The process whereby God brought the heavens and the earth, and all of their diverse contents, into existence
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Did God create man to be gods themselves?
Genesis 1:26-28 says:
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the ...
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Did Genesis 2 occur all in one day?
A comment to this answer prompted this question. Was Adam created, naming the animals, and married in one day, or did these events take place in a larger time span?
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Will there be ongoing co-creation (aka technological development) in heaven?
On Earth, the Catholic Church teaches that humans are co-creators with God.
To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his
providence by entrusting them with the ...
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How did God come to be? [duplicate]
I know this is an old question, but does anyone have any new ideas on it?
One argument is that God has always existed, but why should anything exist at all? How could this happen?
Another approach ...
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Is ex-nihilo creationism irreconcilable with the concept of individual free will?
Looking on this site in many answers involving the problem of evil I see affirmations of belief in free-will.
According to Calvinist Mark Hausam, who presented a paper at a conference on Mormonism, ...
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The attitude of animals before and after fall
According to the verse below I believe this is how it was in the garden of eden, and how it should be
Isaiah 11:6
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down ...
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Is there a biblical reason to limit information about creation to Genesis?
Here's a debate between Hugh Ross of "Reasons to Believe" and Ken Ham. These men are popular spokesmen for each of Old Earth and Young Earth Creationism, respectively. In the hour-long discussion, ...
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Is modern technology part of the Divine Intention? [closed]
These days we have very advanced technologies which our forefathers could not have think of. Are the discoveries and inventions part of the Divine Plan or Intention?
Genesis 1:28 (NIV) God ...
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Man's immortality in the Garden of Eden [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the specific meaning of “die” in Genesis 2?
In the book of Genesis, God said they would die if they eat from a certain tree
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of ...
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Is it possible the Biblical and scientific timelines for the age of the earth could link up? [duplicate]
In many versions of the Bible I have e read, in fiitnotes/endotes they say the Hebrew term for "day" could also mean "period of time." So if you took period of time to mean oh say, a billion years, ...
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In creation of the earth and mankind, how much thought was put into this? [closed]
Unsure if this is an unanswerable question or a more philosophical one, but do you think God just made the earth/man and all its intricacies or do you think God thought before creating everything? ...
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What does the Bible say about aliens? Did God create any life outside Earth? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does the Bible make any allusions to life on other planets?
God created us in His own image, we can be proud that we are His privileged creations in this Earth. But are ...
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Why does Intelligent Design reject evolution, even intelligently designed and executed evolution? [closed]
Intelligent Design is a current brand of natural philosophy that at its simplest holds that the Universe (ie, everything) has been designed intelligently. It opposes ideas like a spontaneous beginning ...
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How do Creationist Christians respond to the evidence for Evolution? [closed]
This is a question for people who believe in the creation.
One point considered a serious proof of evolution is the scientific method of carbon dating. As per this method, humans haven't existed from ...
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How does Christianity respond to scientific theory that Man originated through evolution? [closed]
Science claims that men originated through evolution. Christianity claims that men originated from Adam and Eves.
How Christianity respond the claims of modern science?
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Which came first, Man or Animal?
Genesis 1:24-27 states that humans were created after the other animals, and the first man and woman were created simultaneously.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature ...
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Reason for creating unnecessary creatures
When God first created this world, he made all the creatures that exist to this day. That ranges from Sophisticated beings like Humans to creatures that only have a life-span of a day or two.
God must ...
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Could Adam calculate the age of the earth using science?
I some times wonder when God made the garden, to beautify it, the trees for example must have been differing height and width. Therefore, assuming a literal 7 day creation, if Adam were to cut a ...
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Bible evidence in favour of creationism?
I need this sort of information to talk about creationism with an agnostic friend of mine. I know about the passages in Genesis, naturally, but I heard there are some more in the book of Job, ...
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Were Adam and Eve the first? [closed]
Question:
Reading Genesis, there seem to be quite a few references to some 'other' humans. How do scholars interpret those passages (and more importantly, why do they interpret them a certain way)? ...
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The Creation of the World [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can the sun be created after day and night?
I had this question for sometime on my mind, but couldn't find anyone to answer this.
On the first day God created the ...
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According to LDS theology, did God create the world ex nihilo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
According to the Mormon doctrines, who created the universe?
I was listening to a story on NPR about Mormon business ethics, when the claim was made that according to ...
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God in the Universe? [closed]
If at some point in the future scientists found intelligent creatures on other planets how do you think this would effect our religion?
I personally see this as a possibility, but as long as we don't ...
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Who Made the Serpent?
In my Bible it says,
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
So, if the serpent is more subtle (sic) than any beast the Lord God made, ...
