1. In the beginning, when Jesus created the heaven and the earth, 2. The earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters (Genesis 1: 1-2). Then God said “Let there be light, and the light was there, and God called light “day” and darkness “night”.
When both gods imagined “Earth” land formed from the darkness. They thought of trees, plants, mountains and valleys, water and sky. All of which appeared from the darkness. Thus Earth was formed.
Benchmark Assignment: Gospel Essentials “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1: l, New International Version). This is where it all began. God’s perfect Creation included night and day, sky and land and sea, the moon and the stars, all the birds and fish and animals, and humankind. Man quickly messed it up and the Fall hit hard. No more was humanity right with God.
This is compared to the second pillar of Enuma Elish where it states, “He created the evil wind, and the tempest, and the hurricane… He sent forth the winds which he had created.” He was looking over His creation, not just earth but all of the foundation of the universe. Now in Enuma Elish Marduk the Babylonian god is said to have created the earth as a purpose to serve the gods, which he did with Ea, his father who helped him create humans.
1. What is revealed about human nature (from Genesis 1-2)? Although the first two chapters of Genesis mainly discourses the creation of the universe, it also illustrates what is expected of human nature, as God intended. Humanity was blessed by God, as we are his creation, since we were creating in his likeliness.
Chapter one of Genesis goes over how God created the heavens and the Earth. On the first day he created night and day. On the second he created the sky. On the third day God created the land, the oceans, and the plants. On the fourth day God created the sun, the moon, and the stars.
In the Genesis Chapter 3 Verses 1-22 the main plot of the story is that Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. God told them that the fruit would kill them. But the the snake(Lucifer) told them that you will not die from eating the fruit but have your eyes opened and that you will be like the gods who know good form evil. So Eve takes the fruit and gives part of it to Adam and they both eat the fruit together. At that very moment they realize that they are naked and sew on leaves to cover their private areas.
He created the Heavens and the Earth on the first day and the light on the second and so
Anna Thompson David Schenker AMS 1060 17 February 2023 Essay 1.2 In the beginning, something created the heavens and the earth, as every creation story starts. Even Hesiod had the same concept, along with the book of Genesis. Although both of the works came from different cultures, they have the same idea and some of the same values.
The first similarity that I see is the way that the creation of the world is addressed. Both start out with some form of nothingness, in Genesis there is an empty void and in Theogony there was chaos. In genesis god first creates the heavens and the earth. This is shown in Theogony “ In the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss, But then Gaia, the earth came into being”
From the ancient Near East there are three Mesopotamian flood myths and one Judaic flood story. The oldest is the Eridu Genesis, shown a the left and written in 2300BC, then the Epic of Gilgamesh, pictured in the middle and dated to 2150BC, next is the Epic of Atrahasis, on the right and written around 1650BC, and then the Old Testament, written between 538 to 330BC. All four accounts of the flood begin the same way as result of the overpopulation of mankind or mankind is too noisy, mankind is to violent and corrupt or God become dissatisfied with mankind and decide that with the exception of their favorite mortal on Earth the rest of mankind should be eliminated by a flood.
The Bible describes it; ‘….the earth was without form and void… and darkness was upon the face of the deep’ (NKJVGenesis 1:2) and a similar claim is made in Hesiod’s Theogony which alleges that in the beginning there was only confusion of Chaos and unbroken darkness.
In “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson, God started creating everything that lies on earth today. He didn’t create it all at once. He took his time and used 7 days to create everything. I followed the same steps as I started to express my thoughts on paper.
The Gap Theory says that “In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth,” -Genesis 1:1. But Gap Theorists say that verse 1 is a completely different event than the commonly understood ‘Creation Week’. They say that GOD created the earth perfectly in verse 1, but then, when Satan committed the very first sin and GOD cast him and his followers out of Heaven, HE also completely destroyed the original earth with a flood. This is where we pick up in
It says in the Bible that God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. This is true but there may be more behind it. God spoke the universe into creation with the power of his words. That could just be symbolic, He may have created the universe over a span of billions of years. There is always an order or a law that we cannot change because it is beyond us, so God may have created the universe using an order and creating it under a law.
