How can intangible hands mold clay? And why bother mold it? If God magically creates things ex nihilo, why didn't He simply pop the earth into existence fully molded already?
My reading makes a lot more sense.
Job 38:
2 “Who is this who darkens
the divine plan
By words without knowledge?
3 Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man,
And I shall ask you, and you inform Me!
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell
Me, if you have understanding...
5 Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
6 On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or
who enclosed the sea with doors
When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;
9 When I made a cloud its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling bands,
10 And I placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,
11 And I said, ‘As far as this point you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
God initiated the physical beginnings from outside the created order in His eternal spiritual state along with the Son and the Spirit. This was not done physically but simply at His bidding - the intent of His will is supreme and He alone has the ability to create something out of nothing.
It is worth noting that true believers are given this same faith in the Spirit as sons and daughters of Abraham.
This is indeed is why true believers believe that Jesus was raised in the flesh. A corpse has no hope, no future, Nada...
But God's Spirit acted from outside the created order and raised Him from the dead.
It is worth noting that Jesus in His resurrected body was able to transition from being physical to spiritual at will. But to suggest that He is unable to affect the physical unless He Himself is physical makes no sense - the wind and the waves obeyed Him long before He was physically in the boat with the disciples.