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God’s work of creation is recorded in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. God is the Almighty Creator who brought everything into existence from nothing. For six days, He created the heavens and the earth by His word, formed man and woman in His own image, and designated the seventh day—the [[Sabbath]]—as a memorial of the Creator.

==The Creators: God the Father and God the Mother==

===Elohim===

The Creator is introduced in the very first book of the [[Bible]], [[Genesis]].

===The Image of the Creator: Male and Female===

{{quote5 |내용= Then '''God [Elohim]''' said, “Let us make man in '''our''' image, in '''our''' likeness . . .” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; '''male and female''' he created them.|출처=[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A26%E2%80%9327&version=NIV Genesis 1:26–27]}}

===The Six-Day Creation===

<small>{{참고|Six-Day Creation|l1=|설명=}}</small>

The Creator made the world through His words for six days. On the first day, He created light and separated it from darkness, calling the light “day” and the darkness “night.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A3-5&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:3–5|quote= }}</ref> On the second day, He made the expanse (the firmament, referring to the atmosphere) among the waters, divided the waters into upper and lower parts, and called the expanse “sky.” The water was divided into the water above (clouds) and the water below.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A6-8&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:6–8|quote= }}</ref> On the third day, God gathered the waters below into one place, causing dry land to appear. He called the dry land “land” and the gathered waters “seas.” On this day, He also made plants—grass, seed-bearing vegetation, and fruit-bearing trees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A9-13&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:9–13|quote= }}</ref> On the fourth day, He made the two great lights; the sun to govern the day and the moon to govern the night. These celestial bodies also marked seasons, days, and years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A14-19&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:14–19|quote= }}</ref> He also created the stars to shine upon the earth. On the fifth day, God created fish to fill the seas and birds to fill the sky, commanding them to multiply and thrive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A20-23&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:20–23|quote= }}</ref> On the sixth day, God created all land animals, and finally, human beings. At this time, the Creator said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” Following this, He created man in the image of God the Father and woman in the image of God the Mother.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A24-31&version=NIV |title=Genesis 1:24–31|quote= }}</ref>

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===Creation of the Universe and the Invisible World===

{{quote5 |내용=The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.|출처=[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2017%3A24%E2%80%9325&version=NIV Acts 17:24–25]}}

==The Creator Came as a Man==

===Jesus Christ===

The Almighty Creator, who made the heavens and the earth by His words, was born into this world as a man 2,000 years ago to save mankind. That man is [[Jesus Christ]].<ref name=":1" />

{{quote5 |내용='''In the beginning was the Word''', and the Word was with God, and '''the Word was God'''. . . . He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God . . . '''The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us'''. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.|출처=[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A1%E2%80%9314&version=NIV John 1:1–14]}}

==Spiritual Creation==

{{quote5 |내용=The Creator’s work of creation does not end with the six-day Creation. Jesus said that after God rested on the sixth day, He continued to work.

Jesus said to them, '''“My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working'''.”|출처=[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%205%3A17&version=NIV John 5:17]}}

The principle of the Creator’s spiritual creation can be understood through the love between [[Adam]] and [[Eve]]. When God created them in the beginning, He formed Adam from the dust of the ground and made Eve from Adam’s rib. Because of this, Adam referred to Eve as “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” and loved her as his own body.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A22-24&version=NIV |title=Genesis 2:22–24 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> The blood Adam shed and the pain he endured when his rib was taken were expressions of his love for Eve. If God had created Eve from dust instead of from Adam’s rib, Adam would not have called her “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” They would not have been seen as one body, and their love would have faded quickly.