The Bible : God And The Earth

The biblical metanarrative touches the storyline of the main book, the Bible, from the beginning from Genesis to the end of Revelation. Throughout the bible there are many stories that have a message and come across to Christians that relate to their life. The bible is one book with many events that tells one big story. There are five acts of the biblical metanarrative consists of which are, Act I: The God of Creation, Act II: Sin Enters the World, Act III: God Covenants with Israel, Act IV: Jesus and the New Covenant, and Act V: The Fellowship of believers. Each of these Acts have stories about the life of Jesus that has a meaning Christians relate to.

In Genesis one and 2, it provides a full understanding of God’s creations and wisdom of human nature because it is free from evil. God created everything from nothing; to be perfect from his perspective. Human nature is revealed from Genesis one with God creating the Earth and the Heavens and creating the man of his likeness. The Bible explains how God created the man named Adam from the dust and was placed in the Eden’s Garden (Genesis 2:7). Adam helped God to take care of the land and all his creation. The Bible explains, Humanity was created to work and serve, keep the garden (Genesis 2:15). Subsequently, Eve was created; “God had created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Adam and Eve would help God because He wanted them to multiply the Earth by taking care of his creations (Hiles & Smith, 2014). God is the sovereign ruler which he created humanity as how he should have wanted. The Bible explains about human nature that God created everything to be distinct from animals and all His creation. Humankind is able to show on our nature because we are capable of reasoning. God created all differently and we were all born naked and pure as Adam and Eve were. God created in his own image that why we all look different; we are unique in His eyes. Also, God created us to be good because we are born innocent of all evil and loving God.

Nationalism is a literary genre that gained great popularity in the United States during the late nineteenth century. Naturalism is also the philosophical worldview, significantly influenced by the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin. As believed by naturalists, family, spiritual, and environmental background chose the character and fate of a person. They look for explanations for the behavior of humans in natural science and were skeptical of religion and free will. I do not agree with principles of naturalism, for the Bible tells me that humans have free will and that the world did not happen randomly.

Most certainly all theologians and readers of the Bible interpret Genesis' story of the creation of Earth's first human couple, Adam and Eve, as one of comedy-turned-tragedy, being that their blissful lives were shattered when Satan tempted Eve with the promise of knowledge by eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the one tree in the garden that God designated as untouchable. However, Genesis does not fill-in the missing background information as to the reasons why man and woman came to be the first rational, mortal creations of God's divinity. Moreover, most believers in the Bible do not know the specific similarities and differences regarding the two humans' characteristics, and how their relationship impact each other as

In Genesis one and two, it provides a full understanding of God’s creations and wisdom of human nature because it is free from evil. Human nature is revealed from Genesis one with God creating the Earth and the Heavens and creating the man of his likeness. The Bible explains how God created Adam, from dust and was placed in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:7). The Bible explains humanity was created to work and serve (Genesis 2:15). Subsequently, Eve was created; “God had created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Adam and Eve would help God because He wanted them to multiply the Earth by taking care of all of his creation (Hiles & Smith, 2014). God is the sovereign ruler, he created humanity as how he should have wanted. The Bible explains about human nature that God created everything to be distinct from animals and all of His creation. God created us in his own image, which is why we all look different; we are unique in His eyes. Also, God created us to be good because we are born innocent of all evil and loving of God. In addition, we were all born pure as Adam and Eve were. The Bible explains that God was pleased with his creations, “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:10-21).

The Drama of Scripture written by Bartholomew and Goheen takes the reader on a journey through the entire Bible in six short “acts.” The first Act discusses creation and the establishment of God’s Kingdom. In the beginning was complete darkness. Then, God created light and divided the heavens and the earth. He then split the waters and the seas, creating dry ground on which the rest of creation could walk. He proceeded to make plants and flowers and the sun, moon, and stars. He created days and seasons and animals of all shapes and sizes. And then, to add the finishing touch, God created men and women, male and female, He created them. The book states that “the Genesis story is given so that we might have a true understanding of the world in which we live, its divine author, and our own place in it” (Bartholomew, 29). Genesis 1-3, the story of Creation, is prevalent because it introduces the author of creation, humanity, and the creation upon which humanity’s drama unfolds.

