The Resurrection Of Jesus: The Big Bang Theory

Through source criticism it is clear that there are inconsistencies with the full belief in the accuracy of text, especially reflecting upon how old these sources are and how ‘credible’ they are. Through the credibility of text, understanding the time period in which the accounts in scripture are written and the historical accuracy of these encounters proves challenging (Morreall, 2012). A majority of encounters were written after they physically took place, a prime example of this is the Resurrection of Jesus: it became a significant important part of Christian doctrines, specifically the Nicene Creed (Morreall, 2012). Belief in religion causes people to have a lack of trust in science, making them hold on to religious practices in spite …show more content…
Many religious individuals have a creational story in which they feel is how the universe was created, yet again these stories have no evidence to support it occurs; however, there is scientific proof that the universe was create from the Big Bang. “The Big Bang theory successfully describes how expansion and cooling of this unimaginably intense mixture…could have led to the present universe of stars and galaxies…explains several aspects of today’s universe with impressive accuracy (Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, & Voit, 2014). The fact that this theory is “successful” proves that there is significant research and support for this theory, which is the complete opposite of religious creational stories. Human evolution is also a key contradiction of many with religious beliefs. In studying the Abrahamic traditions specifically, the belief is that Adam was the first human to be created and based on two creational stories there are two examples in which explains how he occurred; however, it fails to realize that humans account for only a small period od existence on Earth and that we evolved from earlier Homo species (Lehman,