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First of all; Creation according to the Bible
Genesis the first book of the Bible explains the creation of the world and mankind thus:
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Creation according
to the Bible
In order to
describe this creation according to the Bible, we are going to ask a normal
layman called Don how he does understand creation according to his religious
beliefs.
Okay Don, we are
trying to understand the people what they think about creation, so we would
like to ask you how you understand creation according to your own religious
beliefs?
Don answer
I am a Roman
Catholic born and baptized therefore I believe in creation according to the
Bible. You know the Bible is supposed to be the word of God, or at least God’s revelations
through the prophets; therefore I believe that God created the world in seven
days at it is said in the Bible, even if I might have to allow that a day in
the Bible might not be one day of twenty four hours as we know it today?
Don can you
describe us creation itself please.
As you know; in the
beginning God started by creating heaven and earth, at is said that the earth
was a formless void and God created them. I know that the Bible might describe
that better and make more sense but this is how I see it.
There was darkness
over the water on the earth and God said; let there be light and there was
light, and God saw that the light was good and divided light from darkness and
he called the light day and the darkness night. God also divides the water of
the earth and the sky. This is the first day of creation.
After the first day
of God’s creation in the Bible, God continues to create the rest of everything
else in next four days as we know them and then the sixth day God creates man.
Here Don stopped as
if he had said everything that there was to say, so we had to ask Don again.
Don please can you continue to describe the creation of man please.
And Don said
Now the creation of
man is a bit strange, because there are two descriptions in the Bible, the
first description says that God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the
likeness of ourselves, and then he said let them be masters of everything we
have created. Now you listen carefully what the bible says next, because this
is a quote that I am quoting from the Bible, Quote: God created man in the
image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he
created them. End of quote.
Then God blessed them, saying to them, ‘be
fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be the masters of everything;
this is more or less what God said to them. Of course this is not all because
there is more to say about man creation, which will be written here-under.
Please note that there is some difference how man was created.
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The second description of the creation of
man
When Don finished telling us about the
first creation of man, he stopped talking and was wondering whether he should
continue, but we encouraged him to continue, so he said:
Look he said, I wonder which one of these
two descriptions is right that is why I don’t know how to go on; anyhow let me
tell you this second description of how man was created, you see to me and
perhaps to other people also it might seem that it has been added later on, so
let me say how I understand it.
In the Bible it says that at the beginning,
there was no wild bush or any wild plant growing, because Yahweh God had not
sent rain on earth, nor man to till the soil: I think that it is strange that
God needed man to till the soil and for this reason God created man, however
let me continue this second creation of man.
In those times, water flowed out of the
ground and watered the surface of the soil, so we should imagine that the soil
was wet all the time, now here I would like to quote what the Bible says;
Quote; Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of
life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. End of quote.
Then Yahweh God made a garden with all
sorts of plants including the tree of life and the tree of knowledge and put
the man he had made in the garden, God also let the man know that he was the
master of everything.
And still there is another
creation going:
Here Don sighed and said, strange as it may
seem this is different from the first creation of man, because in the first
creation Yahweh God made man and woman together, but here they are created in a
different way.
Now the man being master of everything gave
names to all cattle, birds and wild animals, but no helper was found for him.
Here the bible says that, Yahweh God made
the man fall into a deep sleep, He took a rib from the man and made that rib
into a woman; that is why we sometime hear say when man describe woman; this
one at last is bones of my bones and flesh of my flash! And we call her woman
because she was taken from man.
This is how the Bible explains
creation and the creation of mankind.
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Now that we have described creation and the
creation of mankind according to the Bible with the help of Don; we are going
to move on and describe some other religions about how those religions describe
creation, so that we would be able to compare the difference.
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