Do You Know God?

Here are more notes I’ve taken from Genesis about Knowing God:

14)  God created living creatures for the water.

15)  God created birds that could fly above the earth.

16)  He created these on the fifth day.

17)  God created living creatures for the land.

18)  God created man in his image, in his likeness, to rule over the fish, birds, and livestock — every creature.  (That makes us special!)

19)  God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”  He was not alone.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit were with him.

20)  God created both male and female (he gives the reason later on).

21)  God blessed them and told them to be fruitful and increase in number.  Subdue the earth.  Rule over the fish, birds, and animals.  (God told them!  He spoke to them!  Can you imagine?)

22)  God gave them every seed-bearing plant and every tree that has fruit with seed in it for their food.  (He knew they would need to eat to survive.)

23)  He created these on the sixth day.

24)  The heavens, the earth, and everything on it were completed in six days!  Doesn’t that tell you how powerful God is?

Knowing God

I’ve been reading Genesis with my focus on God alone, and I’ve learned a lot about Him.  I received a request to share my notes.  Here is a start:

1)  God was there in the beginning.

2)  God created the heavens and the earth.

3)  The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters of the earth.

4)  God created the light just by speaking!

5)  God separated the light from the darkness.  He called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”  (Did you catch that?  God named the day and the night!)

6)  God created these things in the first day.

7)  God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.  He called the expanse “sky.”  (Again, God named something we see every day!)

8)  God created this on the second day.

9)  God gathered the water to one place, and let dry ground appear.  He called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters “sea.”

10)  God created vegetation on the land, seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it.  (Food for us!)

11)  God created this on the third day.

12)  God created lights in the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the sky to give light to the earth.  He made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day (sun), and the lesser light to govern the night (moon).  He also made the stars.  (He thought of everything we would need to live on the earth!)

13)  God created this on the fourth day.

**More to come!  We’re just getting started!

Oh, I also started a list of the Names of God.  So far we have:

a)  God  (Genesis 1:1)

b)  the Creator  (Genesis 1)