Deluge myths

Before the Americas was found by European explorers, many groups had flourished and lived on the land for many years. Most notably were the Mayan and Aztec people who had created massive civilizations. They had their own cities, languages, writing, and their own religious beliefs. They believed that time was cyclical, and there was a creation, destruction, and rebirth. The most important piece of history left by their civilizations is their creation stories. The Mayans created the Popol Vuh…

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…

The Bible was written with a Hebrew worldview. Because of this, the Hebrew worldview largely affects the worldview of many Christians today; however, it certainly has aspects that did not transfer into today’s society. Many of the ideas concerning meaning and origins crossed into today’s society thanks to the Bible, while other elements of life are 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…

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…

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 throughout the world. There are Prophets, Pastors, and Bishops whom travel the world teaching…

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ….” (King James Version, Genesis 1:1). The Bible clearly 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…