The Creation Genesis 1, Moses 2, Abraham 4

You have 5 minutes to create your own world! What shape will it be?_______________________________________________ Bigger or smaller than ours?_________________________________________ Change any colors?_________________________________________________ How many moons?_________________________________________________ How long are days?________________________ Years?__________________ What kinds of seasons?______________________________________________ What types of geography?___________________________________________ Will any animals be excluded?________________________________________ What are 3 unique features? ________________________________ Anything different about the humans?_________________________________ How many Sabbath days per year?____________________________________ Would you want to do this again and again and again?___________________

Why do we need to understand the creation? “An understanding of the doctrine of creation is essential to salvation. Unless and until we gain a true view of the creation of all things we cannot hope to gain that fulness of eternal reward which otherwise would be ours.” Bruce R. McConkie (Christ and the Creation, Ensign, June 1982)

Review- Who created? Moses 1:33 Missionary cross reference: Hebrews 1:1-3 Why was the earth created? Moses 1:39

Day 1 Moses 2:2–5 Day 2 Moses 2:6–8 Day 3 Moses 2:9–13 Day 4 What was created on ______day? Day 1 Moses 2:2–5 Day 2 Moses 2:6–8   Day 3 Moses 2:9–13 Day 4 Moses 2:14–19 Day 5 Moses 2:20–23 Day 6 Moses 2:24–31

How was the earth created? “I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.” Thomas S. Monson BYU Devotional, November 2007

How was the earth created? “The Lord made a blueprint, as any great contractor will do before constructing. He drew up the plans, wrote the specifications, and presented them…Our Father called us all together as explained in the scripture, and plans were perfected now for forming an earth. …That assemblage included us all. The gods would make land, water, and atmosphere and then the animal kingdom, and give dominion over it all to man. That was the plan. … God was the Master-worker, and he created us and brought us into existence” Spencer W. Kimball (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.29-30)

What was the earth made out of?  President Brigham Young taught: “God brought forth material out of which he formed this little terra firma upon which we roam. How long had this material been in existence? Forever and forever, in some shape, in some condition” (Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1954], 100). How long is a day? “The physical Creation itself was staged through ordered periods of time. In Genesis and Moses, those periods are called days. But in the book of Abraham, each period is referred to as a time. Whether termed a day, a time, or an age, each phase was a period between two identifiable events—a division of eternity” (“The Creation,” Ensign, May 2000, 85).

Scan Moses 2:10, 12, 18, 21, 25 to see what God said after each of the first five periods of the Creation was complete. Moses 2:31 - what God said after He completed the Creation.

What do you have in common with the creator? “Create,” Dieter F. Uchtdorf (1:54)

Scripture Mastery: Genesis 1:26-27 1. A missionary is teaching a person who wants to know what God looks like. 2. A young woman has been told that gender is a matter of chance. She has begun to question if gender matters and whether it should influence any of her choices in life. 3. A young man does not like his body. He struggles with feelings of low self-worth because of his physical appearance. Use Genesis 1:26–27 to answer each question

What did Heavenly Father do after He created the physical bodies of Adam and Eve? Read the next verse…

“The Lord [brought] together Adam and Eve, his first male and first female on this earth, and performed a holy marriage ceremony to make them husband and wife. They were quite different in their makeup, with different roles to play. Hardly had he performed the ceremony than he said to them: ‘Multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion’ (Gen. 1:28)” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball [2006], 192). President Kimball

The Creation Which of God’s creations are especially beautiful to you? How do the creations bear record of God? What things has God left unfinished on the earth? What things has God left unfinished in your life?

Moses 2 Genesis 1 Abraham 4