1. Why do we say in our Creed, _I_ believe? 2. In whom do we believe according to the First Article? 3. Why do we call God "the Father Almighty"? 4. How does our Catechism explain the words "Maker of heaven and earth"? 5. What are creatures? 6. In how many days did God create heaven and earth? 7. What does it mean when we say God _created_ them? 8. Why do we believe that God made everything out of nothing, merely by His word? 9. Recite Heb. 11,3. 10. How was everything when God had finished the work of creation? 11. What do we learn of God from Ps. 90,2? 12. Why is God called the almighty Father? 13. How does the creation show us that God is all-wise? 14. Which other qualities of God do we learn from His work of creation? 15. Why can and will we always trust in the almighty, all-wise, loving, and merciful God? LESSON 15. The First Article. God Has Made Me And Still Preserves Me. Which is the First Article of the Creed? _I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth._ What does this mean? _I believe that God has made me and all creatures, that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still preserves them._ 1. God is the Maker of heaven and earth. I believe that God made all creatures, all things in heaven and earth. He also created _man._ About the creation of man we read in the Holy Scriptures: _"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. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God, created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."_ Gen. 1,26-28. _"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."_ Gen. 2,7. There is a _great difference_ between the creation of man and the creation of all other visible things. God, so to say, took especial care about this last of all His wonderful works. He did not merely say: Let there be a man, but God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as it were, _deliberated_ and _planned_ beforehand how to make man. God then formed man, that is, his body, _out of the dust of the ground,_ and _breathed the breath of life,_ his soul, into his nostrils, his nose, and so man became a living soul.--And what is more, God created man _in His own image, after His likeness._ As God is Lord and Master over all things and governs them, so He gave to man the power to govern all things on earth; He gave him _dominion_ over all the creatures on earth, to be Lord over this world. God made man in His own image.