This website has thousands of HSV singles that is much easier to join due to
creation of accounts with usernames and passwords.
We may from time to time offer various features that require registration or
the creation of an account with Tubi.
Access to and use of certain additional functions and / or benefits of the Services are subject to
the creation of an account with UBISOFT (the «Account»).
This necessitates
the creation of an account with a screen name.
Not exact matches
Homeownership has been and continues to be an important driver
of wealth
creation in the US,
with owner - occupied housing
accounting for almost a quarter
of assets among US households.
Once you are done
with the
account creation, you are selected to avail all the features
of this software, making easily used.
It's impossible for me to believe that something written in the Bronze Age, by Bronze Age people
with their limited views
of the world, is the actual and literal factual
account of the
creation of the world.
The Bible
account of creation does not conflict
with scientific conclusions about the age
of the universe.
Nye like many in the science community venture into unfamiliar ground when comparing the Genesis
account of creation with evolution.
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.»
The
Creation account of Genesis is often taken as literal historical narrative, yet in reality is is a beautiful example
of ancient eastern poetry,
with many truths hidden within it.
Though many now discount the Bible and its
account of creation, it satisfactorily answers where the universe and all life originated, saying: «In the beginning God created the heavens (universe) and the earth (
with its abundance
of life).»
a) Given the Vedas
account that begins
with the
creation of matter, energy and time b) Given no other religions begins
with the
creation of matter, energy and time (and i will wilfully overlook Abrahamic religions like you overlook other religions) Therefore, this implies that only the Hindu religion is worthy
of consideration.
(2) Evolution has often been taught
with the implication that it was a rejection
of the biblical
creation account, by ignoring or dismissing the
creation stories as prescientific myths surpassed by superior modern versions.
While cosmology may mean several different things, the theologian's contribution is concerned
with «
accounts of the world as God's
creation,» and, within that broad compass, one specific enterprise especially needed in our time involves «imaginative perceptions
of how the world seems am where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii) 5 In other words.
What we do
with this difference in the two
creation accounts is, first, acknowledge it, and second, explain that they are both there because each was a part
of one
of the two or three sacred traditions put together by an editor to make up the book
of Genesis.
Similarities
of Genesis 1:24 - 25
with other
creation accounts, and how the Genesis
account is polemical against them.
The story
of creation and the story
of the fall, for example, like the
account of the last things in the Book
of Revelation, may properly be called myths, since they are concerned
with absolute beginnings and endings or
with universally predicable truths, about which no precise conceptual statements can be made and which are best expressed in pictorial language.
Not only does the completion
of creation in six days correlate
with and support the religious calendar and Sabbath observance (if the Hebrews had had a five - day work week, the
account would have read differently), but also the seventh day
of rest employs to the full the symbolic meaning
of the number seven as wholeness, plenitude, completion.
Together they form the
account of an ancient, sacred dialogue a giant conversation initiated, inspired and guided by God
with and among humanity about God, his
creation and our role in it as his partners.
The symbolic function
of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis
accounts are compared
with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth
of the primeval conquest
of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect
of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth
of the fall
of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).
The second
account just gives more details regarding the
creation of man - has nothing to do
with chronology.
The bible clearly demarks generations, along
with the number
of years people lived, to a good enough degree that a pretty clear timeline
of creation is readily derivable), The biblical
account of events is clearly off on time scales.
As usual, this neither proves nor disproves God, but it is one idea from Science that happens to mesh
with the Abrahamic
account of creation.
Likewise, wrestle as we may
with the problem
of evil, the heart
of the matter is found in the great refrain
of this Genesis story after the
account of each «day»
of creation, which says, «And God saw that it was good.»
But the Genesis
account of Creation is both scientific and in harmony
with all known archeology finds.
Fifteen percent
of those surveyed said that theology's main role
with respect to science is to «support the biblical
account of the human
creation and fall.»
Each day could be thousands
of years, the genesis
account only describes the Creators preparation
of the earth for mankind, The universe has been around for millions
of years, the earth an uninhabited waste.
