Questions tagged [creation]
The process whereby God brought the heavens and the earth, and all of their diverse contents, into existence
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History of creatio ex nihilo
I have recently read that many pagan religions have their creation myth being creation by bringing order to primordial chaos. The accounts, if you squint, are not that different from what we have in ...
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Does the creative "spoken word" of Jesus (e.g. Luke 18:42) demand a Young Earth Fiat Creation interpretation of Gen. 1:1?
Since Jesus could create living organs (eyes, legs, whole bodied such as that of Lazarus, etc.) and even bring food into existence, in a split moment of time, do these feats demand accepting the short ...
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Who are the "us" in Gen.1.26; And God said let us make man in our image and likeness.....? [closed]
Is this the Trinity, and if it is how do we know? I have read that the Jewish interpretation is that God is talking to angels, or Michel Heiser says it's the divine counsel. Is there any way to figure ...
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Besides Augustine and Origen, did any church fathers reject a literal interpretation of Genesis 1-2:4?
Augustine allegorically interpreted the first creation account in Genesis 1 - 2:4 but seems to have literally interpreted the second creation account in Genesis 2:5-3:24. Origen allegorically ...
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Is creatio ex nihilo accepted theology for all mainstream Christian denominations?
The Wikipedia article on creatio ex nihilo indicates that this theology is part of Christianity, but it is unclear whether it is universally accepted or not.
Reading the questions on this site about ...
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How do Latter Day Saints interpret the Bible verses saying that all things were created by God?
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:3
There are also Book of Mormon verses saying that God created all things as well.
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What is the Biblical basis for the idea of 'creation ex nihilo'?
Dr. Dan McClellan in a recent video says
"[T]he doctrine of creation ex nihilo is not found anywhere in the
Bible. The academic consensus is that it is a creation of 2nd century
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According to Genesis, did all land animals come before humans, or were some created after?
According to Genesis 1:25,
God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds
on the 6th day. It then says at Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man
According to Young Earth ...
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What is the Biblical basis for the logos being only the means for creation? [closed]
All things came into being through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into being that has come into being John 1:3
Are we given any indication that the logos made anything? Or is it ...
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How do Trinitarians deal with this contradiction regarding the Creator?
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
If a trinitarian is asked which God is being referred to, which God created the heaven and the earth at the beginning, MOST, if not ...
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How do holders of a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 interpret the word "rule" in verse 16 in light of its apparent contradiction to observation?
Genesis 1:16, King James Version, reads:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
I am specifically asking ...
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When interpreting the Genesis Creation LITERALLY, does there EXIST a better cosmological explanation then a geocentric earth?
The Genesis account of creation tells of YHWH creating the earth and heavens on the first day. Then 3 days later He created the luminaries.
From a literal interpretation, is there an alternative ...
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Was Adam really "alone" if God took 'Woman out of Man'? Is a woman alone if out of her womb 'a new one' comes? [closed]
Texts (from the Complete Jewish Bible translation):
Genesis 2:18 (CJB):
ADONAI, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”
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Could this be a reason why a school head-teacher refused to give permission for Genesis 1:27 to be quoted during a school assembly?
The visitor, who was to address many British school children on some of the things taught in the opening chapters of Genesis (and who I personally know, hearing this from him first-hand), had his talk ...
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How does LDS creation doctrine explain so many different words for the creation process in Isaiah 45:18?
This comment below from an answer to this question
The very, very short answer is YES, all spirit/intelligence (and matter) is self-existent, and the act of creation is forming them, not creating ...
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Were angels with God in the beginning?
The Book of Job indicates that angels were with God in the beginning, when the heavens and the earth were created
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you
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According to Creationists, what are the strongest arguments against abiogenesis?
From Abiogenesis - Wikipedia:
In biology, abiogenesis (from a-‘not’ + Greek bios ‘life’ + genesis 'origin') or the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living ...
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If the account of creation in Genesis 1 can be shown to strongly correlate with science, would that prove the divine inspiration of the Bible?
This question is made from the perspective of Old Earth Creationism (OEC), especially that espoused by Hugh Ross at reasons.org. I have also created a website at big.bible to explore these questions ...
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Can God make things disappear?
I understand there is the theology of creation ex nihilo; but has any theologian thought of whether God can make things go from existing to nihilo? In other words, can God make something not exist ...
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What is an overview of the main arguments that angels do or do not already exist at Genesis 1:1?
Genesis 1:1 is
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
But there's no mention of God creating angels. What are the main arguments that angels were or were not already ...
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Is God a Legislator or Executive? Or both?
I can see two ways in which one can see natural (physical) laws (three, actually):
God creates his creation, and natural laws, then His creation autonomously acts according to those laws
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How can one say that existence is good, without using Divine Revelation?
It's well known that one can prove the existence of God through the light of natural reason alone (e.g. the Five Ways). However, Divine Revelation would also show this.
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What came first, water or light?
Genesis 1
The Creation
(John 1:1–5; Hebrews 11:1–3)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And ...
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How long did Adam stay in Eden?
Are there hints in the Bible or are there any hypotheses about the period of time Adam and Eve sojourned in Eden after their creation?
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How do proponents of the “Framework hypothesis” hold to their view when God used the word “Yom” instead of “Olam” in Genesis 1? [closed]
Knowing that the Hebrew word generally used for day is yom, and the word for eternal/ or Age (Olam) isn’t used, how do the proponents of the framework hypothesis hold their view?
