This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective. Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 56 of Real Cool History for kids.

This is an extra special episode because I created it for my three little grandsons,

Owen, Zach, and Gabriel, who are some of the most amazing gifts God has ever given me. And for each of you, my young friends listening to me, thank you for coming along with me on this special episode.

This episode is extra special to me because I am going to tell you why I say, with the help of Jesus, be the best you ever in every episode.

In reality, this is the beautiful story of how much God loves you told from the viewpoint of God's word. The beginning of this

story starts way back in time, way back, way, way, way back in the Garden of Eden. God had finished

all of his creation work at this point. He had brought order to the chaos by separating light and dark and creating day and night.

To warm us in the day, yet shelter us from its rays, God had placed the sun 93 million miles from the earth,

and he had set the moon in the Earth's gravitational orbit

to reflect the sun's glow during the night. He had separated land and water and had made trees

and grass and flowers grow in the soil. He had carefully designed to support them. He had filled the sky

and the water and the land with creatures of all kinds, from the lumbering hippo to the slimy

octopus to the tiny mouse. He had created the perfect home for everything.

Then, God created man.

Humans have always been God's special project right from the start.

You see, everything else in creation was created by God's thought and his words.

But to create mankind, he used his hands to form them. And then he

breathed his breath to create their eternal soul within them. All of the natural and logical

laws that came into being from God's mind were specifically designed to support

human life here on this planet. The planet he created as our home. He knew what humans were

going to need to live and grow and thrive, so he established that special habitat for us before he formed the first human.

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