God created the universe and everything in it out of nothing. He created in an orderly process over 6 days. On each day he created different aspects of the physical world and filled it. He created humans, both physical and spiritual, on the 6th day as the pinnacle of his creation, giving them free will and reason. God created everything to be good and for the purpose of humans to know and love him freely.

1. THE CREATION
LESSON #2
THE BEGINNING OF
HUMAN LIFE

2. GENESIS 1:1,27
 God created everything out of nothing. (matter,
laws, space, life, etc.)
 We can create things of existing matter, but
we can not bring anything to existence from
nothing.
 We only can make things of things that already
exist, But only God can create out of nothing
 Everything we can see, or can not see is created
by God.

3. GOD CREATED BOTH MATTER AND SPIRIT
 MATTER is easy to understand
 We can see it, feel it, and touched it, taste it,
measure it, we can weight it.
 THE SPIRIT is a little more difficult to
understand, but is just as real
 We can't see spiritual things,
 We CAN NOT weight them, touch them, or measure
them.
 They do not take space of all,
 God create beings that are pure spirit, these
beings are Angels.
 Our human soul is Spirit, too. Each of us possess
an immortal soul.
 Humans are both matter and Spirit

4. GOD CREATE EVERYTHING IN
ORDER AND HARMONY
 God Create everything in order
 We did not created the world and his laws: GOD
did!
 HE made every single Law that we know: the laws
of Physics, the laws, the law of Gravity, and all
laws of the universe, etc.
 Scientist did not made the Laws; they just
discovered them. The laws were already there in
existence.
 God sustains the existence and life of
everything that He has made.
 If God not continues to hold the creation in
existence, it would stop existing.
 God has a Plan for His Creation, and He directs
it according with the Laws that He made.

5. FIRST ACCOUNT OF CREATION
1st Day God Created Light. “Let there
be light” God saw that the light was
good and he separted the light from
darkness. Gen 1,3-4
2nd Day “So God made the ceiling and
separated the waters below it from
the water above and called sky. Gen 1,7-8
3rd Day let the waters below be gather
together in one place and Let Dry Land
appear. God called the waters gather
together Seas, and dry land: EARTH.
God said, “let the earth produce
vegetation, seed-bearing plants, and
trees producing fruit.. Gen 1, 9-12
4th Day God made two great lights, the
greater light to govern the day and the
smaller light to govern the night and God
made the stars as well. God placed them in
the sky to give light on earth and to
separate the light from the darkness. Gen 1,
14-18
5th Day God said; Let the water teem with
abundance of living creatures, and let birds
fly the sky. God create great monsters of
the sea, and every winger bird. Gen. 1, 20-23
6th God said, let the earth produce living
animals, creatures that move along the
ground. God create the wild animals. Let us
made man in our image and likeness
Gen 1,24- 26
7th By the seventh day the work, God has
done, was completed and he RESTED on the
seventh Day from all the work.

6.  There is an order in the Universe. Sometime we call the Order of this:
“Universe Design.”
 God create the universe in order and harmony with his laws.
 God first made places or spaces where things are going to go.
 He made simple things first; then the more complex, or complicated things:
Day 1 Light & Darkness
1st God made this space, and later he fill it
with the sun, the moon, and starts
Day 4
Starts, firmament, sun, moon
to reflect and differentiate the
light from the darkness
Day 2 Sky & Water
Intentionally, He prepare these places for
creatures, that have special characteristics,
very different from creatures, living on
earth only.
Day 5
Fish and Birds
He add fish to the seas and birds on
the sky. creatures that can live in
the water, or fly in the sky
Day 3 Earth
In earth, soon He put trees, flowers in
order to sustain life of all living creatures
Day 6
Animals y el hombre
Then He add animals on earth.
And finally he created man.
God made everything, it was needed, to live in the planet earth.

7.  God is above all things, and at the same time God is present in
everything he has made.
 God is not Created; He created everything; thus why He is above
everything.
 The intelligence of God is expressed in his creatures,
 and all God’s Beauty and power are reflected in his creation
 The Creation in completely depend on God for his existence and
his goodness

8. to show us his love and goodness, and to share
his divine life with us.
THE REASON FOR CREATING THE WORLD:
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR US!!!

9. THE CREATION WAS FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS
 The creation reflects the wisdom of God,
His goodness, His beauty and His
perfection.
 Everything created in the creation, was
prepared for the human beings to use
and enjoy

10. ALL GOD’S CREATION IS GOOD
 God saw all that he had made… and it was very GOOD
 It is very important to know that everything created by God is
good.
 Some people cannot see that the world is Good
 also some, do not realized that the human being is Good. The essence
of the human is good.
 The life itself is Good, even the most insignificant things to our eyes.

11. THE HUMANS ARE THE SUMMIT OF
GOD’S CREATION

12. “THE SUMMIT OF GOD’S CREATION”
“THE HUMAN BEINGS”
 God’s Greatest works of Love are human beings.
 Man and woman are the “summit” of God’s
Creation.
 Summit means the highest point
 What make human beings the most special of
God’s creation is that we are made in His images
and likeness.
 We are like God because we can KNOW and LOVE
 Only humans are capable of knowing and understanding
themselves, their thoughts, feelings and motivation.
 Only humans can know and love God and others. When we love
others, we share his Divine life.

13. GOD GIVES HUMANS 2 SPECIAL POWERS:
1) FREE WILL Power to Choose to love
2) REASON or INTELLECT Power of Knowledge
 We know things with our Intellect,
so our minds helps us to know what is True.
 We use our REASON to know God, ourselves, others
and to know the True of God.
 Our special power to choose to love is our FREE WILL
 Our WILL is free, we can Freely CHOOSE
 To LOVE or Not to Love
 To do Good or Bad
 To Act or Not to Act
 To help others or Not
 To Comfort others or Not

14. FREE WILL
 God loves US freely, and he chose to
create the world to share in his love and
goodness with us.
 God wants that his creatures love him
freely, too.
 Thus why God gave us the ability to
CHOOSE
 God created the human being with FREE
WILL: so we can freely choose to Love
Him.
 For this we were created: to freely choose
God and do His WILL.

15. HE INTENDED FOR
THEM
TO LIVE IN
FRIENDSHIP AND
HAPPINESS WITH
HIM
 God created man and woman in his images and likeness
and He made them friends of himself.
 He intended for them to live in friendship and
happiness with Him in Earth, knowing and loving Him
 And they then would be take to heaven, where they will
be happy with Him for ever

16. Next Lesson #3
THE CREATION
Stewards of Creation