The Book Of Genesis: Hebrew Bible And The Christian Old Testament

The Book of Genesis was the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Genesis 1 of the bible describes the creation of the world in accordance to the image of God. According to the Book of Genesis, the world was described to be “formless and desolate”. The Earth already had water, but was covered in complete darkness, as there was no light to begin with. God created the world in numerous days and not one day. God’s first creation was by a command. That command was, “Let there be light!”. When God said that command, light came to be, this was how God created things. God then split the light from darkness in which he called the time of light “Day” and the time of darkness “Night,” in which formed the first day, as morning …show more content…
The dome God mentioned that he created was called the “Sky”. On the third day, God commanded for the water to be below the sky. This was because God planned to make land. The land was called “Earth” by God, and the water “Sea”. God was once more pleased with his own creation. To follow up, it states that “God commanded the land for plants to be created that bears fruits and grains.”
After so, on the fourth day, God created two large lights to create time. One ruled the night, and the other day. The light that ruled the night was the “moon”, and the light that ruled the day was the “sun”. Along that day, God created the “stars”. God placed the sun, moon, and stars in the sky.
By the fifth day, God created all the animals, birds, fish, and every other creature other than the human. God did not create the humans until the sixth day. God gave a blessing to these animals to give them the ability to multiply, or reproduce. God had commanded these creatures to increase the numbers to fill up the sea and world. God even commanded the world to create varying types of