Daily Question #1

In the first two chapters of Genesis, God essentially creates the world in which we live today. In the beginning, Earth was a “void” covered with darkness (Genesis 1:1:1-3), so God created light, saw it was good, and the day separated from the night, creating the first day. God goes on to create the sky, vegetation, the sun and moon, animals, and finally, humans. God rests on the 7th day. After God creates each thing, He sees that it is inherently good. When God creates humans, He creates us in His own image. We are to have dominion over all living things, and we are to be stewards of the world that God has created. The world created by God in the first few days of creation is unfulfilled and unformed. On the first three days, God creates the Earth and he spends the last three filling it with living things, the last being humans. I believe that God created humans on the final day before he rests because of the fact that we were created in his image. God creates the world for us to live and thrive, and provides us with all we need to live in his image. He creates a perfect world for his perfect creations. Thus, in this account, humans are given great responsibility- to care for the world that God has created, essentially, for us. The human person is meant to care for the world that God has made and to live in his image. After God creates humans, the Seventh Day, he rests. He has finished creating the world, and after creating humans, trusts us to take care of it, and finally relaxes. God is all-powerful and does not need to take a physical rest in the slightest, but instead, he prepares to sustain the world that he has created when he rests on the Seventh Day. The Bible is also a source that shows us how we should live our lives, and by God resting on the Seventh Day, we are shown that in our busy lives, we must take a break, sit back, and praise the Lord.