Not exact matches
= > There is no necessity for the flood
story to be anything more than a massive collection
of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil,
life and death all in accordance with the plan
of creation for the salvation
of souls.
Given that I accept the evolutionary nature
of the
creation of life, I don't believe literally in the Adam and Eve
story, in the «Tree
of Knowledge» or in the concept
of original sin.
The Book
of Bokonon has a whole bunch
of cool tid bits to
live by AND a
creation story and since I'm a Bokononist, you have to take me seriously, now will you wait here why I go touch my feet with another bokononist, its a holy ritual.
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.
And here is where the Church's great communal
story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility
of the «many members
of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that
story, to guide each individual member into paths, into
life genres, that harmonize with the great melody
of God's redeeming work in His
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.
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life formed and not altogether out
of date given today's more developed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.
But regarding the
creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two different
creation narratives) regarding the order
of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order
of the appearance
of particular forms
of life, etc..
A book that is like your own larger - than -
life Advent Calendar, opening up to 25 wondrous
stories that tell the family tree
of Jesus, from
Creation to His Coming.
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.
For in
creation, in the call
of Israel, in the
life and work
of Christ, and in the pouring out
of the Holy Spirit on the church we find the great defining events
of all histories and the
story around which we must in our turn orient our
lives.
In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the
creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern
of his own little
story into the great
story which explains not only his own little
life but how things are.
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.
This was crucial, especially in relation to the Genesis account
of Creation, the
story of the
life, death, resurrection and ascension
of Jesus in the Gospels and the New Testament accounts in which the hope
of the consummation
of the Kingdom
of God in the future was expressed.
These are not some secretly coded, multilayered, cosmic writings, but
living stories of God's loving interaction with
creation.»
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless
of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need
of any partners but we the
creation is in need
of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws
of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the
life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a
story that I was talking with one
of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law
of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws
of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside
of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence
of breaking the law
of the land but we do not see the punishment
of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures
of hereafter....
Together with its companions, this psalm helps us to see that the whole
story of human
life «is the
story of a supernal, everlasting
creation and a cosmic redemption,
of God's own artistry and God's own liberation
of his world from dullness and shame, from immorality and brutality, from destruction and decay»
Christianity cherishes
story, not in the sense
of a fictitious tale, but rather in a view
of life which is whole, with a beginning (
creation), a middle (the incarnation and crucifixion), and an ending (the resurrection).
It was the
life of Jesus as realized in the community
of his followers which led inevitably to the
creation of the
story — as inevitably as it led to the
creation of the church.
The real purpose
of myth (e.g. the
creation stories) is not to give an account
of what actually happened in the past, or what may happen in the future (e.g. another ice age), but to convey a particular understanding
of human
life.
Somehow the biblical
story of creation that saw all
of life, including physical reality, as blessed by God in
creation and pronounced good had been forgotten.
science has everything to do with it... as it advances, it has the annoying tendancy to contradict the
creation stories... which calls into question «the word
of god»... which threatens the livelihood
of all who make their
living selling god.
People
living to near a 1000 years old, giants,
creation stories, talking snakes, angels making out with women, sea monsters, people being turned into salt, human sacrifice as a good thing,... Compared to that some
of the Greek myths actually look realistic.
In other words, these biblical
stories, which are not self - conscious literary
creations but genuine emergents from the experience
of a religious community — these
stories are attempts to express an understanding
of the relation in which God actually stands to human
life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.
In the
creation story, in the promise to Noah, in Yahweh's pledge to Moses at Sinai, in Jeremiah's prospects for a new covenant written on the heart, and in accounts
of the
life, death, and resurrection
of Jesus, God is always portrayed as promising everlasting loyalty.
Thus I should say that if the
story of Jesus»
life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that
story would not have been adequately or truly told or that
life was a part
of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event through which God, the Creator and the Ruler
of all nature as well as the Lord
of history, was entering into man's
life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming
of the Spirit, and the
creation of the community.
