Quiz: On God, the Creator and Provider

Man was created by God upon the completion of creation. In the sequence of the visible world's formation, the Fathers often discerned a progression from the lower to the higher. In this sense, man is called the crown of God's creation. God blesses man with dominion over the visible world (Gen. 1:28). He places him not in chaos, but in a world already prepared for his habitation — a world gifted to man by God. This clarifies why man was created on the sixth and final day of creation, rather than the first. The Bible recounts man's creation in the first chapter of Genesis.