The document summarizes the seven days of creation according to Genesis, with light, sky, land/seas, sun/moon/stars, sea and flying creatures, land animals and humans being created on days 1 through 6. It notes that humans were created in God's image, different from animals. God breathed life into humans, setting them apart. As stewards of creation, humans should care for the land and environment sustainably to support all people now and in the future, with a focus on helping the vulnerable, not acting greedily, and sharing the earth's resources equitably.
The document summarizes the seven days of creation according to Genesis, with light, sky, land/seas, sun/moon/stars, sea and flying creatures, land animals and humans being created on days 1 through 6. It notes that humans were created in God's image, different from animals. God breathed life into humans, setting them apart. As stewards of creation, humans should care for the land and environment sustainably to support all people now and in the future, with a focus on helping the vulnerable, not acting greedily, and sharing the earth's resources equitably.
The document summarizes the seven days of creation according to Genesis, with light, sky, land/seas, sun/moon/stars, sea and flying creatures, land animals and humans being created on days 1 through 6. It notes that humans were created in God's image, different from animals. God breathed life into humans, setting them apart. As stewards of creation, humans should care for the land and environment sustainably to support all people now and in the future, with a focus on helping the vulnerable, not acting greedily, and sharing the earth's resources equitably.
Name : Eunice Mae Tumanda DATE : September 9, 2021
Course : 1 – BSCE
1.) What were created starting from day 1-7?
▪︎The seven days of creation : The first day – light was created The second day – the sky was created The third day – dry land, seas, plants and trees were created The fourth day – the Sun, Moon and Stars were created The fifth day – creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly were created The sixth day – animals that live on the land and finally humans, made in the image of God were created. The seventh day – God finished his work of creation and rested, making the seventh day a special holy day.
2.) Why is man different from the rest of God’s creation?
In Genesis 1, God created by speaking the physical world into existence.
However, in Genesis 2 we find God humanity through a very different means: breath. The term breath in Hebrew can also be translated Spirit. God does not merely speak humanity into existence, but actually forms the human and breathes life into his nostrils. God, with great intentionality, acts. God breathes God’s spirit into humanity in a way that separates us from animals and God’s other creation, which God speaks into existence. God’s unique role for humanity also sets us apart from the rest of creation. God gave humanity a role in God’s creation. We are the caretakers of God’s world. According to Psalm 8:3-9, God placed humanity slightly lower than God’s self in the created world. Another way in which humanity is unique among God’s creation is that God determined humans had the need for relationship (Genesis 2:18-22). God in God’s self is relational being. God exist as the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God created humanity in God’s image, therefore God created humanity as relational beings as God is relational. Humanity was created first to relate to God and secondly to relate to one another.
3.) How should man show his responsibilities as steward of God’s creation?
Great stewardship expects regard for how creation was intended to
function. God order to Adam in Genesis 2:15 to work the nursery and care for it preceded the fall. Our necessity to really focus on creation isn’t a consequence of transgression. God realized that utilizing creation – working the land – additionally necessities that we care for the creation. Developing vegetables and yield, for instance, removes supplements from soil. To save soil’s capacity to create, we should deal with the dirt and put supplements back. The exercise are indivisible. Assuming we need creation to support us, we need to really focus on creation. Assuming we need creation to take care of us, we need to steward creation fittingly. Great stewardship is mindful of the proprietor and the proprietor’s goals. By definition, stewardship of God’s creation should be mindful of the things that are near the core of God: the vagrant, the widow, the helpless and mistreated. God’s stewards of the earth should carefully guarantee it bears sufficient natural product for all to eat, clean air for all to inhale, pure water for all to drink, and so on, for momentum and people in the future. Greed, be it individual or group, is in opposition to God’s will and the request for creation. Creation’s assets should be shared, utilized and created as per equity and good cause. This is an issue of preventing the injustice of storing assets or treating our air, land and water as dumps where we can discard squander without result or responsibility. The Scriptures are clear: God remains with the people who are persecuted, with the helpless, the vagrants and widows (Ps. 9, Jas. 1:27). As Christians, our stewardship should develop the earth with the expectation that everything humankind can appreciate the benefit creation’s abundance.