Sentences with phrase «other creation stories»

I often find it puzzling how the creationists tend to focus almost exclusively on Judeo - Christian perspective, when there are so many other creation stories throughout the world and in history.

I would hazard a guess that you think other creation stories are fanciful and silly while believing yours is «fact».

Do they even mention any other creation story?

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

Genesis, along with every other creation story from every culture on the planet, tells a story in terms that that culture's people could understand to explain how life began.

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The story centers mostly around the creation of Indominus Rex, a hybrid dinosaur made up of the DNA of T. rex and several other undisclosed creatures.

Just wondering, have you ever considered the possibility that Genesis is a creation story, just like so many other cultures have their own creation stories?

What i mean by this is that if u read the creation story in the bible, there is no mention that god created the solar system with the sun in the center, with the other planets, with us in the milky way galaxy, and all the other billions of galaxies.

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.

Of course, most of the Holy Bible is plagiarism from other belief systems — everything from the story of creation to the great flood was taken from other cultures and religions.

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.

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».

Even if one were to set aside an overly literal reading of the creation story and reject the assumption that intelligent design and evolution are always mutually exclusive, other questions would remain.

There was only one story of creation in the Bible when I read it — it was called Genesis — Where in the Bible is this «other story» of creation?

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.

All Nye is saying is, the future successful development of America and the world depends on people who understand the distinction, and who can relate to and interact with the natural world scientifically and objectively, without being constrained by belief in the creation story or any other explanation of the world not supported by facts and evidence.

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.

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.

Of course, if you just want to say «Goddidit» without any expectation of ever understanding how he possibly could have did it then why not give equal credence to the universe being conjured up my magical pixies, or any of the other, less popular, creation creation stories.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

The other insists that the six - day story of creation in Genesis is fact and Jesus will descend format the sky to create the kingdom of God on Earth.

We see it in the context of a long story of human interaction with the other processes of creation.

The Scriptures have room for two different creation stories on the first two pages and for others in the Wisdom literature, in Job 38 - 39, and elsewhere.

You are ware that your Christian bible borrowed the virgin birth, the resurrection, the story of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, Adam & Eve, and the creation story from other cultures that came long before Christianity, right?

Have you noticed that different religions that were never exposed to each other teach the same lessons, tell the «same» creation story??? No?

This made me think the other day of the story of a group of scientists, 9 PhD - s from Harvard, Yale, etc., who have formed the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas.

On the other hand, the bible makes no mention of them at all and shows no awareness of prehistory in the slightest (hence the magical creation stories).

The threefold division into body, soul, and spirit, apparent in the New Testament, seems to carry back into the Old as well, for one can easily assume that it is met with in the creation stories, to speak of no other.

Unless you have really delved deeply into other religions, and I mean as deeply as you claim others must delve into your belief before they can understand, then any and all creation stories must be considered serious contenders in a belief of a supernatural cause for everything.

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....

The first and last word, ranging in the Bible from the majestic symbolism of the Genesis story of creation to other great imagery in the book of Revelation, is that man is a spiritual creature, made in the divine likeness, the child of God and intended by God for eternity.

It is surely the case that the overemphasis on redemption to the neglect of creation needs to be redressed: moreover, there is much in the common creation story that calls us to a profound appreciation of the wonders of our being and the being of all other creatures.

Marissa van Eck, I'm no expert on creation stories, but the salient differentiator for me between Genesis and the Sumerian (and others) is the air time given to polytheism.

Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

Concert in an Egg, in regards to Genesis 1:27, which was written by the Priestly Source, stating the first man and woman were created simultaneously, whereas the Genesis 2 creation story, written by the Yahwist, which is the older of the two creation stories, has Eve formed from Adam's rib, there are other early Jewish myths that provide an explanation, i.e., that Eve was not the first woman Yahweh provided for Adam.

This requires what Paul Tillich calls «deliteralization» — in other words, moving beyond the symbolic stories (such as the creation myth and Jonah) to discover the glowing, self - authenticating truths - for - living which are visible only when one escapes from wooden literalism.

We recognize, of course, the relatively late emergence in the Old Testament of a positively and precisely articulated belief in Yahweh's universal creation, and that it is not, indeed, until the time of Second Isaiah that such a belief is taken for granted.24 On the other hand, the J story of creation in Gen. 2 reflects an early if imprecise creation faith25 while the eighth - century prophets clearly stand upon a thoroughly practical though untheoretical belief in Yahweh's creative function.

Other important differences indicate that the second story is not simply a magnified and more detailed account of the creation of man already reported in Genesis 1.

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.

You said in regard to God has animals preying on each other, for food., «FWIW, the creation story suggests that was the way things were, and Revelation suggests that's the way things will be.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

The failure to appreciate that genre calibration is responsible for much of the tension in the evolution discussion... To observe the similarities between the creation and flood stories and the literature of the ancient Near East, and to insist that all of those other writings are clearly a-historical while Genesis is somehow presenting history — this is not a strong position of faith, but rather a weak one, where Scripture must conform to one's expectations.»

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.

An ominpotent God; a trinity; virgin birth; catastrophic floods; Messiah; Creation story; Tree of Knowledge etc. etc. — all were used by others in previous versions.

The story of Creation (Genesis 1 and 2), the Vision of the Messianic Reign (Isaiah 11, Rev. 21 and 22) and other apocalyptic visions belong to the same category.

Their conversation with show host Krista Tippett covers (among other topics) science, religion, creation stories, and the much - sought Theory of Everything.

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This fourth installment is a complete reboot, returning to the web - slinger's creation story, and Garfield, more than any other factor, contributes to the sense of a bleaker vision along the lines of «The Dark Knight.»

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Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this 11 - minute and 26 - second piece focuses on Spielberg and the creation of the Shoah Foundation, a group committed to archiving the stories of Holocaust survivors and others connected to those events.