Christian Myth
According to the Christian Myth, God created the world and all living things. They saw God as having three forms or aspects God, the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit, who carries out God’s will on earth. They believed that God sent Jesus to tell people about God, and that Jesus died to forgive Humanity’s sins. They believed that Jesus will return at the end of time, when there will be a New Creation of life. The following creation story is found in
Genesis 1 and 2 in the Old Testament Section of the Bible, the Christian holy book.
In the beginning, God created the universe. At first the earth was shapeless and covered in darkness, and God’s spirit hanged over the waters. God said, “Let there be light”.
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Covering themselves with fig leaves they tried to hide from God. But God knew of their sin and called out to them. Then he cursed the serpent and Adam and Eve, and in shame they were driven from the beautiful Garden. God told Adam he would now have to labour and sweat to work the very soil from which he had been created. Then God blocked the entrance to the Garden with a great fiery sword so that no could enter in.
The most important part of the story is the final creation of human beings. Since they were made in God’s image and given power over all living things, Christian believed that humans are the most important of God’s creations. Some Christians think that this means human can use the world as they wish, while other believed that God intended humans to care for an look after the work. Christians use the story of “The fall” to explain why suffering and death entered the world.
But they believed that God will create a new and better world where those who have tried to live as God wants, will live forever.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a Gothic novel, published in 1918. Frankenstein follows Victor
Frankenstein’s triumph the main protagonist of the story, as he reanimates a dead body with
However, evil soon entered the garden in the form of a serpent. One day when Eve was walking in the garden she encountered the evil serpent who encouraged her to take a fruit from one of God’s forbidden fruit trees. The serpent succeeded in deceiving Eve to take a fruit; she then ate the fruit and shared it with Adam. Then God became angry with Adam and Eve for betraying Him. To punish Adam and Eve, he ejected them from the garden and subjecting them to mortality, painful childbirth, sin and shame.
In the moral sense, we understand God is all powerful, and it humbles us that this mighty God would deal with and interact so graciously and kindly with us, His creation.
However, opposed to the secularist thoughts that we are yet negligible creatures, the bible lets us know that we are a unique creation, framed in Gods image. God created Adam in his image, giving him
“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our like-ness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”(Gen . 1.26)
Genesis 3 exposes the serpent, also known as the devil. The serpent asks Eve to
Messiah/Christ: In the Christian religion, the Messiah was a savoir who would bring the “Last Judgment.” They believed that Jesus, or Christ meaning “God’s anointed” in Greek, was this savior.
Adam and Eve were blessed by God; they lived in a sin free garden with no sickness or pain. Satan is called a deceiver. He is the Evil One who deceived Eve. He
“In the God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) God existed before all of His creation, therefore He is the sovereign creator. He created all to be good in His perfect wisdom. Though God is invisible, He has several distinct characteristics; compassionate, faithful, infinite, just, wise and all-powerful.
The biggest point that is revealed about human nature from the first two chapters of Genesis is that humans are made in the image of God. This is seen within the creation narrative since everything that God made was good which included the humans. Also, it is because of their original human nature being in the image of God as to why humans are viewed as being the pinnacle of creation, as shown since they receive the most attention of all of the parts of creation (Diffey, 2015).
Please review all your responses above and write a three-paragraph summation of the Christian worldview. In your brief summation, explain why it is important to know the story of the Bible and the common thread throughout the flags in the "Story of the Bible." Finally, how does your interpretation of life compare with the Christian Worldview reflected in the biblical story?
These verses state “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’” (Gen. 3:8-9). From this passage, we glean that God habitually walked with His stewards through the garden at the end of each day and fellowshipped with them. However, because of their disobedience, Adam and Eve became ashamed of themselves and afraid of God. God was forced to evict His people from the garden as a result of their refusal to repent, and their relationship with Him was never again the same. The account of Cain and Abel reveals that from that point on, God required sacrifices from His people in order to restore fellowship. Moreover, He still spoke to them, but He no longer walked among them. Adam and Eve thus longed for the promised Seed who would undo the effects of the curse and bring back God’s favor upon their
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.
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.
Christians believe God created everything living from the trees to the fishes in the sea. The human identity is found in knowing their true nature, and accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Mankind was created basically to be stewards, they are
However, they rebel and sin enters the world after a serpent tricks Eve into questioning God’s love and motives. In her gullible innocence, she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). Eve shared the fruit with Adam and they spiritually and physically die. This was catastrophic to Gods Order and led to the condemnation of all human beings (Roman 5:18). Immediately, they