|Chapter 6: CREATION Seventh-day Adventists Believe... God is
Creator of all things, and has revealed in Scripture the
authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord
made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon the
earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Thus He
established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed
creative work. 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. --Fundamental Beliefs, 6 The Bible account is simple. At
the creative command of God, the "`heaven and the earth, the
sea, and all that is in them'" (Ex. 20:11) appeared instantly. A
mere six days saw the change from "without form, and void" to a
lush planet teeming with fully mature creatures and plant forms.
Our planet was adorned with clear, pure, bright colors, shapes,
and fragrance