14 January Daily Question

What is being converted in these first chapters in the story of creation is that everything that is being created is a creation of God, that everything in a way has its own purpose in the universe. The power of God that is being conveyed perhaps is feeding into the narrative that things are created with purpose, and therefore things happen for a purpose (leading to almost a form of acceptance for any negative events that may happen to the faithful). God creates everything, he sees that it is good, so therefore everything that exists in the universe is conveyed as good. God in this first account is primarily creating things and bringing life to the world, creating things in a way that he finds fitting and also creating humans in his likeness. While humans take the center stage in the other account of creation, they don’t actually “do” anything. Humans are rather just more so a valued creation of God here and are not yet expanded on (they will obviously be in the story of Adam and Eve). While God obviously doesn’t have to “rest”, the fact that he does at the end of his work I think serves two purposes. The first is to perhaps to serve as a demonstration that life is not something that is made for constant toil and creation, that settling down for a moment and rest/relaxing holds merit and is something that should be down every now and then. The second is to behold in his own creation, to again serve as an example to humans to do the same with his creation. While he creates for six days, he rests for only one. While life should certainly have rest, it should be mainly filled with creation, but still strike a balance between the two.