In the beginning of times, written in the book of Genesis, God created the heaven and earth. He created light and darkness; sky and sea; land and vegetation stars, sun and the moon; sea creatures including fish and birds; and lastly animals and mankind. He began with his image of the man. He built him so perfectly and created a wife for him through his rib. The women became second to the man. The women is the helper of the man, to procreate and obey the man. God created the man to be the head of the house and the women to be submissive of the

The book of Genesis tells the story of the beginning of the world. Genesis answers some of life’s biggest questions- why are we here, how did everything come to be, how do I relate to others around me. Through this story, God’s unchanging nature is revealed. We are exposed to man’s shortcomings and failures, but we are also offered the hope of one to come who will be the savior of all. The first eleven chapters of Genesis provide a foundation for a Biblical worldview- an explanation of how a Christian should view the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization.

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.

“11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.” Genesis 1: 11-12. God saw that every thing was bad. But among the evil in the world, God saw the good in one man and his family. Noah, and his sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth.

For example, in Genesis 1, the bible says, “God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night” (Gen 1:17). This shows that God created day and night, two crucial functionalities of our world today. Later on, in Genesis 2, as God is creating man and woman, he notes that the proper or suitable helper for man was one from “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” (Gen 2:23). This insinuated that the perfect counterpart for a man was someone from their own flesh, thus God created woman. In section of ‘the Fall,’ when the man and woman (Adam and Eve) are manipulated by the deceitful serpent, we learn the lesson of the evils of human nature, and how it is very easy to give in to temptation.

The vivid story of the creation account found in Genesis 1 and 2 often gets lost in the question of “how” rather than the question of “why.” Desmond Alexander points out that the creation story “often hijacked by those who are almost exclusively preoccupied by the modern debate on the relationship between the biblical view of creation and that of contemporary science” (Alexander 119). Gary Schnittjer helps by adding, “Problems occur when readers use the scriptures to answer their own questions—questions that the biblical text was not designed to answer” (Schnittjer 1048). The creation story is not as much a detailed explanation of how the world was created, but rather a theological description of God’s purpose and relationship in creating humanity (Schnittjer 816). Even more, the Genesis account provides a means to interpret the rest of the “the story of which it is a part” (Schnittjer

Although the Bible alludes to man and women being the original primary relationship, another portion of the creation story that contributes to the social injustices that LGBT people face is the creation of Adam and Eve. A colloquial phrase that a plethora of religious followers state to justify heterosexual relationships is “ God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”. It is stated in Genesis that “ the Lord said, “It is not good that the man should be alone…Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Genesis 2:18-2:24). The presiding quote is commonly utilized to say that man is for the woman and that they are meant to complete each other in marriage. This idea that man and woman are solely meant for one another is also used to demean homosexual relationships. Up until this past year in American homosexual individuals did not have the right to marry people of the same sex.

of human kind. Another aspect that makes man and woman equal are the delicate materials God creates them from. God creates Adam from dust, where his life hangs by a breath that is out of his control, making him remain and silent and passive. The rib of Adam from which Eve comes from, portrays unity and egalitarianism. Before the establishment of Eve, God would address Adam as ‘adham meaning male and female. The male and female connect and depend on one another. Eve was sent to be a helper towards Adam. "It is not good that 'adham should be alone; I will make a helper fit for him" (Trible, 141).Conveyed in the Old Testament, God is seen as a helper to Israel, someone who loves and saves his people. This gives a disadvantage to man, as Adam will rely on Eve to make decisions, such as eating the forbidden fruit from

One of the passages that I thought went with my Gaudium et Spes was in Genesis 1:27-28 “ God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female created them. And God blessed them and said “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Bible pg 13)This goes with saying that God made man and wife to gather in holy