Step Twelve—God’s Creation

What does the Bible say about earth’s origins? “God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day. God established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of the work He performed and completed during six literal days that combined with the institution of Sabbath constituted the same unit of time that we today call a week. The first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished, it was “very good,” declaring the glory of God.”—Seventh-day Adventists Believe, p. 79JTL12 1.3