God created the universe, but he is not identical with it. Noticeably the sun, moon, and stars are described purely physically, as “lights.” There is no hint of conferring any kind of divinity on them as in the contemporary pagan mythologies. Nor is the universe some kind of emanation out of God, like sun rays emanate from the sun. Matter is made out of nothing, not out of God. The Genesis account, therefore, bears no traces of pantheism.
