People of all ages have read portions of the Bible at some time in their life. It could have been through church Bible study, Sunday morning worship, or for daily meditation. However, a large part of the Bible still remains a mystery for us seeing that we constantly question the Bible along with h...

The Creation StoriesDid the creation of the earth and life begin by itself? Or did God create them? In the beginning, civilization started to question who created earth. There were many different views. In Genesis, Jinasena, and Buddha have their own thinking. There were some differences as wel...

Comparison of Creation Myths It is in the nature of humans to wonder about the unknown and search for answers. At the foundation of nearly every culture is a creation myth that explains how the wonders of the earth came to be. These myths have an immense influence on people's frame of reference. Th...

The Creation Stories Did the creation of the earth and life begin by itself? Or did God create them? In the beginning, civilization started to question who created earth. There were many different views. In Genesis, Jinasena, and Buddha have their own thinking. There were some differences...

If your grandparents have ever sat you down and told you an ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, or a story relating to the aspects of the ancient world, you probably have just heard a myth. Myths are all around us and they are sometimes hard to distinguish from truth. Many people belie...

Comparing and Contrasting the Creation AccountsComing from a family with a Christian lineage as far as the eye can see, its no wonder that my mouth widened just a bit when I read through the Enuma Elish for the first time. How could this "Ancient Babylonian Story" be so similar to the parable of the...

What Are They Angry About? by Tyler Booman If you're planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person calle...

The creation of human beings has numerous myths and stories that were initially wrote in history. These are stories that tell how the first race of mankind came into being and the different things that the Gods had to encounter during their Creations. When we think of creation, we think of how thi...

How did life on earth begin? Was it simply a matter of chance or does order predispose an intelligent planner? Is man a mechanism of a higher order? What explanation does scientific information support? Attempts to answer these and other related questions have proposed many theories and beliefs....

Creation vs. EvolutionI believe God is the Creator of life. It says in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth." I think God is the Creator if you just look around and the order and sophisticated. Everything is too dang complex for it to come about by random chance. The S...

When we think of this world and its origins, we as human tend to think in one of two ways religiously or scientifically. Those of us who think religiously obviously go with our religious affiliations. For example, Christians tend to think about the story of creationism in the seven-day time frame ...

The last line of the Lord's prayer is, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." It is a key line in the Christian religion. The intention of this is reminding one of where we came from and to thank Jesus Christ for giving his life to remove humanitie's sin. There are many key poi...

The book of Genesis in the Hebraic Bible begins the creation story of the world, rather than specifically of the nation of Israel or the Israeli people. Unlike the Exodus narrative, which often takes up the bulk of Biblical and historical scriptural criticism of the Hebraic Bible, the fi...

Since the dawn of man, humans have striven to explain the many mysteries of the universe, and to justify our existence in it. Throughout this journey of self-understanding, numerous standpoints on human existence have evolved and merged into a complex, abstract manifestation called religion. Howev...

The Heresy of Akhenaten: The Creation and Doctrine of the First Monotheism By Peter C. Kyle April 17, 2000 The history of the Pharaohs of Egypt has been but an endless line of king lists with few pharaohs of note and even fewer with any individual personality, as far as we can glea...

?Peeling back the layers in Genesis 1:1-2:4a, provides a much deeper insight to the story of creation in the Old Testament. It provides the essence of understanding and grasping the theological message behind the passage. In order to grasp the Priestly writers conception behind the story, one must l...

What is the nature of God? Belief in God shapes the way people live their lives. Belief in God gives people something to hope for, someone to believe in, no matter what their situation in life might be. The early Aztecs believed that only their rain god Tlaloc could relieve their farms from seve...

The story of creation is one known and believed by many, and though has not been proven factual, is harmoniously and readily repetitive throughout various cultures. While the many stories of creation do contain discrepancies, they are alike in numerous ways. In view of the fact that the stories cann...

The Garden of Eden, the story of the beginning of time. There are many different forms and interpretations of the tale. Many cultures have there own understanding of what happened, which are all quite intriguing. All of the contexts agree on the basic points of the story but differ on minor aspects....

(A) Introduction Pentateuch is considered to be the most important part in the Old Testament. It recorded the account of creation, the fall of man, the Law Code as well as the experience of the Ancient Israel. Among them Genesis is the first book recorded incidents happened from the creation of ...

Has "God", or religion, created man, or has man in his search for meaning beyond "what is", created religion and God(s)?" This is a tricky question to answer. As if, has the "chicken" came first or the "egg". It is evident that "the fact of creation...

" ...The beauty of the dream had vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." Chapter 5, page 56. A work conceived in beauty, an ultimate goal in mind, To create a human being, from bodies souls left behind. Misguided good intentions, a man determined to succeed...

"These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created" (Genesis 2:4) . This is the last line of the first creation story. Genesis then goes into another creation story, completely different from the first. The second story deals with a whole new set of questions and answe...

Comparison EssayThere are many different ways to explain the beginning and creation. Genesis and Edith Hamilton's "Mythology," are two of many literary works you can find. Both show how characters were created and formed. They give detailed understanding and examples of creation. In the Bible, Genes...

In reading the book Genesis, it is hard to discern what to believe. Since there are two stories of creation, I do not know which one is correct or if either is correct because they differ in such great aspects. To make them match, you must bend the meaning of the words or look at the original tr...