Instruction: Read Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 and Genesis

2:4 – 25. Then do the following items. Write your

answer in the provided form in the TLC.
1. Enumerate the created things in each da.DAY 1 OF CREATION (the first day - light was
created)

Formless, empty, and dark the earth was at the start. “Let there be light,” God said, and then
there were two parts. The light he called “day” and darkness he called “night”. And this was
just the start of God’s show of might.

GENESIS 1:1-5

1, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless
and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the
light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,”
and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first
day.

DAY 2 OF CREATION (the second day - the sky was created)

God proceeded on the second day, His power he continued to display. An expanse was
made to separate the waters, God called it “heaven” then evening came after.

GENESIS 1: 6-8

6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the
waters from the waters.” 7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were
under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God
called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

DAY 3 OF CREATION (the third day - dry land, seas, plants, and trees were created)

Land and sea were next to be, God spoke, then came forth plants and trees. The earth
brought forth all kinds of seeds and God was truly pleased with his deeds.

GENESIS 1: 9-12

9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and
let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that
were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 And God said,
“Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is
their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth brought
forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in
which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there
was evening and there was morning, the third day.

DAY 4 OF CREATION (the fourth day - the Sun, Moon, and stars were created)

Two lights he created to illuminate and give sight, The greater light ruled the day, the other
the night. Stars were next, in the sky they stood, and God saw that it was very good.

GENESIS 1:14-19

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15 and let
them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16
And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to
rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give
light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from
the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was
morning, the fourth day.

DAY 5 OF CREATION (the fifth day - creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly
were created)

God decided it was time to make creatures, The earth was almost a complete picture. Both
winged and water kinds swarmed the earth, And in His perfect plan, there was no dearth.

GENESIS 1:20-23

20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea
creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to
their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22
And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and
let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth
day.

DAY 6 OF CREATION (the sixth day - animals that live on the land and finally humans,
made in the image of God were created)

“Let the earth bring forth the living creatures” That’s how animals became a permanent
fixture. Finally, God made man in his own image, And that began Adam’s very own lineage.
GENESIS 1: 24-31

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—
livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock
according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And
God saw that it was good. 26 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
heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him; male and female he created them. 28 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 heavens and over every living thing that moves on
the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on
the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that
creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for
food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

DAY 7 OF CREATION (by day seven - God finished his work of creation and rested, making
the seventh day a special holy day.

Creation was completed in their vast array, So God rested on the very seventh day.

He blessed the day and made it holy, And that was the close of the creation story.

GENESIS 2: 1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day,
he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because
on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

2. The first three days (1-3) were called “days

of forming” while the succeeding three days
(4-6) were called “days of filling”. Why?
3. Write a reflection on Genesis 1:1-2.
- Genesis 1:1 announced that God created everything: "the heavens and the earth."
Verse 2 begins to describe the process of that creation.The Book of Genesis opens
the Hebrew Bible with the story of creation. God, a spirit hovering over an empty,
watery void, creates the world by speaking into the darkness and calling into being
light, sky, land, vegetation, and living creatures over the course of six days. The
 second verse says, "And the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the
surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters"
(Genesis 1:2).
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4. Write a reflection on Genesis 1:26 – 29.

