Genesis 1:1-2:3
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.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 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.
The great drama of the beginning of all things starts with God. The language is simple but vivid. It evokes the wonder and richness of creation from formlessness to teeming life.
More than this, it offers us the key to understanding ourselves and the world around us. The story, styled and shaped to a conscious pattern makes it clear that 1. the origin of the world and of life was no accident; there is c Creator - god; 2. God made everything there is; 3. all that God made was good; 4. of all God's marvelous creation, people are special; they alone are made in God's likeness and give charge over everything. 5. GOd's six 'days' of creative activity. following by a 'day' of rest sets the pattern for working life.
Creation is described as taking place in six days. Eight times God speaks, and there is something new.
This is not a chronological account. The 'separations' of the first three days create the space which God them fills. We are not told when creation took place. Nor are we given details as to how God brought the earth and life into being - nor how long it all took. The storyteller does not share the preoccupations of a scientific age. He is concerned with more important things.
Why?
God created this world in six days and created human beings in God's image. This is different from other living lives.
The seventh day is Holy day for rest, so it makes us working life in the world.
There is not any scientific description about the procession of creation but God is the creator, who makes everything done and gives us life.
God says then everything is done.
混沌中建立秩序。
我們是受造物卻不屬於這個世界。
生與生命,各從其類,提了七次。
先分開,然後豐盛,豐盛中仍然有秩序。所以要我們先分開來,再給豐盛。自然的平衡系統不是自己形成,而是神的手托住。
我們的想法也要神來改造。早7日月星辰是要人作記號,會去紀念神的作為,恩典。
神賜給人當受造物的王的身分,王的責任是好好管理所有生物,資源。這次疫情是人破壞這些資源,我們需要去思考 。
安息是神滿意的日子。安息日是神的第七天,卻是人的第一天。神讓人先安息再工作。在神的創造中人才有祝福。
How?
God is Holy, God is my way, my hope, and my shepherd. What my life's mission if honor God's name.
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