by Lois Ryan

Created on: January 31, 2011

Sharing the Word: Genesis-The Age of Innocence

The Old Testament covers four periods of time.  They are the Age of Innocence, the Age of Consciousness, the Age of the Patriarchs and the Age of the Prophets.  The first time period, the Age of Innocence, is the shortest time period in the Bible.  It ends in the third chapter of the Holy Bible, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.  That is not to say that this is true in the actual duration.  For example, God took six days to create the world and one day to relax and enjoy his creation.  The days may not be the twenty-four hour earth days that we are familiar with.  They may be considerably longer, such as 1,000 earth years to be the equivalent of one of God’s days.  Plus the Bible does not specify how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden before they disobeyed God.

Genesis Chapter One is the story of the earth’s creation in six days.   The things that were created each day were:

Day One - Light

Day Two - Firmament or Air Spaces

Day Three - Dry Land and Plant Life

Day Four - Sun, Moon, and Start

Day Five - Birds and Fish

Day Six - Animal Life and Man

Genesis 1:9, 11, 14, 20, 24 “And God said…” (KJV).

Genesis 1:31 “And God saw that everything he had made, and behold, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” (KJV).

All God had to do was speak and things happened.  The oceans and the dry lands appeared at God’s words.  This was the same with the grass growing and trees that started to yield its fruits.  The same goes with the stars and planets that formed in the universe and the animals and birds suddenly showed up in this world.  Everything that God wanted appeared even as he was speaking.  His creation was completed and everything was good.  Since God is bound by his word; he is all honest and truthful.  If he stated that his creation was good, then it is true.  However, he still needed to have somebody to be in charge in this new world.  Therefore, he created man.

Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have domain over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (KJV).

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of Ged created

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