Accounts of Creation

Syllabus tag: Kenya CBC | Grade 7 C.R.E | Strand 2.0 Creation | Sub-Strand 2.1 Accounts of Creation (6 lessons)

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:

• Narrate the biblical accounts of creation
• Discuss the similarities and differences between the two accounts of creation
• Identify attributes of God from the creation accounts
• Value God's creation by conserving the environment

Summary

Genesis opens with two accounts of creation, told from different angles: the first (Genesis 1:1–2:4a) moves through six ordered days ending in the creation of humankind, male and female together; the second (Genesis 2:4b–25) focuses more closely on the forming of the first man and woman. Reading both together reveals not a contradiction but two complementary pictures of the same event -- and specific things they reveal about God's character.