why there are different languages.
13. Deuteronomy 8:4
Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell
during these forty years.
During the Israelites wanderings in the desert prior to their entry into the
Promised Land, God supernaturally preserved their clothing and their ability
to do much walking. This is a hint of what life would have been like in the
Garden of Eden, before God removed some of His sustaining power over the
creation due to the Fall of Man.
14. Job 40:15-19 “Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which
feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the
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muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar, the sinews of his thighs are
close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks
first among the works of God...”
The Bible describes what appears to be a large dinosaur, having a tail like a
cedar tree and being the most impressive animal God made. It shows that Job
knew of dinosaurs and that they lived at the same time as mankind, not 65
millions years prior to man. Dinosaurs were created on day six along with the
other animals.
15. Jonah 2:6
To the roots of the mountains I sank down
A modern scientific insight – Jonah (860 B.C.) describes that there are
mountains under the ocean.
16. Psalms 8:8
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths
of the seas.
Another modern scientific insight – ocean currents.
17. Psalms 19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim
the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they
display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
The creation clearly shows that God must exist! See also Romans 1:20.
18. Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are
like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them
out like a tent to live in.
Also Job 26:7 he suspends the earth over nothing.
More modern scientific insights – that the earth is a sphere suspended in
space; and that the universe has been “stretched out” (the universe is
expanding).
19. Mark 10:6
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and
female.’
Jesus stated that people were created at “the beginning,” not billions of years
after the formation of the earth.
20. John 3:16
“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...”
The coming of Jesus to be our savior is the pivotal point of all history!
21. Hebrews 1:11 They [the earth and the heavens] will perish, but you remain; they
will all wear out like a garment.
Another modern scientific insight, describing the “Second Law of
Thermodynamics” (the universal principle that everything is “mixing
together” and decaying, and that the universe would eventually die a “heat
death” (but God will end history long before that of course).
22. Colossians 1:17
He [Christ] is before all things, and in him all things hold
together.
What is the “strong nuclear force”? It is the power of God Himself that holds
the universe together!
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23. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his
eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
The creation clearly shows that God must exist! See also Psalms 19:1-4.
24. Romans 2:16 This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets
through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Jesus Christ will come again to judge all people.
25. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned
Clearly teaches that death is the result of sin – Adam’s sin. Even though it was
Eve that got Adam to eat the forbidden fruit, God had put Adam in charge of
the Garden of Eden and so it was Adam that is held accountable.
26. Romans 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains
of childbirth right up to the present time.
Refers back to Genesis 3:17-18, where God cursed the creation itself,
introducing decay into the perfect world.
27. 2 Peter 3:12 That day [the day of the Lord] will bring about the destruction of
the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
The present universe will one day be destroyed by intense fire – God will have
released all of his sustaining power.
28. Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth had passed away
There will be a new heaven and a new earth that will be very good again.
29. Revelation 21:3-4
Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with
them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their
God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or
mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
Everything will be as it once was in the original creation.
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