Another Psalm that starts with praise, he must have been on a roll here! The last one started with the Psalmist praising God for His goodness towards him, here he praises God for who He is. There is such a rich variety of ways in which the Psalms talk about God and the Psalmist's relationship with God.
The Lord is great and is clothed with splendour and majesty. The focus is then in God's attributes as creator of the universe. Creation is absolutely central to our understanding of the world and theology. "In the beginning God ..." Without God there would be nothing. If you think too hard about how we can exist you will give yourself a headache! You may even drive yourself mad. The truth is that we were all created by the Lord, that is why our relationship with and attitude towards Him is so important.
Verse 5 is a warning to wrongly literal interpretations of the Bible. For a time it was thought that the earth was fixed, and everything orbited around it. We now know that this is not true, and it does not cause anyone any theological problems! Moreover, the succeeding verses show that he talking about the land. Anyway, the Psalmist is talking about how God created the earth. It is the fact that He created the earth that is central, not the precise processes used, or the manner in which He did this.
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