The Apostle's Creed

Creator of heaven and earth

Everything is either infinite or finite. If finite: either the world was created, or it came into being by itself. If it was created, the Creator either made this world and left it alone, or He is continually involved in the world He made. God is infinite.

An atheist does not believe in God; thus believes the world is either infinite, or came into being without a creator, and is on its own.

An agnostic believes that it is humanly impossible to know if there is a God or not; can not therefore be sure of a Creator.

An evolutionist believes the world came into being without God, or that a god got life started and then that life has evolved (one species changed to another over very long periods of time).

A pantheist believes everything is in God, and God is in everything, the creation created itself.

A creationist believes everything that exists, was created from nothing, by a supreme, infinite Being-God.

A deist believes God has no interaction with His creation.

A theist believes God created and is closely involved with creation. (Most Christians are theists)

Scripture
1. "God created the heavens and earth." (time, space, matter, life)
Genesis 1:1-10, John 1:1-3, Col.1:16,

2. "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork." (order, and natural laws) Ps. 91:1, Gen.1:14-19

3. The plants, fish, birds, insects and animals: Gen.1:11-13, 20-25
were created to reproduce after their own kind.
There is no true evidence of one species changing into another species.

4. "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness" Gen.1:26-27
‘image' = physical presence, ‘likeness' = inward character. Man's presence is a trinity (body, spirit, soul) 1Thess.5:23. Our character is to reason, create, and moralize. We recognize goodness, respond to it. We are created in God's image.

5. Our lives are predetermined by God: Acts 17:26; Ps.139:13-16