By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who has created these, who brings out their host by number? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one is lacking.
and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;
(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.
For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,