Genesis Chapters 1 & 2: The Creation

In Genesis chapters one and two we can see how God created the world in seven days. He divided light into day and night, divided the waters and created heaven, created the earth and the seas, the plants and the fruits, the sun, the moon, and the stars, the seasons, days and years, created the creatures (animals), and at last created man to domain the other species.
As said by the narrator:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion 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.” (Genesis 1:26)

In this verse we can see how God created men in relation to his image so they could rule and domain all the other living creatures. I found this very interesting since the bible is pointing out that men are superior and they should govern the world. I as a Catholic don’t agree with this since if from the beginning men were brought and created for this purpose, it explains perfectly why in modern days we kill other species and destruct their habitats as if we were the owners of everything. While reading this I couldn’t stop thinking about Ishmael since in the book Daniel Quinn also tries to explain why we humans think we are the most important species. If from the beginning God assigned everything he created a role in the world, how could he actually expect us to respect each other and every other creature that surrounds us? I strongly believe in God, but this sounds kind of unjust. Why would God want to make men superior? In fact, we are all animals in a universe trying to survive.

Then, in chapter two in the seventh day God finally rested and admired his creation.
As the narrator says,

“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:3)

I thought this part of the chapter was very intriguing since it says that God blessed the seventh day (Sunday) because it was the day his creation was done. Now I actually get why we have to go to church on Sundays and pray to him.

After this, chapter two describes how Lord God created men and the Garden of Eden. After creating all this, he decided that men needed company and shouldn’t be alone and out of one of Adam´s ribs he created women.

As stated by the narrator,

“And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23)

This was how women were created and although I find the relation between men and women very interesting I think that it is a little male chauvinist since it is extremely unfair that God created men first and similar to his image while he just took women out of men to serve as his accompany. I see this as an explanation of why we always imagine God as someone masculine and not a women.