The 7 Day Creation
What does the Bible really say?
This is the beginning of a series of posts on Christianity. I’m not going to go through each denomination. I’m going through the Bible and giving some thoughts to help you think it through. We’ll start with the first chapter of Genesis and the six-day process of creation.
Day 1
God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was dark and without form. The Spirit of God was moving over the waters of the earth. God said, “Let there be light.” God separated the light from the darkness. The light he called day and the darkness night.
Day 2
God made firmament (atmosphere) to separate the waters above from the waters below and called the firmament heaven.
Day 3
God gathered the waters below the heavens creating seas and created dry land called Earth. God also created plants.
Day 4
God created lights in the firmament above the heavens. God created the sun to rule the day and the moon to rule the night.
Day 5
God created living creatures in the seas and birds in the air.
Day 6
God made land creatures. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of god he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Notice that God is multiple. Let “us” make man in “our” image.
Day 7
God rested.
This is the first account of the creation of man. Notice the first day, the Spirit of God was moving over the water. When man was made in the likeness of God, was man spirit? Man was made male and female. That would seem to be physical form. If we reverse the thought process, then if man is in the image of God, is God physical? How did the spirit of God move over the water? Those are questions to consider as we continue.