Quiz: On God, the Creator and Provider

According to the interpretation of the Church Fathers, before the visible world was created, the invisible world was brought into being. The basis for this interpretation is found in the phrase: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1), where the word "heavens" refers not to empty space or what we commonly call the sky, but to the realm of invisible spirits—the angels. In this understanding, the verse could be paraphrased: “In the beginning, God created the invisible world and the visible world.” The visible heavens (what we ordinarily call the sky) were created later, specifically on the second day of creation, as Scripture attests: “Then God said, 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.' Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.” (Gen. 1:6-8).