The Bible affirms in several places that Jesus Christ is the Creator God. See John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16. We can compare some aspects of creation with the works of Jesus.

1 – Creation out of nothing and/or from existing materials

Jesus’ first miracle involved the creation of wine from water for a wedding banquet. How did Jesus change water into wine so quickly and just by speaking? It takes years to great a high quality wine. Jesus is the creator and it doesn’t take God long to create. It is not time that turns water into wine. It is talent that turns water into wine!

Other examples are the two times when Jesus fed a multitude: on the first occasion more than 5,000 people from five loaves and two fish, and on the second occasion more than 4,000 people from seven loaves and a few little fish. Some of Jesus’ miracles of healing of lepers, the blind and paralytics involved the instant repair of tissues, nerves, muscles and the instantaneous growth or re-growth of healthy cells.

2 – The giving of life

Jesus gave life to the dead on three occasions: to a widow’s son, to Jairus’ daughter and to his friend Lazarus. Jesus called Lazarus back to life and the molecules of matter that were in the process of becoming dust became, again, a living human being.

3 – The method Jesus used

What happened in these and in all of Jesus’ miracles was that Jesus willed the event to happen and it did. This is nowhere better illustrated than in the healing of the nobleman’s son. Jesus was at Cana in Galilee and a certain royal official asked Him to travel to Capernaum to heal his son who was close to death. Jesus willed the sick boy to recover, at a distance of 27 kilometres, and he did so. Similarly, Jesus willed the water to become wine, as it was being taken into the wedding feast in Cana, and it did so. He willed the bread and fish to form and they did and He willed the 10 lepers to become well after they had left Him and was on their way to the priests, and they were healed.

4 – Jesus’ glory seen in his miracles

John calls Jesus’ miracles’ signs and in his Gospel John shows which way the signs point: ‘these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name’. Jesus Christ is the Creator God. Not only does Scripture affirm it, but during His earthly life and ministry He did the very things we would expect the Creator God to do. He did them in the way that we would expect the Creator God to do them—by His word of authority and the exercise of His will. And the doing of them displayed His glory.

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