Of course science has a different story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public educatio
Of course science has a different
story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age
of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public educatio
of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the
creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public educatio
of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public education.
Michael You're right, there were no eyewitnesses to the
creation story, but we can witness for ourselves the processes
of evolution,
of star formation, and a host
of others that form the scientific view
of how the universe and
life happened.
The promises
of the
creation story continue to operate in the
lives of the children
of Israel.
In it he found the great myths
of the
creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full
of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human
stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts
of the New Testament — «He who would save his
life must lose it».
A few things come to mind: it's temporal, over against the promise
of eternal
life; it serves a purpose in personal sanctification and in the larger scheme — the big
story that God is orchestrating; and, it's part
of the fallen
creation and points us to the missing wholeness and beauty we know is lacking in our experience.
She shares her fresh, vibrant culinary
creations on her blog, along with
stories of organic farming and overall sustainable
living.
In one
Life Science lesson, the book says that «
Creation stories give an holistic image
of the origins
of the earth, plants, animals and human beings».
Tiwi Islands A
story told by the Tiwi people describes the mythological
creation of Bathurst and Melville islands off Australia's northern coastline, where they
live.
In the discussions
of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old - fashioned
creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex
life - forms — humans in particular.
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But the real
life story of Mary Shelley — and the
creation of her immortal monster — is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.
It may have been the intent
of the creators
of «
Creation» to humanize Darwin, and remove the God - killer reputation from the Darwin family name and bring to
life instead, some relatively unknown facts about him through the eyes
of both his wife and children — a compelling
story in its own right.
Next up is Looking Into the Past (4:41), in which Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat discuss the extensive research that went into the
creation of Saving Private Ryan, including the real -
life stories of the Niland and Sullivan brothers from which the
story of the film heavily draws.
With better production value and more talented actors, Alex & Emma would have had a chance to be much better, as the high - concept
story lends well to intriguing developments in both
stories (reportedly based on the
creation of Dostoyevsky's «The Gambler»), the fictionalized and the «real -
life.»
A cornucopia
of wonderful
stories, beloved characters, inspired
creations, all linger in some postgame purgatory, now free
of the toys - to -
life mantle that once imbibed them with delightful animation, but not yet able to move on.
In telling three parallel
stories, Jonze and Kaufman encompass each
of Kaufman's (and subsequently our) «eureka» moments, plus the entire scope
of life on the planet,
of Darwin's revelations about species (including a not - very - subtle glimpse
of the food chain), and
of the necessity for two voices to reconstruct a dial tone — each apparent discursion resolving itself in the primacy
of passion in its multifoliate expressions: sex, ambition, obsession, and at the root
of it all,
creation.
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A behind - the - scenes look at the
life of author A.A. Milne and the
creation of the Winnie the Pooh
stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne.
Jene's personal
story is interlaced with her
creation of a radical new piece about pain, pleasure and the female body, in which she daringly exposes herself (both figuratively and literally) in front
of a
live audience.
The behind the scenes
story of the
life of AA Milne and the
creation of the Winnie the Pooh
stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Rebel in the Rye will tell the
story of the
creation of the author's classic 1951 semi-autobiographical novel and will be the first time the writer's
life has been explored on film.
The film, which is a behind - the - scenes look at the
life of author A.A. Milne and the
creation of the Winnie the Pooh
stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne, will be released in the US on October 13.
In the Society's most prestigious category, the Buried Treasure, the nominees are: DAVE MADE A MAZE, a unique adventure film about a frustrated artist and his
creation; the compelling documentary THE DEATH AND
LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, about an icon of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian directo
OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, about an icon
of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian directo
of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a
story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian directo
of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams
of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian directo
of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian director.
SYNOPSIS: A behind - the - scenes look at the
life of author A.A. Milne and the
creation of the Winnie the Pooh
stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne.
Useful lesson exploring some
of the issues concerning religious
stories about the
Creation of the world with a particular emphasis upon how important
life is.