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Genesis 1 -revised Time began when God created everything out of nothing. This occurred about 14 thousand million years ago in the form of a huge fireball of radiation. Thus God created light and everything else is related to it. This was his first period of creation. The handiwork of God can be found in everything. His spirit reaches across the Universe. Most of the original radiation became matter, both bright and dark. God designed matter in such a way that it would first form into tiny particles and then into galaxies of stars, some with their own planets, such as the Earth. That was his second time of creation and God was pleased with what he saw. God made the Earth to move round the Sun and spin around on its axis in such a way that there would be Day and that there would be Night. He made the Sun to light the Earth by day and he made the Moon to light the Earth by night. He also set the Earth at an angle to the Sun to create the seasons of the year. That was his third period of creation and God was pleased with what he saw. Then God caused part of the surface of the Earth to be covered by water, which he called “Sea” and the rest he called “Land”. This was his fourth day of creation and God was pleased with what he had done. Then he began to join some of the tiny particles of matter together in such a way that they could make copies of themselves, grow larger and eventually form both plants and animals. This was so successful that the land and the sea were filled with all manner of living things, both large and small. This was his fifth day of creation and God was pleased with what he had done. God’s greatest desire was to create beings in his own likeness: each should have their own spirit as well and their own mind and body. When the time was right, he created Man and Woman. He named the man, Adam, and the woman, Eve. God set them in a beautiful garden and began to speak to them. He said “Be fruitful, and multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. When God had finished his creation he rested. That was on the seventh day, which he blessed and which he sanctified as a day of rest for ever. And that is how the Universe was created. Peter Grayson Published in the December05/January 06 edition of the Church Magazine
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