Atheism Dualism

From Genesis 1.1-2.4a it can be discerned that God is the creator of all. He created the world and its inhabitants from a vast nothingness. The text reflects upon who God is and what His capabilities are through the act of creation. The verses allow that God is communicating with us. It is communicated what Gods will is for man and gives us a history of our beginnings. From the data provided in the verses, scientists can conclude as to the how and why the order of creation came about. For example, light was first, land second, and then plants. Light and land are needed for plats to survive. The passages allude to the fact that He and He

God’s continuing work can be seen in the incarnation of Christ and his redemptive work. “Christ is the visible image of the invisible God…God created the things we can see and the things we cannot see…everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else and he holds all creation together” (Colossians 1:16, 17). Not only is Jesus the exact representation of God, but he is God himself who worked with the Father in creating the world – the sustainer of everything (Hebrews 1:3). “Because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan” (Ephesians 1:11). This means that, “his will may be disobeyed, but his ultimate purpose cannot be frustrated, for he overrules the disobedience in his creatures in such a way that it sub serves his purpose” (Akin 2014, 235). Here we can clearly see God’s sovereignty and that we can rest in the truth that Jesus is Lord and God is in control. God’s involvement in our lives goes even deeper and shows us that he is personal and wants relationships with his creation. He not only spoke with Old Testament figures such as Adam, Abraham, Isaac and Moses, he held relationships with them through guidance and even discipline (Genesis 1:28, 3:8, 12:1, 26:5; Exodus 11, 19, 20, 33:11). Amos 4:13 says that God reveals His thoughts to man. We often

The book of genesis in the bible is where its considered to be the noted beginning of the world. The article “the bible is fiction: A Collection of Evidence” written by Daniel Miessler shows that there are those who feel otherwise. The book of genesis’s flood story is said to have been a copycat of the Epic of

In Genesis, the first book of The Bible the Christian and Jewish creation story is told. God spoke and his Word was done. He made the heavens and the earth. He made light and drove away the dark. On the earth he created the waters and lands and man and beast.

Many people see their lives as divided pieces that are separated with little connection to one another. This can be considered a dangerous perspective because it violates the whole purpose of God’s created order. We find ourselves in a sticky situation because we tend to divide our lives into different categories, rather than focusing on the creation has one whole piece. In a dualistic view, we would consider prayer, church and worship to be sacred activities, while work, education, and politics would been seen as merely secular.

Although God reveals Himself both through nature and through Divine Revelation, it is abundantly clear that our will is inherently twisted by sin and, therefore, we need Divine Revelation to be the most important, most clear. The Holy Spirit helps us to understand Scripture as literal and historic.

Genesis 1:1- Reveals that this is the beginning and God is the Creator of all.

The existence of God is challenged in great detail when the Problem of Evil is discussed. A theist is someone who believes in God and in theism there is a coherent concept of God. A theist believes that God is an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being. All these things describe God as all powerful, all knowing and all good/perfect being. Atheism is the belief that God does not exist and they believe that those beliefs of a theist cannot all be true at the same time.

Atheism: a disbelief or a lack of belief in God. Sadly, this is becoming a more

I see God working through the history of mankind and God working throughout the history of Israel as well. I believe one can see that God is at work in the church as well. He is working to fulfill God 's plans that has been in place before the foundation of the world. God’s plan as the Apostle Paul says is to redeem his people in Ephesians 1:6-7. The Apostle Paul said, “to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (Ephesians 1:6‭-‬7 ESV). It is Genesis chapter 3 that we see the broken state of mankind, but God offers grace to mankind when He tells Eve her child (Jesus) would crush the serpent (Satan).‬

For more than two thousand years, The Old Testament has had a superficial influence on beliefs, practices, literature, and art of the Jewish and Christian religious communities. The Old Testament is comprised of biblical writers’ accounts of God’s interactions with the world, especially with the people of Israel.

The Bible begins with a story of creation, but not just one, two creations stories are existent. In each story God is there to bring creation and give understanding in the differences between divine and unholy. The bible’s first two chapters are the creation stories found in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. From Gods spirit came creation and from his word came the creation on earth. In each story there are major differences but they also have great similarities.

God’s role in the Bible is characterized in several different ways, with dramatically competing attributes. He takes on many functions and, as literary characters are, he is dynamic and changes over time. The portrayal of God is unique in separate books throughout the Bible. This flexibility of role and character is exemplified by the discrepancy in the depiction of God in the book of Genesis in comparison to the depiction of God in the book of Job. On the larger scale, God creates with intention in Genesis in contrast to destroying without reason in Job. However, as the scale gets smaller, God’s creative authority can be seen in both books, yet this creative authority is manifested in entirely distinctive manners. In Genesis, God as

From the opening of Scripture God’s power is on display as he creates ex nihilo, but before such an awesome display can even be considered, one must contemplate that God is. Numerous creeds throughout history have begun with the affirmation, “I believe in God.” The existence of God is seen in the intricate designs and the complexity of the universe, but this alone cannot fully establish the existence of the God described and revealed to us in Scripture. The biblical God is more than just a creator of a deistic universe; his power extends beyond.

People in our society today who have the atheist point of view on religion, which is the belief that there is no god, are going against the so-called norms of society, and therefor are seen as deviant. Deviance is just an idea. Society determines what is deviant by the ideas they hold of what should be the norm. Atheism is seen as a negative deviance, or below the norm. They have a status that is placed on them in society. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they believe in evil, although that is how it is sometimes viewed from people in society who have a specific religion or faith. Atheism, which is not a new idea, has been evolving in our society, and is the reason for problems leading to debate and court cases, and for