‘God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between the light and the darkness. And God began calling the light Day’ (Genesis 1:3-5)
On the second day God separated the earth from the sky.
‘And God went on to say: “Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the water.’ (Genesis 1:6-8)
Consequently, on the third day God created dry land, plants and trees.
‘And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called seas. Further God saw that it was Good. And God went on to say: “Let the Earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth.” And it came to be so. (Genesis 1: 9-13)
On the fourth day God created the sun, moon and stars.
‘And God went on to say: “Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make the division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. (Genesis 1:14-19)
On the fifth day God created the fish and the birds.
‘And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.”
(Genesis 1: 20-23)
On the sixth day God created animals and birds and humans and also on the seventh day according to the book of Genesis, God rested.
‘And God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kind, domestic and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to their kind”. And it came to be so.’ (Genesis 1:24)
Humans were made at the same time and were made in the image of God: “So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.’ (Genesis 1:27).
Human were also made to have authority over the world: ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth’ (Genesis 1:26).
In the Christian cosmology, each part of the creation came about because of Gods words: ‘God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light’ (Genesis 1:3)
When God had finished his creation, it was prefect: ‘God saw all that he had made and it was very good’ (Genesis 1:31).
The fact that creation is seen as good by God and that God creates by speaking, influences both the way that Christians view the world and the way that they view God.
MR WILLIAMS SOUTH CHADDERTON SCHOOL
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