Hey Atlas,

You can call me Chip if you like. Herami is just my handle (as in "Here am I, send me" Isaiah 6:8)




To CREATE something is to cause something into being out of nothing.
"in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

To MAKE something is to form something out of already existing matter, such as an earth that is "without form and void."
...which God did in 6 LITERAL CONSECUTIVE days.

...as in "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth"

"Create" is ALWAYS an act of God alone and is ALWAYS from nothing.
"Make" can be done by God, man, animals, angels, devils, me, you, you name it, and is always from preexisting materials.


In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
THIS is when He laid the foundation of the earth.
The sons of God were there to see God do it. They shouted for joy.
God gave them the earth to have dominion over, but Lucifer brought the whole kingdom to ruin when he attempted to ascend into heaven and exalt his throne above the stars of God (Isaiah 14:12-20 )
The earth lay waste and desolate. It was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

God CREATED.
God DESTROYED.
God MADE from the DESTRUCTION in 6 LITERAL CONSECUTIVE DAYS.

in 6 LITERAL CONSECUTIVE 24 HOUR DAYS, the Lord God MADE (NOT "CREATED") the heaven and the earth.

He MADE it (NOT "CREATED") from the existing material from the destruction in verse 2.

He did "create" a few things, such as whales and the soul part of man.
The rest was MADE (NOT "CREATED") from what was destroyed.

Hence, we find THIS ---

"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Genesis 2:3

Notice it says that God rested from the work He created AND made.

He did BOTH!
God Himself differentiates between the two in Genesis 2:3


God doesn’t use raw material to create anything!
God creates ex nihilo -Out of NOTHING!

God CREATED man by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life (his SOUL)
God MADE man by forming him out of the dust of the earth. (his BODY)

Man's body was MADE, nor CREATED.

God used dust to MAKE Adam.
God used Adams rib to MAKE Eve.

But God CREATED Adam’s soul from nothing.