Sentences with phrase «christian creation account»

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The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

Many historical Christian scholars acknowledged the possibility of interpreting the creation account non-literally, including Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and C.S. Lewis.

From Chris: From the perspective of an evolutionary creationist, what meaning and value do you extract from the creation accounts in Genesis and why would they be important for the Christian faith if they can't be taken literally?

But in fact, intelligent design is mainly advocated in America by conservative Christians, who regard the account of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis as a scientific description of the origin of the world.

When you tell people you are questioning the creation accounts of Genesis 1 - 2, a lot of Christians get very angry, and some religious types will actually fire you from your job... What they don't realize is that you are simply using historical - cultural research to understand Genesis 1 - 2 the way Moses and the Israelites would have understood it.

Last week, the luxury retailer Fortnum & Mason was accused by campaign group Christian Concern of trying to «retell» the Biblical account creation on a biscuit tin by portraying two men - Adam and Steve - in the Garden of Eden.

(For example, a Christian woman once told me earnestly that even if biologists were able to demonstrate common descent to a certainty, she would still reject it for a simplistic interpretation of the Genesis creation account as a matter of faith.)

Blair omits the topic altogether, while Scanzoni and Mollenkott add only a brief postscript to their discussion, admitting that «for many Christians, the biggest barrier to accepting the possibility of homosexual unions pertains to an understanding of the creation accounts in chapters l, 2, and 5 of Genesis and in Jesus» commentary on them in Matthew, chapter 19.

3) Biblical scholarship relating the creation account of Genesis and ancient Near Eastern cosmology continues to become more accessible to the average reader, so Christian university students are in a great position to learn from Bible professors why a literal, scientific reading of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be a fundamental element of the Christian faith.

They also argue for the inclusion, not in the science curriculum but in the humanities, of the comparative study of creation accounts in the history of the human race: various scientific understandings, various understandings in the Judeo - Christian - Islamic traditions, the Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Native American, and African traditions.

She begins with an analysis of three Western creation stories — Genesis, the Enuma Elish and Plato's Timeaus — and argues that the early Christian effort to synthesize these accounts has bequeathed to us two unmanageable assumptions: that nature was originally paradisiacal and benign for human beings, and that human mortality is the product of human sin.

Although there are some Christians, such as the Creationists in the USA, who insist on the literal accuracy of the biblical account of creation, the majority of Christians would now see the stories as mythological.

Ham was a high school science teacher who found his way to creationism when his students, knowing he was a Christian, challenged him to reconcile the science in their textbooks with the account of creation given in Genesis.

With the provocative and arguably offensive title of «Creation» (originally called «Origin»), the movie not only presents how Darwin lost his remaining Christian beliefs, but also offers an account of his family life, particularly the death of his young daughter Annie.

The 7P's of Christian creation [POWER, PLAN, PURPOSE, PATTERN, PERFECT, PINNANCLE and PRESERVE] are a really helpful tool to help students think about the Genesis creation accounts (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2), and to remember the main points of the stories for the exam.