CREATION OF LAND ANIMALS AND HUMANS

On the sixth day, the final day of His creative work, God creates land animals and humans. Every creature was created from the earth “after his kind.” The wording indicates that God speaks His instruction to the earth and the animals appear out of the earth. God immediately pronounces His actions good.

God then turns His attention to the creation of man, the object around which the rest of creation was centered. Man was to be given dominion over the earth and every creature in it. But there is more; let’s look at the following scripture.

Genesis 1:26-27 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Notice that God said “Let us” make man “in our image.” This is a direct reference to the Trinity.

It is also significant to note that both man and woman were created in the image of God. They too were told to multiply and fill the earth and exercise dominion over the other creatures on land, in air and in sea. They were informed that all the herbs and fruits were given to both man and the animals for food. There were no meat eaters on earth at this time.

Genesis 1:29–30 “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”

This time God pronounces His work as “very good.”

I think it is important to note that God emphasizes the truth of six literal days of creation at the giving of the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 20:9–11 “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

There is a wonderful book called, The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan Wood that provides a wonderful presentation as to how the creation reflects the triunity of God. I think the excerpts below will add to this discussion about creation and inspire one with awe concerning our Creator and His creation.

First, Mr. Wood declares that the universe consists of three things—space, matter and time. He goes on to explain that “each one of these elemental things of the physical universe is threefold.”

• “It is length, breadth, and height, in one Space.”
• “It is energy, motion, and phenomena, in one Substance.”
• “It is past, present, and future, in one Time.”

“If God is Three in One, each one of the three is God, and each one is the whole of God.”

The last quote I’ll use is as follows:

“This universe about us is vast beyond our comprehension. New universes of stars beyond this universe are floating into our ken.

The cause of it must be at least as great.

This universe, from the island universes quintillions of miles away to the electrons whirling in the invisible atom, is one immeasurably articulated, rationally working fabric.

The cause of it all must be at least as rational as that.

This universe contains personal beings, who think, who love, who hate, who hope, who fear, who choose, who determine.

The cause of such beings, of a universe which contains such beings, must be at least as personal they.

The equation of the universe is clear. A vast, rational, personal cause of the universe = God.”

He goes into much more detail in the book, but that’s enough to make you go WOW! We truly serve an awesome God.