The Creation of Adam

news of Jesus Christ. He is the Son of God. As such, God sent his perfect child, free of sin, to die on the cross for all of humanity. Jesus’ sacrifice provided the atonement for the sins of the world. Our relationship with God was destroyed when Adam sinned in the garden, but our sin was transferred onto Christ, allowing our relationship…

the Father-Son relationship” In the garden it was as God intended, the Godhead and Adam, then with the addition of Eve, a human companion for Adam, the reflected image of the Trinity was complete. Throughout biblical history, it attests to God’s desire for his creation to “reflect both the character of God and the relationship…

In the book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, when Adam and Eve were first in the Garden of Eden, they knew not of good or evil. Their God told them to not eat from a tree that would give them insight on what is lawful and what is not. As time passed they were eventually deceived by a serpent, and went against God and became enlightened with the matter of good and evil. This knowledge was not only something that changed everything in their lives for the worse, but it set them apart from their…

This was a motif common to the A & C Movement. Theorist and critic John Ruskin was one of the A and C Movements most influential figures, he investigated the relationship between labour, society and art. Ruskin wanted individualism within artistic creation at a time when commercial production was rapidly growing and further isolating the designer of an object from its maker. William Morris an English designer, reformer and poet put Ruskin’s ideologies to work. Morris placed significant value on…

Heresy is an “opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.” In Greek, heresy or αίρεση signifies a choice, the opinion chosen and the sect holding the opinion, a choice that one personally and freely nakes, which happens to be the main controversial topic about Pelagianism. As Peter says in his second letter, “there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who…

How Manifest Destiny Change the Americas In the nineteenth century, the average American believed in the popular slogan Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that God had predestined the people of America to expand across the continent of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In the eighteenth century, the belief in Manifest Destiny no only made a way for physical expansion but also political, social, and economic aspects of the early United States as well. The…

imagines himself going back to a time before the massive war, but in order to go back far enough to avoid the misery and suffering caused by conflicts, Billy has to return back to when there was Adam and Eve which is one of the major references that Billy makes is throughout the novel. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created two perfect human beings to live in this Paradise world on earth, however; they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of…

something wrong, or an invisible entity making the Earth from the back of a turtle is open to interpretation. Whatever the story may be, the similarities and differences are unnerving, to say the least, considering the varying cultures. Most of these creation myths tend to include animals functioning as some part of society, but their purpose depends on the story. For example, "How The World Was Made" depicted animals as helpers of Maheo, the god of the story, who found land and for lack of a…

rib to be his companion in a world otherwise populated only by beasts, Eve has been read to be a woman made to be subservient to Adam. The reality is far more complicated, as we see that Eve is in fact very eager in establishing her own identity, the pursuit of which ironically contributes to her Fall. Moreover, as the woman who has such a psychological hold over Adam as to compel him to join her in consuming a Forbidden Fruit, I contend Eve’s superiority in the power dynamics between husband…

atheistic evolution (also commonly known as Darwinian evolution and naturalistic evolution) and special creation. Atheistic evolution states that there is no God and that life can and did materialize physically from already existing, non-living beginning accumulations of matter under the power of natural laws (like gravity, etc), although the beginning of those natural laws is not justified. Special creation states that God created life immediately, either from nothing or from already existing…