Of course
creation is in complete harmony
with science, it is logical.
Or, to express it in more learned fashion, the
account of creation does not depict the event which it reports
with the actual observable features
of its occurrence.
Modern theology has been largely concerned
with reconciling competing commitments: the value
of human freedom
with obedience to divine commands; the scientific
account of the natural world
with the doctrine
of creation; the necessity
of critical inquiry
with the authority
of revelation.
There is no evidence supporting the genesis
creation account which is concordant
with the entire body
of scientific knowledge (whence the need for supernatural delivery, hibernation, etc).
Given these difficulties in interpretation in the texts that seem most appropriate, the plain descriptions
of Jesus» interaction
with women and the stylized but readily interpreted
accounts of woman's
creation in Genesis take on increased significance.54
It has affected how man understands the origin
of life (including his own) on this planet, and Christianity has had to contend
with,
account for, and reconcile its implications
with the biblical narrative
of creation and purpose as stemming from God.
In fact it contradicts itself starting in THE VERY FIRST TWO CHAPTERS
of Genesis when the order
of creation is mixed up to having only 2
of the 4 Gospel writers bothering to talk about the birth
of Jesus (and those two
accounts conflict
with each other while also providing timelines which make it IMPOSSIBLE for Jesus to have been born based on their
accounts) to 3
of the 4 Gospel writers not agreeing on what the final words
of Jesus were.
As the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the
creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit
of the visible
creation,
with everything else placed at their service, and in general,
with lower things being placed at the service
of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for food).
Process theologians see this in fundamental accord
with the biblical
accounts of creation.
This puzzle is directly related to the problem many theologians have
with Hartshorne on
account of his explicit denial
of the doctrine
of creatio ex nihilo or «
creation out
of nothing.»
Quite apart from controversies connected
with the Genesis
account of creation, historians have puzzled over the story
of 12 brothers who go into Egypt and father 12 tribes, and then under miraculous circumstances flee Egypt, wander for 40 years in the wilderness, invade Canaan, conquer the land and settle down.
Our understanding
of the unfathomable size, age and complexity
of the Universe was instrumental (along
with evolution) in dethroning the Biblical
account of creation.
These biblical stories, while not being
accounts of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection
with actuality which stories
of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the
creation story is true only if God is in fact the Creator
of the heavens and the earth and
of man in his image, and the story
of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated from God and thus actually falling short
of the glory
of his own true nature and destiny.
After the
Creation account, writes McKnight, «the entire rest
of the Bible, aiming as it will toward Jesus Christ, is about turning Eikons bent on otherness to Eikons basking in oneness
with God,
with self,
with others, and
with the world.»
But Matthew argues that 1) the
account of Eve's
creation does not emphasize Adam's need to procreate; it emphasizes his need for relationship («it is not good for the man to be alone»), 2) the concern for procreation
with this particular couple is obvious, as they are the first couple and need to populate the planet!
She follows this
account with scientific versions
of the
creation story, drawing from them a sense
of the profound interdependence
of atmospheric, aquatic and organic systems.
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.
My only quibble
with Hasker's
account would involve his statement that for process theists «the traditional doctrine
of creation ex nihilo must be abandoned.»
The
account of creation was affirmation that God created the universe
with intent, beauty, and order.
The only people who try to make these the result
of s ** between angels and women are those who misinterpret the
creation account to begin
with.
The Bible starts
with an
account of the
creation of the world, which God accomplished in six days (Gen. 2:2).
This began as a rather traditionalist right
account to compete on turf which had been left to the left,
with the framing drawing very heavily on behavioural
accounts of poverty, and on the right's long - standing (and foundational) critique
of the
creation of the welfare state as crowding out voluntary and charitable initiative.
Housing is an area where we need to stimulate construction not just to boost the economy (it
accounts for 3 %
of GDP)
with job
creation but also quite simply because we need more houses, or more accurately more homes.