Criação
A criação revela a glória de Deus. Céus, terra, mares e tudo o que existe testemunham o poder criador. No princípio Deus criou — e tudo era muito bom.
No princípio
No princípio criou Deus os céus e a terra. O Espírito de Deus pairava sobre as águas. E Deus disse: haja luz.
Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth. When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.
Then God said, "Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground."
So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female.
God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him."
O poder criador
Pela palavra do Senhor foram feitos os céus. Tudo foi criado por Ele e para Ele — o visível e o invisível.
Yahweh created everything in the sky by commanding it.
By what he said [MTY] he created all the stars.
Before you created the mountains,
before you formed the earth and everything that is in it,
you were eternally God,
and you will be God forever.
We should come, worship, and bow down before him.
We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.
When we travel toward Jerusalem,
I look up toward the hills and I ask myself, "Who will help me?"
And my answer is that Yahweh is the one who helps me;
he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY];
he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
This is the day in which we remember that Yahweh acted powerfully to defeat our enemies;
we will rejoice and be glad/happy today.
You created all the parts of my body;
you put the parts of my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you made my body in a very awesome and wonderful way.
Everything that you do is amazing!
I know that very well.
Criador e Sustentador
O Deus eterno não se cansa nem se fatiga. Dele, por Ele e para Ele são todas as coisas — a Ele seja a glória.
Have you never heard
and have you never understood
that Yahweh is the everlasting God;
he is the one who created the earth, even the most distant places on the earth.
He never becomes weak or weary,
and no one can find out how much he understands.
Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, the one who created them.
They are like [MET] a clay pot and I am like the one who made it;
so they certainly cannot [RHQ] criticize me.
A lump of clay certainly cannot [RHQ] argue with the one who shapes it to form a pot, saying,
‘Why are you making me like this?’
The pot cannot say ‘You have no skill, because what you made has no handles!’
"Yahweh, you are my Lord! You made the sky and the earth by your very great power. [MTY, DOU] Nothing is too difficult for you to do.
He builds his beautiful palace in heaven,
and sets/causes the sky to be like a dome over the earth.
He scoops up the water from the ocean and puts it into clouds,
and then empties the clouds onto the earth.
His name is Yahweh.
God is the one who created all things. He is also the one who sustains all things. The reason that he created them was that everything he created might praise him. May all people honor him forever! ◄May it be so!/Amen!►
People cannot see what God is like. But ever since he created the world, by means of what he created he has clearly revealed what he is like. He has made clear to everyone that he has always been able to do very powerful things. Therefore, we should recognize that God is powerful, completely different from all that he created. So no one has a basis for saying, "We never knew about God."
The things that God has created are very eagerly waiting for the time [PRS, DOU] when God will reveal who his true children are.
Nova criação
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criatura é. O Criador faz novas todas as coisas — na natureza e na redenção.
The fact is that God makes every one of us who trusts in Christ to be completely different than we were before. Our old way of conducting our lives is gone. We now have a completely new way of conducting our lives.
It is God who has made us what we are now. Because of our relationship with Christ Jesus, he has enabled us to receive spiritual/eternal life in order that we should conduct our lives habitually doing the good deeds that God previously planned for us to do.
And because he wanted to help us, he gave us spiritual life as a result of our trusting in his true message. So now we have become the first ones of all the people [MET] that he created to ◄be totally dedicated to/completely belong to► him.
Just like every house is made by someone {as someone makes every house}, Jesus made everything, and he is God/Divine. So God has considered that Jesus is worthy that people honor him more than they honor Moses, just like the one who builds a house deserves that people honor him more than they should honor the house he built.
As someone has said, ‘It is only because he enables us that we (inc) live and move and do what we do.’ And, as some of your own poets have said, ‘We (inc) are God’s children.’
I also heard every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the ocean, every creature in all those places, saying (OR, singing):
"We must forever praise and honor the one who sits on the throne
and the one who is like a lamb,
May they reign with complete power forever!"