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Q: Have any Protestant Biologists who don’t believe in evolution posted real research papers showing how evolution is not likely or possible?
I think I heard a famous atheist say creation and ...
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According to Protestantism, why did God make exoplanets?
According to Wikipedia’s data, it says:
“This is a list of exoplanets. As of 1 May 2022, there are 5,017
confirmed exoplanets in 3,694 planetary systems, with 822 systems
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Under divine simplicity, how can God do anything?
The consequence of divine simplicity is that God is being subsisting and can only be immutable.
If so how does God do anything? Or how did he create?
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What is the basis for a mythical reading of Genesis 1-2?
I have seen many times the claim that Genesis 1-2 is intended by the author(s) to be taken as a myth, that ancient people took it as a myth, etc.
Now, maybe I'm just weird, but I don't see this from ...
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How does LDS interpret Colossians 1:16?
From this answer I gather that LDS teaches that all beings are eternal and that by eternal it is not meant existing timelessly beginning at some point but, rather, not actually having any starting ...
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Can a supernova be reconciled as a creation event by. "Young Earth" religious groups and equally supported scientifically? [duplicate]
First of all, my question is not searching for a solution to the speed of light/time issue.
ie How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible ...
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If we will have free will and be sinless in Heaven at the same time, then why did God not create a world with sinless free creatures to begin with?
This question is scoped to those who believe that:
We have libertarian free wills
We will retain our free will in Heaven
We will be sinless in Heaven
Question: If Heaven demonstrates that it is ...
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What is Ken Ham's opinion of denominations that allow for evolution and an old universe?
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I remember watching most of the Ken Ham vs Bill Nye debate back around 2013-2015. I found the whole thing pointless. My thought was like 'If the guy says (my interpretation of the) Bible ...
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When God creates each individual soul, is it without original sin at that moment?
According to the Catholic Catechism, 366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it ...
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According to the Catholic Church, Does God create each new individual with original sin?
According to the Catholic Catechism, every spiritual soul is directly created by God. At the moment the individual is created by God, does it have original sin? Or is original sin added later?
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What are the implications of Gen 1:26 which speaks of God having already thought of the name “humankind” before He created man?
We hear God the Creator saying in Gen 1:26( NRSVCE)
Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness;....
Interestingly, all other things God created would be named only after they had ...
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What is the origin of the belief that God will not destroy the world but use the current one?
After a discussion about climate change with other believers, I noted that the Lord will destroy the Earth and create a new one - particularly in light of Isaiah 65:17-25 & 2 Peter 3:7 where it ...
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Is naturalistic cosmology pointing us back to viewing stars as gods (similar to how pagans did), crediting stars with giving meaning to the universe?
I ask this after seeing a documentary on BBC TV, the evening of 27 October 2021, where Professor Brian Cox started a new series on the universe. This first episode dealt with the way the universe ...
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According to LDS, on what earth did God live before he became God and created everything?
There is an LDS doctrine which appears in catchy couplet form as follows:
As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be
5th LDS President Lorenzo Snow is said to have formed this couplet on ...
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According to the YEC, when was the earth created? [closed]
A quote from this link :
The sun is not needed for day and night. What is needed is light and a
rotating earth.
To me, the sentence in the quote above tell something like this :
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According to Young Earth Creationism, how did carnivores come into existence?
According to Young Earth Creationism, were all animals vegetarian/vegan before the fall? If so, how did carnivores come into existence? Did carnivores evolve from vegetarian ancestors? Were carnivores ...
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What are the two great lights in Gen 1:16 according to the Young Earth Creationism?
Genesis 1:16a (verse-A)
God made two great lights the larger one to govern the day, and the
smaller one to govern the night.
Genesis 1:16b (verse-B)
He ALSO made the stars.
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According to the Young Earth Creationism, what does it mean Genesis 1:14 and 18?
Genesis 1:14
Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from
the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days
and years
The sentence above leads me to a ...
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According to the Young Earth Creationism, how is the whole earth globe after the creation of the light? [closed]
As we all know, when there is one light source - any solid sphere shape will have part of its surface dark - because the light rays is in one direction.
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According to the Young Earth Creationism, did God wait or did God work for 6 x 24 hours non-stop?
A. What I mean of "God wait" is :
God create anything instantly.
So, after He created something, He waited for almost 24 hours to do His next work.
B. What I mean 6 x 24 hours non stop is :
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In what form did water exist before the creation of light? [duplicate]
We read in Genesis how God created heavens, earth and light :
"In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the ...
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Why does Genesis not specifically mention the creation of water?
We read of the first day of Creation in Gen 1:1-4:
"In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a ...
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How do Latter-day Saints respond to William Lane Craig's philosophical objections to the Mormon view of creation?
The Mormon View of Creation is the title of an episode of the Reasonable Faith Podcast, recorded on February 16, 2010, in which William Lane Craig, a renowned Christian apologist, philosopher and ...
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What does Paul mean by "divine nature", as revealed through creation?
In Romans 1, the Apostle Paul says
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what ...
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Did God create the coronavirus? [closed]
If so, why? If not, why? If he didn’t create it, didn’t he at least know it would happen since he knows everything? Did he allow it to happen anyway? What reasons do we have to know this? Mention any ...
