The first two chapters of the Book of Genesis open with the story of how the world had been built. However, these two chapters have told two different stories. The first story, which explains the creation of the whole world, starts in Chapter 1 up to Chapter 2:3. It talks about God first created the earth and heavens, then he created the light, sky, land, water, vegetation, and different living creatures, include human beings, in six days. And he rested on the seventh day from all the work that…
I felt it was interesting how the stories had so much in common, but, so much difference. In both stories the similarities were different, but the same in many ways. In the Iroquois creation story there was a Skyworld which is similar to the Garden of Eden in the Genesis story. In the Skyworld there was a special tree which no one was to touch. In the Garden of Eden there was a tree of knowledge that God told Adam and Eve not to eat of it or they would surely die. In Skyworld, the pregnant…
drastically different. The basic idea of origin follows what is found in the Bible. The difference is the context in which it is read. Looking at the creation story in Hebraic context sheds an entirely new light on creation. Instead of taking the story at face value, we find underlying tones of satire throughout the text. Not only is the story of creation being told, but it is also demeaning other…
There are many different religions around the world, and each have a different view on how the world came to be. Most stories are similar, but can also have big differences. The main point in the bibles, is that some powerful being in some form, created the Earth and everything on it. The bible of the Iroquois and Judeo-Christian are both different, but similar in some way or another. They both talk about a supreme being and how it created the Earth, but the being is completely different in the…
Just seeing how history fits together was extremely interesting because I had always looked at history as two time lines a biblical time line and a secular time line and I could never figure out just how they fit together. This includes how a lot of the genesis stories started in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia and that that time is the same in both the Hebrew and secular time lines, for some reason I could never figure out of these “two” timelines fit together. For some reason today it…
Creation Myth: Loving is Living A wise man once said, “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” Love is, in fact, the honey, as it has been blessed into creation by the flowers which bloom on this earth. These flowers blossom and grow tall as they provide nectar for bees, creating the sweet deliciousness honey is today. This concept is very much similar to the day a man – no, a Saint – came to this world, showing humans what emotion, what power lies deep within us: love. Years and years ago…
In the beginning there was a vast planet of stone, nothing grew and nothing lived there. There was only one thing there, a god who had the power to do anything. He lived there for many years and was bored of the nothingness, so he decided to create things that would entertain him. He first created plants to grow on the planet and provide many things for what he had planned. He then created animals, innocent animals, and hostile animals for balance. While he was creating these animals, he created…
How did humans get on earth and who created the universe? The Christianity culture and their mythology beliefs on how the Earth and humans came about is intriguing because there’s an entire book written on the beginning of time, known as “The Bible”. This is a massive book with a plethora of information and versions that reference the Christianity myth. The Bible contains sixty-six books divided up into two sections, the Old Testament and The New Testament. The Christianity culture is lived on…
identifies who created the world and how it was formed. No one knows when the earth was created or what it could have looked like. There are many ideas of what it was like based on what is written in the Bible. Christians believe the Bible, the story of creation, and that God created the world in seven literal days. However, evolutionists continue to believe that there is evidence that the universe and the earth took billions of years to form. Also, that life on the planet has come about by the…
Native American Creation Myths states many of the Native American creations stories are unknown on were they originated since many were passed through oral tradition such as the Wintu tribe of California, the Cherokee of Oklahoma, and the Seminoles of Florida tribes. The Wintu tribe describes their creation of the world to begin with a void and the first of the Native Americans had to capabilities to metamorphize and create the world around them. Similar to the Native Americans creation myths,…