I guess they don't for you but they always have for me. It is a subtle but important distinction for which people even aside of the scriptural relevance, will pay huge sums of money for. The definition of a creation is something new and imaginative brought into existence. Think of a work of art like the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci. He created the painting and it fetches millions of dollars at an auction. Make a copy of it even by a talented painter in their own right and it is barely worth the oils it is painted with. A creation is unique whereas a copy made is not.
The difference in the usage of the words lies in the meaning of create to mean producing something new or original by using one’s talents, imagination or skill. This is usually in the form of something that would be considered artwork. For example: She created this masterpiece oil painting. Although ‘made’ could be used, it does not convey the same nuance of specialness or newness that ‘create’ does. This usage is the result of the etymology, or where the word came from. It came from the late Middle English and had the sense of forming something out of nothing, especially from a divine or supernatural being. This is in the sense we commonly use the related words ‘creation’ and ‘creature’ meaning things we believe that were brought into existence by God, or ‘created’.
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So the reason I point out the error "God
created the heavens and Earth
in six days" is because God's own words never said He did. He distinctly said He
made the heavens and earth in six days. I personally believe that God is well aware of the difference in the meanings of the words and He used the exact words to fit how He did it and how long it took Him.
Those who do not recognize the difference do so because of their need to put the creation of the heaven and earth of Gen 1:1 into the 6 days spoken of whereas plain reading without presuppositions like YEC, should readily point out that there is a break at Gen 1:2 describing the state of what He has already created as being waste and void.
2 the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
Young's Literal translation
Do you really think our Creator creates "waste and void"? That would not be a good description for how I think God would create and probably one of the reasons that in verse 4, he only mentions the light as being good:
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good:
If He had created the heaven and Earth on day one, I think it would be safe to assume He would have called it good too as a part of the total as He does
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
as the heavens and Earth have at that point had 6 days of being rebuilt from the waste and void state it was in before day one. So that would be the other reason He wouldn't have called the heavens and earth
good at the close of Day 1 as He only did work on the Light.
The heavens and Earth pre existing Day 1 is then the reason that God states He made them in 6 days, instead of having created them. It is an important distinction for those trying to harmonize physical evidence and the scriptures.