Theories Of Creation Myth

Who made who? Did God create humans or did humans create god? At first thought one

For thousands of years, scientists have tried to interpret the concept of creation. However, before people had access to modern scientific equipment, they told creations stories. A creation story is a myth that explains how and why the earth was made. A few cultures with differing opinions on creation are Europeans, Cherokee Indians, West Africans, and Hawaiians. Europeans tell the story of Genesis and God creating the earth in seven days and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Cherokee Indians believe that the earth was created by a water beetle. In West African culture, they teach the Golden Chain story, and Hawaiians have the Kumulipo story to explain their beliefs on creation. Although each story follows a basic guideline, they all have distinct disparities.

In the beginning God created the heavens with the Earth along with man in his own image. For over 1500 years, Christian followers were heavy believers of the bible, seeing it as the primary source for knowledge. Then came the scientific revolution in the 1500s, a movement which challenged the Christian view of the universe. It was a time when people were looking for a new way of thinking about the world. Since then and to this day, there has been several instances in which scientific inquiry and religious belief have collided in their ideologies.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. …the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” In the Christian faith the world was created by God in the sequence of seven days. Throughout those days he made light and darkness, water and sky; he made the animals of the water and the animals

One of the fundamental questions that religions seek to answer is that of origin. How was man put on earth? Why and from what was he created? Who created him? What does his creation imply about the status of human beings? Some or all of these questions are answered by a religion’s creation stories. Every religion’s creation myths attempt to give solutions to problems present to that religious society. Because of this, each religion may have one or more creation stories, each of those different from one another in the questions they ask and the answers they give.

Myths – as they are known to most of the world – give insight into the pasts of various countries and religions as the people saw them. They have been used to explain phenomenons in nature or describe the tales of courageous and important men and women throughout history. Creation myths in particular define how the Earth itself was created, along with the universe, heavens, hell, people, and creatures that exist today. Genesis of Christian mythology, for instance, tells the story of how the single deity God spoke and formed everything from day and night to man and woman. Various African creation myths, such as with the Yoruba, explain the creation of the Earth through at least a couple gods working together and all life

By Faith we believe that God created the Natural World that He is the creator of all things. He is the source of all that live, and spoke the world into existence. The Bible begins with “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genisis1:1) In Romans 1:20 (NLT) Paul tells us “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.” God took a blank canvas and used his brush to paint a masterpiece called planet Earth. With us in mind, he painted magnificent sunrises and sunsets, mountains, animals, the stars, moon and the sky. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” (Psalm 19:1 NIV) Sadly man set to out to invalidate creation and to take the glory away from God. Man had become wicked and began to follow after their own desires. “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation

Since then, the origin of the universe became a very big question to everyone. The curiosity we possess help us seek answers from different questions we can think of. Different hypotheses and ideas were formed with great scientific evidence to prove that the universe began as a single primordial atom. The scientists even found out that the universe is expanding because of the great amount of dark matter present in it. However, with these ideas, the religious thinking of people could not be removed. The concept of God being the Creator of all the things that existed contradicts the views of the theories formed. The stories and verses contained in the bible are different from the results of studies connected to it. Here, I investigate the things

Creation Myth Outline 1. Your origin myth will explain the origin or beginning of what? My myth will explain why most of nature is green. 2.

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.

What is a motif you may wonder? What do they consist of and how do they change the thoughts on how we were created? A motif is something that you see in one creation myth, that is found in many others. Motifs show us that certain pieces of different religions are the same, or could be connected completely. When the same motif is repeated over and over it can show us different connections and new information on more than one creation myth.

at do different cultural perspectives on creation tell us about their view of the relationship with their god and their creation? Each religion or culture has their own belief and story about how they believe their culture came to be, but does it tell us something more about how their perceive their god or gods? Many common elements present in nearly every creation myth show us how people view their relationship with not only their creation, but their gods themselves. For example, the Christian perspective of god gives a view of one who is just but can be vengeful if provoked, which reflects in their culture as men believe they will go to hell if they are not good on earth, whereas other religions such as Greeks believe their gods to be mischievous

After reading the 5 creation myths, one “elementary idea” that is evident in at least 2 of these myths is the idea of forbidden things being broken. This is shown through the Greek Creation Myth and the African Bushmen Creation Myth. The idea behind this elementary idea is that when there is something in the world that is forbidden people are eventually driven to do the forbidden thing and break the rules. Both myths additionally share the “elementary idea” there being a being that originally created everything and formed the world.

Creation narratives are theories about the universe that certain cultures have. For example religions such as Christianity or Jewish where they believe in a higher power pulling the string of the universe like some god or multiples of such. The one exception to this is theories of evolution where we evolve from ape instead of some higher power having a more scientific approach to their reasoning. The Five creation narratives discussed in this weekly discussion will be from creation narratives of the Christians, Hindus, Mesoamerica, The Yoruba people of Africa, and Buddhist. Included in this will be if they believed in a divine being or not, How such being created things, and how humans were created and out of what material.

The motifs found in the creation myths are undoubtedly different from those found in any other type of myth. Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of the creation myths is much greater than a primitive attempt to explain the mysteries of creation. Behind each creation myth is a vast variety of symbolism along with a number of motives which are often shared between cultures, despite vast geographical differences. My intention here is not only to discuss the purpose of the creation myths, but also to compare and contrast common themes which can be found in three selected works. These being, an Eskimo creation myth, the Ongwe creation myth and the Navajo creation myth.