When I look up the word 'manifest' in various dictionaries I get a similar synonym...awareness. This is why I used my analogy of anger to try an explain my line of thinking. The emotion of anger is part of us from birth but may not become manifest until later in life. We make a choice to let ourselves be angry but we don't create the emotion of anger. Jesus (the Word) was with God and was God in the beginning. God said, "Let there be light and there was light." Did He create the light or just let the light, which already existed within, shine or manifest if you will?
This could become a real brain teaser couldn't it?
This is actually a really good post. I'm starting to understand. So it all comes back to his glory, but what about the
creation of the universe. Was the universe created or manifested.
Perhaps this applies?
Genesis 1:
6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.â€
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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.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appearâ€; and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:
1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work
which God had created and made.
4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth
when they were created, in the day that
the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown.
