The Image of God: Each Man Makes Heaven and Earth Anew
In Genesis 1:1-2, God makes the heavens and the earth.
In Genesis 1:26-31, God makes man in his image.
Okay.
We’re not able to engage in creating a cosmos from nothing.
But here’s what we can do.
We construct the world in unique ways, each of us.
A brief spiritual exercise from Genesis 1:26-31
In Genesis 1, the Lord makes the world insofar as it is experienced by humanity, as a place he considers good and very good. It is a composition of chaos and order and more fully, in Genesis 2, God makes a Garden to demonstrate to man how, as a being in his image, to subdue the earth in a way that brings more potential out of it rather than ordering it in a stifling way (think of a garden with no bugs…super orderly but no fruit!) or leaving it to pure chaos (a field with no edible food for humans, but covered in fire ants and fleas hiding in the weeds).