cre·a·tion   (krē-ā'shən)    n.   The act of creating. The fact or state of having been created. The world and all things in it. All creatures or a class of creatures. The act of investing with a new office or title. The world and all things in it. All creatures or a class of creatures. Creation The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence. An original product of human invention or artistic imagination: the latest creation in the field of computer design. cre·a'tion·al adj.

Creation

Cre*a"tion\ (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr?ation. See Create.]

1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

From the creation to the general doom. --Shak.

As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. --Locke.

2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.

We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom. viii. 22.

A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak.

Choice pictures and creations of curious art. --Beaconsfield.

3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

An Irish peer of recent creation. --Landor.

Creation

God's creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis, commencing in this way: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’: and there was light.” According to this account, the Creation took six days, with God creating Adam and Eve on the sixth day and resting on the seventh day. Genesis also gives another account of the Creation, in which God makes Adam out of clay, prepares the Garden of Eden for him, and then fashions Eve out of Adam's rib.

Creation

"In the beginning" God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things exists only in the will of God. The work of creation is attributed (1) to the Godhead (Gen. 1:1, 26); (2) to the Father (1 Cor. 8:6); (3) to the Son (John 1:3; Col. 1:16, 17); (4) to the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:2; Job 26:13; Ps. 104:30). The fact that he is the Creator distinguishes Jehovah as the true God (Isa. 37:16; 40:12, 13; 54:5; Ps. 96:5; Jer. 10:11, 12). The one great end in the work of creation is the manifestation of the glory of the Creator (Col. 1:16; Rev. 4:11; Rom. 11:36). God's works, equally with God's word, are a revelation from him; and between the teachings of the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no contradiction. Traditions of the creation, disfigured by corruptions, are found among the records of ancient Eastern nations. (See ACCAD.) A peculiar interest belongs to the traditions of the Accadians, the primitive inhabitants of the plains of Lower Mesopotamia. These within the last few years have been brought to light in the tablets and cylinders which have been rescued from the long-buried palaces and temples of Assyria. They bear a remarkable resemblance to the record of Genesis.