CREATION

Genesis 1
 OBJECTIVES
• To define the word ‘Creation’

• Narrate the creation story according to

Genesis 1

• Deduce the attributes of God from His

work of creation
WHAT IS CREATION?
• Creation is the ability to bring
into existence what was not
existing
ACCOUNT OF
CREATION
 DAY 1
• God created light
(Genesis 1: 1-5)
In the beginning there was total darkness
and God said ‘let there be light’ and the light
appeared
 DAY 2
• God made the firmament
(Genesis 1:6-8)
God separated the waters from the
waters and the waters above He
called the Heavens. This includes
the skies and the clouds
 Day 3
• God made the Seas, Land and
Vegetation (Genesis 1 : 9-13)
and God said let the earth bring
forth grass, herbs that yields seed
and the fruit tree that yields fruit
according to its kind
 DAY 4
• God created the heavenly bodies
(Genesis 1:14-19)
God made the Sun, Moon, Stars and
other Planets. The Sun was to rule the
day and the Moon and Stars to rule the
night
 DAY 5
• GOD made the Sea animals and the
birds of the air(Genesis 1 : 20-23)

God created sea creatures and every living things

that move in the water and every winged bird
according to its kind and He said be fruitful and
multiply and fill the waters in the sea and let birds
multiply in the earth
 DAY 6
• God created land animals and man
(Genesis 1:24)
On the last day God created different animals
according to their kinds and God saw that it was good
and He said ‘let us make man in our own image
according to our likeness and let him have dominion
over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and the
beast of the earth’. And God blessed them and said
‘be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth’
 DAY 7
• God rested from all His work on
the seventh day and He
sanctified it and called it the
Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3)
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CREATION STORY
• God made the world by His power
• God created an aspect of nature everyday
• God created a clean and a beautiful world