In this video short I hope to illustrate the literary beauty of the Genesis one story of God’s good creation. By the power of his word, our great God brings everything into existence. With the skill of a craftsman, our wise God forms that which was unformed and fills that which was unfilled. With the gentle touch of a sculptor, our holy Father shapes humanity to bear his image and sets us on the path to do his good works.
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Genesis and the Words of Creation
I asked the earth; and it answered, “I am not He,” and whatsoever are therein made the same confession. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the creeping things that lived, and they replied, “We are not thy God, seek higher than we.” I asked the breezy air, and the universal air with its inhabitants answered, “Anaximenes was deceived, I am not God.” I asked the heavens, the sun, moon and stars. “Neither, say they, “are we the God whom thou seekest.” And I answered unto all these things which stand about the door of my flesh, “Ye have told me concerning my God, that ye are not He; tell me something about Him.” And with a loud voice they exclaimed, “He made us.” My questioning was my observing of them; and their beauty was their reply.… I asked the vast bulk of the earth of my God, and it answered me, “I am not He, but He made me.”
—St. Augustine, Confessions 10.6.9
Genesis 1:1—2:3