Creation/1

1.  In the beginning it was God that made the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1

2.  The earth and all life in it were made by God in six literal days, not millions of years.  Gen. 1:31.

3.  God made the seventh day a Sabbath for a memorial of his creatorship.  Gen. 2:1-3.

4.  God made Adam from the earth while woman was made from part of man’s body.  Gen. 2:7; 2:21-23.

5.  God made animals by calling them into existence instantaneously; this is fiat creation.  Gen. 1:24, 31.

6.  Creation was made by the Godhead.  God said let ‘us’ make man.  ‘Us’ denotes plurality.  Gen. 1:26.

7.  The word ‘creator’ in Ecclesiastes 12:1, and ‘maker’ in Job 35:10 are in the plural.  Ecc. 12:1; Job 35:10.

8.  We know that God the Father is creator. Gen. 2:4.

9.  We know that Jesus was also the creator. John 1:3, 10.

10. We also know that the Spirit of God was involved in creation when we read that the Spirit ‘moved’ upon the face of the waters. Gen. 1:2.