Created By God :

The Earth and the whole universe was created by God. On the first day of creation he created light and darkness. On the second day he created water and sky. On the third day he seperated the dry ground from the oceans and created all vegetation. On the forth day he created the sun, moon, and stars. On the fifth day he created all of the water dwelling creatures. On this day he also created all of the birds. On the sixth day he created all of the creatures of the land. It was on this day that he gave life to man. He called this man Adam. On the seventh day God rested.

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This question is potentially too broad in scope to answer fully, so it is better to assume that the reader wanted an answer from a Christian perspective, and therefore the answer(s) must be found in the Bible.

There are 3 biblical sources of information on the creation of the world: 2 in Genesis and a fragmentary one in Psalms. Because the third one is fragmentary, I will ignore it in favour of (1) Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a ; and Genesis 2:4b to 2:15.

In Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a ( up to first sentence of 2:4) there was a pre-existing watery chaos. The ocean was already present and a wind moved across the surface. The seas rested on the dry land, which appeared on day 3 when God gathered the waters together. The order of creation was as follows:

(Day 1) light (day); (2) the firmament, which was believed to separate the waters of the heavens from the lower waters; (3) By gathering the lower waters in one place the land appeared. Grasses and trees; (4) sun; moon and stars - the lights in the firmament; (5) fish, land creatures and fowl; (6) man, both male and female. Notice that the light of day was not yet understood to have originated from the sun, although the sun was universally understood to rule the day. That is why it was possible to have grass and trees before the sun was created.

Genesis 2:4b to 2:15 is actually the older account in the Judaic religion and says that there was pre-existing dry land, but Yahweh had yet to make it rain for plants to grow. A spring arose and God took some moist clay and made Adam.

The King James Version contains a translation that is so obscure that few probably try to understand it fully. However, there are clearer translations that are also closer to the original Hebrew, one being the (Catholic) New American Bible which provides a clearer translation of the original Hebrew verses 2:4-6:

Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens - while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground ...

The order of creation in the second creation story is that God made man before he created the creatures in his domain. There is no mention at all of God creating the sun, moon and stars.
More information can be found in Anchor Bible Series: Genesis (Speiser) and Middle Eastern Mythology (Hooke).

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Either everything came from nothing or everything came from something. We can not comprehend either possibility; so we make up stories the become religions (then fight like children over who is right). I choose to believe everything came from something - that something is my God. I think our difference is only in the words we are using. "Something" from "ex nihilo."

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I actually belief both, if you can comprehend that! My God did create everything, though everthing was created out of nothing, or in the original language, ex nihilo, which simply means out of nothing.

I know that they are really the same thing, but I consider this idea to be two streets that end up at the same intersection.

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