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Now, I want to quickly cover the 7th day and that’s in chapter 2, so let’s pick it up from there.

Thus, the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

(Gen 2: 1-3)

On the 7th day God had finished his entire work of creation both in the heavens and on the earth. then he rested.  The Greek word “rested” just means he stopped working.  Don’t think of this in the way you might mean when you have a rest.  So, don’t be thinking of a bed or a hammock, or a couch with a remote control for the TV.  It just means he stopped working.  Then it tells us that he blessed the seventh day and set it apart.  Sanctified, set apart from other days. So that’s the first creation story, as told in the bible. 

In summary, this passage, simply says God created the heavens and the earth in three days, then in the next three he populated it, including the creation of Humanity, and then he rested.  One question this passage raises in the mind of a believer is can a Christian read all this and still maintain a scientific world view? I personally believe. The overarching view of science I believes still leaves a huge intellectual space for God.  Because science does not reveal the why, it only suggests and hypothesis the how. The scientific perspective does not reveal a cause.  The media would have you believe particularly in western Europe that the whole scientific world had an atheistic world view.  But less than 50% of science graduates worldwide think this way. Science tells us a lot it can’t ever tell us why we are here Scientific knowledge can attempt to explain how we are here, but never why are we here.  The real big question facing the human race is why where human beings created in the first place. But the why is not a scientific question. I believe the bible teaches us that God created us in his own image in order to make us free moral agents. 

I’d like to come to the end of this opening section of Genesis (1:1 – 2:3) by pointing out some of the why’s that I believe Genesis chapter 1 teaches us.  I believe the reason why God sovereignly created the heavens and the earth was to express his personality as a creator and to demonstrate that everything is under his control. The bible teaches that God created everything by his Word, because his spoken words are the expression of his personality. The bible says, He spoke, and it came to be. The psalmist explains, “by the word of the Lord the heaven were made and the host of them by the breadth of His mouth. He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it held fast”. (Ps 33)  God created life by His word, and we are told that   God who sovereignly gives life, also redeems life, and he does so by the application of His will through His spoken Word.  He changes darkness to light, chaos to created order, even death to life.  In order to demonstrate that God is the thought and the source of all life. That is really important, because if God is the source of all life who better knows how to direct our lives than the one who created it.  So maybe we should go to him when we need to understand the meaning of life.  We should turn to him when we need help to know how he can help us live this one life He has given us. Therefore, is it not logical to believe that if we believe that He is the one who created us in the first place then he is also the one who can re-create us. So, for new life and answers how to handle your own life go seek the creator of life.