What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "The order of creation in Genesis"
Answer
The creation record in Genesis outlines a precise, successive order accomplished over six literal days. God began by calling into existence the heaven, the earth, and light on the first day, followed by the atmosphere or firmament on the second day, dry land and vegetation on the third, and the appointment of the sun, moon, and stars as light-bearers on the fourth. The sequence culminated on the fifth and sixth days with the filling of the waters and air with living creatures, the creation of land animals, and finally the creation of mankind as the crowning work of the Creator.
Successive Steps of the Creation Week
»There were six days of the creation, and nine successive creative steps from “the beginning” to the finishing of the creative purpose. The first was the creation of the heaven and the earth; and the earth was without form and void, and, darkness was upon the face of the deep, while the Spirit of God brooded upon the face of the waters. The second was the creation of the light. The third was the creation of the firmament or atmosphere. The fourth was the creation of the dry land. The fifth was the creation of all vegetation.«
The First and Second Days of Creation
»On the first day of time God created the heaven and the earth. The earth thus called into existence was without form, and void; and total darkness covered the Creator’s work. Then “God said, Let there be light; and there was light.” “ And God divided the light from the darkness,” and called the one day, and other night. On the second day of time “God said, Let there be a firmament [margin, Heb., expansion] in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” The dry land had not yet appeared; consequently the earth was covered with water. As no atmosphere existed, thick vapors rested upon the the face of the water; but the atmosphere being now called into existence by the word of the Creator, causing those elements to unite which compose the air we breathe, the fogs and vapors that had rested upon the bosom of the water were borne aloft by it.«
The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Days
»And now the dry land having been formed, and the atmosphere and the light having been already created, God fills the earth with vegetable life. And God caused the earth to bring forth grass, and herbs, and trees. And at the close of the third day we are again certified that the day was composed of an evening and a morning, i.e., that it was a twenty-four-hour day. vs.13. On the fourth day God caused the sun and moon and stars to appear as light-bearers in the heavens... On the fifth day God peopled the waters with every variety of fish, and caused abundance of fowls to fly in the open firmament of heaven.«
The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Days Completed with Man
»On the fourth day of time “God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”... On the fifth day of time “God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” On the sixth day of time “God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” Thus the earth, having been fitted for the purpose, was filled with every order of living creature, while the air and waters teemed with animal existence. To complete this noble work of creation, God next provides a ruler, the representative of himself, and places all in subjection under him. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”... Last of all, God created Eve, the mother of all living. The work of the Creator was now complete.«
Mankind as the Crowning Work of Creation
»After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action. To him was given dominion over all that his eye could behold; for “God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over ...all the earth.... So God created man in His own image; ...male and female created He them.”«
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