creation

• Creation


  1. DAY 1: Light was created and night was created

  2. DAY 2: Sky and water was created

  3. DAY 3: Land, Earth, water, sea and plants were created

  4. DAY 4: Sun, moon and stars were created

  5. DAY 5: Animals, birds and sea creatures were created

  6. DAY 6: Humans were created
• God created light and dark
• God created sky and water
• God created earth, water, sea and plants
• God created sun, moon and stars
• God created animals, birds and sea creatures
• God created humans
• Omnipotent


  Only important and powerful
• Omniscient


  All Knowing
• Omni-benevolent


  All loving
• Transcendent


  God is everywhere and exists outside of nature
• Infinite


  God is not limited by time or space
• There are 2 different creation stories in the Bible
• Perspectives on the Bible

  • Literalists - understand the Bible literally as factual
  • Liberals - accept the Bible contains theological truth, the meaning is important
• Theological truth


  Things we believe
• Scientific truth


  Facts that can be proven scientifically
• Myth


  A traditional story accepted as history
• God called this expanse "sky."
• God made two great lights—the larger light to govern the day and the smaller light to govern the night.
• He also made the stars.