Day by day, God created the universe and everything in it (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30). Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1 states emphatically that this is a fundamental tradition.Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.
On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
On day 5: God created birds and fish.
On day 6: God created animals and people.
On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
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Note that according to tradition, there is only one Genesis creation-narrative, with ch.2 serving as an expansion of the brevity of ch.1, not a separate set of events (Rashi commentary, Gen. 2:8).
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The creation-narrative in Genesis (a Christian author)
God decided to rest.
well in all actuallity there were tchnically on 6 days of creation and a day of resting. so there was no eighth day of creation. When does day end, when does it begin, where does the night end, day begin.
God created the animals, and He created man.
In the Christian perception of God, he should never need to rest, thus making the seventh day an anachronism. However, the Jews wanted to know why they were required to hold the seventh day to be a day of rest. One version of the Ten Commandments says that God commanded the Israelites to respect the sabbath day because that was the day on which God rested.
There is no evidence for a literal six-day creation, and considerable scientific evidence that there could not have been a six-day creation. Even the sequence of events in the six-day creation story in Genesis chapter 1 is scientifically wrong - such as the sun and stars being created after the earth already existed.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
An overview of "day 1" reveals the establishment of the "24-hour day" [one rotation of the earth from sunset to sunset]... distinguishable by the separation of "day" and "night.""...God called the LIGHT Day, and the DARKNESS He called Night..." (Gen.1:5)The "light" God created was the first "daylight" portion of the perpetual 24-hour day.This established "time"... and the Divinely inspired "seven-day week"... the repeated seventh day of which God set aside for man to "remember creation," that could never have been remembered until the first day was made."...And the evening [darikness] and the morning [light] were the FIRST [24-hour] DAY." (same verse)
Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church was created in 1988.
On the sixth day of creation, God created land animals and finally created human beings in his own image. On the seventh day, God rested from his work of creation, blessing and sanctifying the day as a day of rest, known as the Sabbath.
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And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
well in all actuallity there were tchnically on 6 days of creation and a day of resting. so there was no eighth day of creation. When does day end, when does it begin, where does the night end, day begin.
Shabbat celebrates the seventh day of creation, the day that HaShem (The Creator) rested.
Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, originated in the creation story of the Bible, where it is said that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. This day of rest was later incorporated into Jewish law as a weekly observance to commemorate and honor this act of creation.
A careful reading of Genesis ch.1 and 2 will show that God blessed the seventh day and began creation six days before it. Tradition states that the seventh day was Shabbat (Friday eve until Saturday eve). Therefore, the Creation began on the evening entering into Sunday, one week before the seventh day of Creation.
The biblical writer used a fivefold pattern in the creation story to structure the narrative according to the days of creation. Each day describes a specific aspect of the creation process, culminating in the creation of humans on the sixth day and God resting on the seventh day.
The Catholic creation story, based on the Book of Genesis, depicts God creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh day. In contrast, the Islamic creation story, outlined in the Quran, emphasizes that Allah created the universe in six days as well but doesn't specify that He rested on the seventh day. Additionally, there are differing details in terms of the creation of Adam and Eve and their roles in each tradition's story.
God created the animals, and He created man.
Because the Christian 'day of rest' is Sunday. It stems from the creation story in the bible '...and on the seventh day, God rested...'