- Genesis 1:26–31 describes the origin of human beings, the most unique of all God's
creations.the idea that God endowed humans with a certain kind of awareness, one
which animals and birds and fish were not given. In other words, humans would
possess the capacity for reason, morality, language, personality, and purpose. In
particular, the ability to use morality and spirituality are unique to human beings
among God's creations on earth. Like God, we would possess the capacity to
experience and understand love, truth, and beauty.
Humans are made in God's image in another way: as a model, or a representative.
God is the Maker, and all of creation belongs to Him. He is Lord over it. However, in
the moment of creation, God gives mankind the responsibility to rule over all other life
He has made on the earth. In that sense, humans would stand as God's image,
God's representatives, on earth as we rule over and manage all the rest of His
creation.
5. Write a reflection on Genesis 1:31.
- On each day of this creation week, God recognized what He made as good. Now,
having created mankind to populate and rule over this world, God declares what He
has made as "very good." The balance of nature, the process of reproduction, and
the supremacy of mankind are all part of this "goodness." As such, Genesis chapter
1 not only credits God as Creator, and dispels other religious myths, it also
establishes His stamp of approval on the natural order.
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- On every day, at each step along the way, God declared what He would make, and
then He made it. He succeeded in creating the perfect version of what He, in His
absolute perfection, decided to create. After six days of creation, the universe not
only existed, but it was flawless in beauty, in function, in purpose, and in potential.
God saw all of it and saw that it was very good.
6. Write a reflection on Genesis 2:2.
- Genesis 2:1–3 describes the seventh day of God's creation week, in which God
rested from His work. Of all the days of the week, God declares the seventh day both
blessed and holy, pointing forward to the time when God would command the
Israelites to honor the Sabbath day and keep it holy. The symbolism and importance
of this resting by God will become a major theme of the rest of Scripture.As the
previous verse made clear, God completed His work of creation on the sixth day. The
week was not over, however. The seventh day mattered to God and became the
most important of all of the days of the week. Having completed His work, God
rested. This is the point where the pattern of chapter 1 is halted. On each of the six
creation days, God did specific work and saw that it was good. On the seventh day,
He did no work.
7. Compare and contrast the creation story in
Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4 – 25.
 - The two creation accounts also have different literary styles, scope, and
organizational principles. Genesis 1 describes the creation of the entire cosmos
(heaven and earth) over six days, with repetition and patterning, climaxing with God’s
rest on the seventh day. By contrast, Genesis 2 (the first chapter of the Garden story)
is more straightforwardly a narrative in the formal sense, with a series of tensions
and resolutions. And in contrast to the wide-angle view of Genesis 1, which surveys
the cosmos as a whole, Genesis 2 zooms in telescopically on humanity on the
earth.Perhaps most significantly for those attempting to harmonize Genesis with
science, there is a different order of creative events in each chapter. To begin with,
the two creation accounts open with different (indeed, opposite) descriptions of the
initial state of the world. Whereas Genesis 1 starts with the earth inundated with
water (Gen 1:2), so that God has to separate the waters for the dry land to emerge
(Gen 1:9), Genesis 2 begins with the earth as a dry wilderness (Gen 2:5), until a
stream or mist emerges to provide water (Gen 2:6).Then, attending to just those
creative events mentioned in both chapters, the following divergences are evident.
Genesis 1 has water first, then land, followed by plants, animals, and finally humans
(’adam, consisting in male and female together). By contrast, Genesis 2 begins with
the existence of land, then comes water, followed by a human (’adam, later specified
as a man, ’iš), then plants, animals, and finally a woman (’iššâ).
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8. What do you think is the message of these
creation stories to you/us? (write your
answer in 7 – 10 sentences)
- The Bible answers, declaring that God is the creator of all that is--and the re-creator
of all that has been bent or broken. Not only is the theme of creation found in the first
chapters of Genesis, but it also runs throughout the Bible. Creation is a master theme
of Scripture, a sightline that brings much of biblical revelation into perspective. The
point is that God is the one who is still using his creative power. God is still the one
who is strong and in charge, and he's also commissioned his people to continue to
be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth with his glory. I have to stop and realize, this is
the almighty, all-knowing, sovereign God who has never changed. He knew what
would happen to his creation at the exact same time he chose to make it. He knew
sin would be in our hearts. He knew we would betray him. He knew we would spit in
his face. He knew our precious Lord Jesus Christ would hang on the cross and this
moment would occur. He knew all this would happen, yet he proclaimed 6 times
about his creation, “it was good” and one time he affirmed, “it was very good”. Some
may look at the bad things in this world and say, “how can a loving God let this
happen?”. I, however, look at all these bad things and think, only someone who loves
selflessly and truly can create this world knowing how we would turn from him. The
bad things were not caused by him, they were and continue to be caused by us and
our rebellion from God. Yet our God has always loved us. He loved us before he
 made us. He loved us enough to set life into motion, knowing very well that Adam
and Eve would sin and so would each and every one of us. Yes when I read through
Genesis and read through the creation story, I see Christ. I see the blood covering
our sins. I see a love that is so amazing, so awe-inspiring. I see my Heavenly Father
breathe life into this Earth with the knowledge of what’s to come. I see my Heavenly
Father and His perfect plan of laying The Son’s life down for ours. I see love. I see
that “it was very good“.
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* For items 3 – 5, write your short reflection in three
to five sentences.

1. The first three days describe the creation of realms of habitation, while the
second three creation days describe the inhabitants of those realms. In each
of the first three days there is an act of division: day one divides the darkness
from light, day two the "waters above" from the "waters below", and day three
the sea from the land, then the remaining three days are the inhabitants.
Darkness and light are separated on the first day, but the sun, moon, and
stars are not created until the fourth day.
2.