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Creation Story
Genesis 1:1 - 2:3
Super-section	Primeval History
Contrasts	Genealogy of Noah
Form	parallel, 2-parts
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Three principal themes emerge from the great creation account with which Genesis opens. The first is the total and uncompromised power of God as creator; the second, the intrinsic order and balance of the created world; and the third, humankind’s key position in the scheme of creation. - Everett Fox ^[1]

The above quotation provides a good example of what theologians have long gleaned from the first book of the Bible — God has sovereignly created and ordered the universe. This ordering applies as much to morality as it does to nature, to man's behavior as it does to his constitution. God has arranged and regulated both the natural and ethical spheres of His creation.

Outline

Creating	Filling
Summary (1:1,2) 1. Light (1:3-5)	4. Sun/Moon/Star (14-19)
2. Water/Sky (6-8)	5. Fish/Bird (20-23)
3. Land (9-13)	6. Beasts/Man (24-31)
	7. Rest (2:1-3)

• in paraphrase