Unit 2: God’s relationship with the world

Question 1

How does God control the world?

Answer 1

• He speaks and causes things to come into existence
• The world’s dependent on the command of God
• Causes all things to exist
• Ensures that everything is provided for the Earth
• Supplies vegetation for animals to eat and water and sunlight for plants
• Seasons are controlled by God

Question 2

What is ex-nihilo?

Answer 2

The belief that God created the world from nothing.

Question 3

How does nature link to God’s existence?

Answer 3

Christians believe that everything God has created reveals His existence.

For example:
- The complexity of a butterfly
- The beauty of the ocean
- How the waves just stop at the sand’s shore
- Biological structure of the human body
- Intricacy of DNA
- Detail of a leaf
- The originality of a human fingerprint
- How the sun is at the exact distance between the Earth so we don’t die