God Created Heaven and Earth – Genesis Chapter 1
by Sabrina Dawkins
God is the source of light, and the light is good; both literally and figuratively it must be separated from the darkness, which is bad.
Earth is within a dome, and there is water below—oceans, rivers, lakes, seas—and also water above the dome. The firmament above is called heaven, and this is where rain comes from. Genesis 7:11-12 explains that during the flood, God opened heaven’s windows, and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
In the beginning, the first food sources created were vegetables and fruit, which carried their seeds inside; and when those seeds fell to the ground, they planted new vegetation. Think of John 12:24, where Christ says that a corn of wheat is alone until it dies, and in so doing, produces a lot of fruit.
The sun, moon, and stars provide light to the earth. The stronger light of the sun is for the day, and the weaker light of the moon is for the night. Heliocentrism is false: The sun was made to give light to the earth.
Fish and birds were created before land beasts. The Bible emphasizes that these living creatures bring forth offspring after their own kind—there is no crossbreeding.
Man was made after the likeness of God and is more valuable than the other living creatures, the fish, birds, and land beasts. In Matthew 10:31 Christ told his disciples that they were more valuable than many sparrows. And in Matthew 12:12 Christ said that a man is more valuable than a sheep. Man is to rule over the earth and the other living creatures.
In the beginning man and woman were given only seed-bearing plants and fruit as “meat.” And the other creatures of the air and earth were given plants for food. This completed the sixth day. God saw what he had created, and “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).