In the beginning God created heaven and earth. 2. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
The first creation account is divided into seven days during which God creates light (day 1); the sky (day 2); the earth, seas, and vegetation (day 3); the sun and moon (day 4); animals of the air and sea (day 5); and land animals and humans (day 6). God rested from his work on the seventh day of creation, the Sabbath.
Genesis 1 begins with: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 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. And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
There is no mention of anything pre-dating God in the Bible, so he created the heavens and the earth from nothing. Hebrews 1:10 and 11:3 confirm this: “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”
From here, we can say that God created man first for Himself; to do His work and mission for Him. He ought to be fully developed, molded into His likeness in strength and in character. And then after this, God creates his Eve – or should I say, He lets Adam meet his Eve.
Our universe began with an explosion of space itself - the Big Bang. Starting from extremely high density and temperature, space expanded, the universe cooled, and the simplest elements formed. Gravity gradually drew matter together to form the first stars and the first galaxies.
Perhaps the oldest ever human invention is the hand axe, the oldest examples of which date back 2.6 million years, found in Ethiopia. To say that they are a human invention is debatable; they were invented by precursors to Homo sapiens, either by Australopithecus garhi or Homo habilis.
Here are the things created on each day: day 1 - light and darkness; day 2 - sky and sea; day 3 - land; day 4 - sun and moon; day 5 - birds and fish; day 6 - animals, man, and woman; day 7 - God rests. Now compare day 1 with day 4, day 2 with day 5, and day 3 with day 6.
Both begin from the same point, when God was beginning to create. They then diverge in their order of creation, so that in the first account, animals are created and then all humanity simultaneously, “male and female” (Gen 1:27), while, in the second account, the first human is created, then animals, then the woman.
One of the most common questions an atheist may try to pose to a Christian is, “where did God come from?” In other words, who created God? Or when did God begin? The question itself is actually misleading because of God's eternal nature. God didn't spontaneously appear; he's always been there.
God continues to create in God's world and in our lives. A deep awareness of God's ongoing creative work is one of the gifts people living in rural and small town contexts across this earth often carry with them.
But God's most beautiful creation is people. Our interactions with nature are interactions with people, whether the humanity within ourselves or the humanity of others.
He created people out of love for the purpose of sharing love. People were created to love God and each other. Additionally, when God created people, he gave them good work to do so that they might experience God's goodness and reflect his image in the way they care for the world and for each other.
God's first spoken commandment to humanity is, “Be fruitful and multiply.” It was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Not surprisingly then, it can found in the very first chapter of Genesis, verse twenty-seven to be exact.
Stone tools were humanity's earliest technology, invented more than 2 million years ago by Homo habilis, an early human ancestor. The simplest implements, known to their discoverers as "choppers," were sharpened stones made by smashing one stone against another.
1. Oldest Known Material. Discovered in 2001 on a sheep ranch in a part of Western Australia known as the Jack Hills, this ancient zircon crystal is the oldest known material formed on Earth. Scientists say they've dated the ancient crystal to about 4.4 billion years ago.
Made nearly two million years ago, stone tools such as this are the first known technological invention. This chopping tool and others like it are the oldest objects in the British Museum.
On the first day, God created light in the darkness. On the second, He created the sky. Dry land and plants were created on the third day. On the fourth day, God created the sun, the moon and the stars.
The initial singularity is a singularity predicted by some models of the Big Bang theory to have existed before the Big Bang. The instant immediately following the initial singularity is part of the Planck epoch, the earliest period of time in the history of our universe.
Adam was created first. It was after sometime probably while Adam was naming the animals that he noticed the animals were mated pairs. God decided he would make a mate for Adam. He caused a deep sleep to come over him. While asleep God removed a rib from Adam and created Eve. After introducing Eve to Adam.
ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.
Original sin is the Christian doctrine which says that because of the sin of Adam and Eve, original innocence is lost and all subsequent human beings are born into a state of sinfulness. The doctrine states that human beings do not commit this sin but rather contract it from the Fall of Adam and Eve (CCC: 404).
