In the Beginning
Where did everything come from?
God makes light, sky, sea and land, fills them with fish, birds, animals and people, calls it all very good, and rests. Told from Genesis 1 and 2, stopping before the snake.
Where did everything come from?
God makes light, sky, sea and land, fills them with fish, birds, animals and people, calls it all very good, and rests. Told from Genesis 1 and 2, stopping before the snake.
The Bible’s first two chapters: God makes light, sky, sea and land, fills them with fish, birds, animals and people, looks at all of it and calls it very good, and rests on the seventh day. Chapter 2 adds the close-up: the garden, the man naming the animals, the woman made so he won’t be alone.
A gentle first story (about 5 minutes) that stops before the snake: 4 choices and 2 ways-of-knowing stops. Kids play a brand-new fish, Adam naming the animals, and a gardener in Eden. God is shown as sparkles, never as a person.
Ages 4–8
Christians read this differently and have for a long time. You can say: the Bible is telling us who made the world and that it was made on purpose and made good. It isn’t a science book, and it doesn’t have to be one to be true about that.
Genesis 1–2, the first two chapters of the Bible. Chapter 1 tells creation in six days: light; sky; land, sea and plants; sun, moon and stars; fish and birds; animals and people. After each day God sees that it is good, and after the sixth, “very good.” On the seventh day God rests. Chapter 2 tells the same beginning close up: a garden, a man who names the animals, a woman made so he won’t be alone. Our story stops there, before the snake in chapter 3.