Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness (Genesis 1:26).

 

What greater honor could there possibly be than to be created in the image of God? Man is the crown of God's creation. Man is the one to most reflect His nature...

       Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind:

       cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.
 

       And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind,...

       And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

       And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day (Genesis 1:22-23).
 

 

The very...

       Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures,

       and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
 

       And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves,...

       Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night,

       and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

       and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens...