--- title: Creation: God the maker — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Creation: God the maker», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Bible begins with Genesis 1, where God makes the world in six days: light, sky, sea and land, plants, the sun, moon and stars, fish an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Creation: God the maker # Creation: God the maker Lesson 1 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/0/) — The Bible begins with Genesis 1, where God makes the world in six days: light, sky, sea and land, plants, the sun, moon and stars, fish and birds, animals and, last of all, people. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/1/) — After each day's work the story repeats "God saw that it was good", and on the seventh day God rests and blesses the day, which is where the weekly day of rest comes from. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/2/) — Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was made on purpose and with care, and every person, made "in God's image", has special worth. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/3/) — God gives people the job of looking after the earth, like caretakers in a borrowed house, not owners who may use everything up. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/4/) — Christians disagree about how to read the six days, as literal days or as a poem-like story, but they agree on the main message: God is the creator, and science and faith can ask different questions. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/5/) — For a child today that means treating the world as a gift (no littering, kindness to animals), resting well, and respecting every person, even someone you do not like. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/6/) — Genesis 1 tells how God made light, sky, sea, land, plants, sun, moon and stars, fish, birds, animals and people over six days. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/7/) — After each day of making, Genesis says that God saw that what he had made was good. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/8/) — Christians believe the world was made on purpose and with care, and that it is a good gift to enjoy and look after. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/9/) — Genesis 1 says God made man and woman in his own image, so Christians believe every person has special worth and deserves respect. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/10/) — People are made last, so many Christians see them as the high point of creation, made to care for the rest. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/11/) — On the seventh day God rested and blessed the day; this is the root of the weekly day of rest, the Sabbath. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/12/) — God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Genesis 1 and 2); this is called stewardship. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/14/) — Genesis 2 tells of the Garden of Eden, a beautiful garden where God put the first people to live and to work. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/15/) — Some Christians read the six days as six literal days; many read them as a poem-like story that teaches who made the world and why (disputed among Christians). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/16/) — Many Christians accept the Big Bang and evolution and see God behind them; some Christians do not (disputed). - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/18/) — Psalm 8 looks up at the moon and stars and wonders why God cares about small human beings. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/19/) — Feeling small under the night sky can lead to wonder and thankfulness rather than fear. - next →: [Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)