God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in
Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the
Lord made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon
the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Thus He established
the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed creative work. The
first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work
of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility
to care for it. When the world was finished it was ``very good,'' declaring
the glory of God. (
Genesis 1:2;
Exodus 20:8-11;
Psalms 19:1-6;
Psalms 33:6,9;
Psalms 104;
Hebrews 11:3.
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