The Christian Cosmology and the Cosmology of Hinduism

The Christian Cosmology and the Cosmology of Hinduism

The Christian cosmology, or the Creation story, can be found in the

first chapter of the book of Genesis from the Bible. The story

describes how God created the world in six days and rested on the

seventh day. On the first day, the Bible says that God created

Heaven and the Earth. The world was dark so God then created light,

which He separated from the dark. He called the light ‘day’ and the

dark ‘night’. On the second day He said ‘Let there be an expanse

between the waters to separate water form water’. God separated one

expanse of water from the other and he named the space that was left

between the ‘Sky’.

On the third day God commanded the ‘water under the sky to be gathered

to one place, and let dry ground appear’. God named the dry ground

that formed ‘Land’ and the water that had gathered he named the ‘Sea’.

Next he commanded that the land produce vegetation that bears fruit

and seeds. God created the Sun and the Moon and the Stars on the

fourth day. He said ‘Let there be an expanse of sky to separate the

day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and

days and years’. God made the Sun, ‘the greater light to govern the

day’, and the moon, ‘the lesser light to govern the night’. God also

created the stars to give light to the Earth.

On the fifth day God created the sea creatures and birds and then

blessed them and said ‘Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the

water in the seas and let the birds increase on the Earth’. The sixth

day, Gods last day of work, God created animals to live on dry land

and then he created man and woman in his own image to rule over all of

the animals in the sea, in the air, and on the land. He told both man

and woman to ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the Earth and