Sentences with phrase «creation story as»

It's full of mesmerising colour, and uses innovative graphic shorthand to tell the Creation Story as Schedel saw it.

Others see the biblical creation story as perfectly consistent with the general outlines of scientific theories of evolution.

Someday you may read the creation story as the Babylonian tablets contain it, which quite possibly the author of the story of Genesis knew.

If I were not a naturalist, I still would not believe in the Genesis creation story as literal fact.

You want to teach a single religion's creation story as scientific theory, and you think that's not going down that road?

Look, first of all, at the creation story as told by various peoples.

Of course, there have always been readers of the Bible — then as now — who miss even the broadest hints and insist on reading the creation story as straightforward history.

I still give praise to the Genesis creation story as it was «down to earth» for its time as to how life formed and not altogether out of date given today's more developed creation story.

In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

«I think one of my roles as a leader here is to keep the story of who we are — our creation story as well as our evolution — alive and vivid and active,» Jordan says.

(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.

They agree in viewing the creation stories as prescientific myths with great spiritual meaning.

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The make - believe creation story is maintained as real throughout life.

Christ not only believed in the Creation story, He compared His return, when He will raise the dead (i.e. reap the earth), to the Great Flood as well as the destruction os Sodom and Gomorrah.

As has been pointed out to you countless times, science has shown that the biblical myths of creation and life are not true — they are simply stories invented to satisfy an ignorant populace.

Then it follows that the citizens and taxpayers who are Muslim, Hindu, American Indian, Scientologist, etc. should have THEIR creation stories taught as fact also.

fred, As you don't follow the OT, you don't believe the creation story or believe in the ten commandments?

The order and timing of the creation week does not match evolution and the fossil record, a global flood as described is not evident in the geologic record as would be expected, the stopped sun in Joshua's story would have caused major destruction that would be apparent in archaeology, etc..

Most biblical stories were adoptions of earlier myths and legends, such as the virgin birth, creation and Noah's flood.

Many years ago I was added to the listserve for a group of Evangelical pastors, though not a pastor myself, and one day one of them asked the group about using stories or quotes in sermons without telling their people they were using them, that is, presenting the stories as their own stories and the quotes as their own creation.

The creation story in the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of humankind as male and female, sexually differentiated and enjoined by God's grace to sustain human life through procreation.

My point is that claiming the bible story of creation to be true and denying evolution is every bit as inane as denying that microorganisms cause disease.

I also believe in God, and I respect the Bible as a work of inspiration, and a source of inspiration, but I don't believe it is necessarily historical, and I certainly don't believe its creation stories should be taken literally, since the various stories conflict with each other.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

I have been especially interested in the Creation and Fall stories in Genesis as well as the Flood Narrative.

The religious aspects of the Jesuit missions were inimical to Enlightenment philosophes, but the story of the reducciones nevertheless helped thinkers such as Montesquieu to articulate new ideals as, in Imbruglia's words, «the creation of a utopian society became the mission of European civilisation.»

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

Similarly, the Hebrew word nephesh may best be translated «breath - soul,» as is clear, for example, in the early story of man's creation: Yahweh shaped man from dust out of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, so that man became a nephesh — that is, an animated being.

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

On these facts of moral and religious experience the Hebrew took his stand; he saw the universe itself as the predestined home for their development; he told the story of cosmic creation as culminating in man; (Genesis 1:1 — 2:3.)

One might call this the soteriological captivity of creation, because it succeeds in emptying the world of its own meaning as a realm of divine governance and human involvement prior to and apart from the biblical story of salvation culminating in Christ.

The Christian God has taken up everything into Himself; all the treasures of ancient wisdom, all the splendor of creation, every good thing has been assumed into the story of the incarnate God, and every stirring towards transcendence is soon recognized by the modern mind — weary of God — as leading back towards faith.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

Jeremy Myers i also think Genesis isn't as much about the Creation of the world, as it is Israel's creatiCreation of the world, as it is Israel's creationcreation story

Of course, some people will cling to this old paradigm for as long as possible, just like we have people who belong to the Flat Earth Society, who believe the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally, and who believe the lunar landing is a hoax.

But if you see the Bible as a human product, then the Genesis stories of creation are ancient Israel's stories of creation.

The Common Creation Story offered by the sciences is an object of intense scrutiny by theologians as diverse as Gordon Kaufman, Sallie McFague, Wolfhart Pannenherg, Langdon Gilkey, Ian Barbour, Arthur Peacocke, Nancey Murphy, Robert John Russell and John Polkinghorne, to mention only the most prominent names.

Denying existence is not the same as just not being convinced by every creation story you've read.

In the story of creation recorded in the Hebrew Bible, the word for «create» is used only with God as subject.

As the canon comes down to us, the story begins with 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.»

Lets get real: Evolutionism is just as much religion as any other creation story.

But if you're going to say that, you must also believe the the Hindu creation story is just as likely, or any other you can dream up, just because you can't really prove one over the other.

In the oldest versions of Genesis that we have, the author of the first creation story used the word «Elohim» as the name for the Jewish God and in the second version the author used the name «Yahweh».

But Christianity contains more positive attitudes as well, including biblical affirmations of the human body — evident in the creation story, the concept of the incarnation and the Roman Catholic notion of the unitive purposes of sexuality.

As far as the Egyptian creation myths, since the stories predate Moses, he probably adapted the Egyptian stories for the IsraeliteAs far as the Egyptian creation myths, since the stories predate Moses, he probably adapted the Egyptian stories for the Israeliteas the Egyptian creation myths, since the stories predate Moses, he probably adapted the Egyptian stories for the Israelites.

This, along with other aids, has enabled scholars to attribute the first creation story to the so called «Elohist» source (or the Priestly source as a redactor of the Elohist source) and the second to the earlier «Yahwist» source.

What's more important to me is that such a simple pattern as light is the eventual causality of life, and it essentially happened in the same order as the procession of life in the creation story.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.