As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.