Introduction The world was created, there is no doubt about that. However, there are conflicting arguments on how the world was created. Two of these views are the old-earth secular view and the young-earth creationist view. The old-earth view is the Nebular hypothesis; this belief is that everything began from a mass of nebular material. The view that the earth is relatively young is also the belief that the world was created by God in 6 day as mentioned in the Genesis 1.
Old-Earth Secular View The Nebular hypothesis in the old-earth secular view on the beginning of the world holds that the earth is billions of years old and that it evolved over time into what it is today. According to this view everything we know of today
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Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (CSB, 2017). This view claims God as the creator of life and the earth. It follows the belief that the world was created in 6 literal 24 hour days as mentioned in the Bible. According to this view the earth is relatively young about 6 to ten thousand years old. Ross (2015) says there are several beliefs young earth creationist’s hold one of which is that, “God directly and miraculously created ‘kinds’ of organisms that have since diversified in a limited fashion” (pg. 5). The “kinds” of organisms is discussed elsewhere in Ham’s book The New Answers: Book 3 (2009), “if two things can breed together, then they are of the same created kind” (pg. 40). According to this view God created all of the things seen on earth and earth itself by speech. It all started with “Let there be light.” And the Bible tells us there was light. The only thing God did not create just by speaking was man. He formed humans with His hands out of the dust of the ground and breathed life into their nostrils. Myers and Noebel (2015), say, “(the) all-knowing God…ordered the universe into a beautiful symphony of light, life, sound, and color” (pg.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis1:1.) God’s perfect wisdom created everything. In Genesis 1 and 2 we can see that God has loving and gentile nature when He created the earth and heavens. God created man in his image and we are the only creation that God breathed in the breath of life for human beings (Genesis 2:7). God did not do this for any of other creations but only for humans. The Bible has many scriptures that tell us how creative God is. Genesis 1;26 states “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created all of this for us to have fellowship with him.
Forty percent of the American population believe in Young Earth creationism. There are many different types of creationism. Young Earth creationism is the literal interpretation of genesis that states that the universe was created through an act of god 10,000 or fewer years ago. Whereas evolution is the theory that all life evolved from a single organism and the changes that take place in organisms. There are many famous debates over this topic as well.
Intro An account of creation is found in the book of Genesis. Chapters one through eleven tell of how and when God created the Earth, the Heavens, all forms of life, and everything else in the Universe. Genesis also tells the stories of Adam and Eve as well as all of their descendants. Genesis is part of the living Word of God, providing details of the character of God, the principles of man, and man’s relation to God.
The Bible has been at the center of many highly controversially issues over the last 2000 years. Believers and non-believers alike have been debating whether it is the true word of God, or just a collection of stories and myths. At the forefront of this debate is the issue of creation. Many Christians believe that God created the world in 7 literal, 24-hour days. Using this theory, they would say the earth is roughly 6000 years old, but there is also a minority who believe in an old earth and that the creation story in Genesis 1 should be taken figuratively. Those who believe that the creation story is written in figurative language hold a variety of different beliefs on the issue, but at the center of their argument is the statement that: “Genesis 1 should not be taken literally, and that there is no way the earth is only 6000 years old”. In order to understand both sides, the true meaning of the Biblical text must be understood.
According to myth, the earth was created in six days. Now watch out! Here comes Genesis. We'll do it for you in six minutes! Spock: Really, Dr. McCoy.
Although this theory clearly supports God’s creation of the universe, the Day-Age theory remains open minded to microevolution and gradual forms of macroevolution guided by the hand of God. The ages of creation allow for a sufficient amount of microevolution to occur. The Day-Age theory of creationism, requires and supports the creation of different and unique kinds of plants and animals. Each plant, animal, and human created by was incredibly and remains incredibly unique and complex. This fact is not contradicted by the Day-Age theory of creationism.
There are several key outputs of human society throughout history, but none are more important than humanity’s relationships with the supernatural and the uncertainty of the afterlife. Religions have served many purposes through human history, originally being used to fill in the gaps of knowledge about the natural world with supernatural explanations. These religions evolved into complex semi-political entities that have influenced many aspects of human history, by unifying large populations and connecting humans with one another across continents. Religious systems have persisted through human history because they are flexible, they accommodate for changes in political structures. According to J.R. and William H. McNeill, the most important
In Genesis, god created merely by speaking. It was god who created the heavens and earth also known as cosmos. Water was already pre-existent matter; everything else was created by god. It all began when god spoke in the darkness and said let there be light and there was light. God saw that the light was good. During the day there would be light, and the darkness would be at night. By the second and third day, god created a firmament (dome) which separated the waters from the waters. God called the firmament heaven and said that all the waters under heaven should be gathered as one allowing for dry land to appear. This created one place for the water and another place for dry land. It was the dry land that beca...
From the time of the creation of God’s Kingdom and the earth until present day in the eternal life, God has intended for His people to live as full human beings in order to live a fulfilled life, and a life of salvation and redemption through His son Jesus Christ. Through living the eternal life and living within God’s Kingdom, the anticipation of the return of Christ and the beginning of the New Heaven and the New Earth is what Christians are currently living for and anticipating. New Heaven and New Earth are both goals Christians work towards through their faith in Christ, along with the anticipation and work towards the eschatological goal as we work and live towards the future and end result, while some aspects of life will continue and some will discontinue in the New Heaven and the New Earth. While the New Heaven and New Earth is an opportunity to refresh our spirituality and redeem ourselves in a spiritual way through the work of the Holy
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 New American Standard Bible. It’s understood in Genesis 2:7 (New American Standard Bible) that life in fact was created by God. God created man from dust on the ground, breathed it, and man became a living creature. God created humans to be able to reproduce to create more life.
When God created the world “by faith is we understand that the world were framed by the word of God, so that the things which we see how did not come into being out of things which had previously appeared” (Athanasius...
Truth about creation is found only in the Bible (Ryrie 206). The first verse of the Bible Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth, is an absolute statement.
2) Scientific views This as the name suggests is the belief that life originated by a number of scientific processes and there was no input from a god of any kind at all. These theories agree on a few simple things the universe is 15 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Then... ...
For all intents and purposes, there are two views of the beginning of the universe. One of these is the creation told in chapters one and two of Genesis. Genesis confirms that God created the Heavens and the Earth on the first day of the first week of Earth’s history.
Every day God created something new and blesses it. God created nothing irrelevant or unworthy. Entirely everything he created served a purpose. Also all he had created came from nothing. The fish were undeniably produced out of the waters, and the beasts and man out of the earth; but that earth and those waters were made out of nothing. God created what is known as the world today and everything that exists on the earth. Reading Genesis 1 gives all mankind an idea of how life started and how the earth was formed to be this magnificent place. The earth is very complicated yet God could solve all of the problems and create blessings. He gave us light and darkness, day and night, water and land. He created all living creature including mankind.