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.
“In the years that followed the girl and the grizzly bear had many children.” One creator created the earth: The women used dirt lodged in her fingernails and sand from the bottom of the sea as the first soil to be part of earth (40). “Before there were people, [there was] the Chief of the Sky Spirits... [who] broke of an end of his giant stick and the small pieces became fish.” “In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and what existed was covered by death and hunger.
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.
On the first day, God created the heaven and the Earth, the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters on earth, and God said, “let there be light”. God saw this light and said it was good and divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the dark night. On the second day, God said, “let there be firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters”, God called the firmament heaven. On the third day God said “let the water be gathered under the heaven and let there be dry land”, God called the water, sea, and the ground earth and said it was good, and god let the earth bring forth grass and herbs yielding seeds and the fruit tree yielding fruit whose seed is into the earth and saw it and said that it was good.
Voices projecting from a distant television, bold headlines smothering tabloids, the caress of numbered buttons on automated teller machines, all harmonize creating a melody of distractions for a disease stricken society. A society attempting to occupy their senses with a soundtrack on repeat, failing to suppress an ever-present fear. Such imagery unnaturally emerges from the pages of DeLillo’s novel to emphasize the validity of its purpose. Unfortunately, the white noise fails to mask thoughts of the inevitable, which constantly linger in dark corners of worrisome minds. The airborne toxic creates a physical hindrance that correlates with the progression of internal struggles that occur in a mind inhabited with the fear of death.
Our worldview is the lens that we make sense of life and should be intentional as we adopt a philosophy of life that is informed by something greater than ourselves as Christ should be our example, according to 1 Peter 2:21 “for [as a believer] you have been called for this purpose, since Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you may follow in His footsteps” (Amplified Version). For this reason, our moral compass when based on a biblical worldview should influence how we approach making decisions as it pertains to business ethics (Porter,2013). To what extent do your personal religious (or non-religious) beliefs about life impact your sense of business ethics and personal decision-making? Every decision that I reach
In Genesis chapters 1 and 2 God lays out the order in which he created and made things by the power of his spoken word. He chose to do his creative or restorative work in six literal twenty-four hour days. It is evident that he could have spoken it all into existence in an instant, but instead he chose to divide it into these six literal days for a distinct purpose. As we examine this historical account it is of interest to note that he calls nearly everything that was made good, with the exception of a couple of things.
It was not an easy process. I came across many crossroads and was still confused on what to do. I was at the point of giving up until I reread “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson. I asked myself ,”why was it so easy for Johnson to write this story?” Then I realized that he did more than just wrote down the creation on paper.
The judeo-Christian story is very well known creation story. The Christian religion is very familiar to this story. The other story is called Iroquois creation this is a Native American story of how the Earth came to a beginning. There is many similarities and differences in this story. One of the differences is that in the Christian story the Earth was made by God.
The Christian biblical narrative creation, fall, redemption, and restoration describe the nature of God and of reality in relation to the reality of sickness and disease. Creation: In creation, God created the earth and man in his own image. The earth was made for man to thrive on by being loving, kind, peaceful according to the Lord’s purpose by glorifying him. Earth was full of God 's glory and peace, heavenly peace in which everything worked according to God’s will and every creature lived in peace forever.
There are over hundreds of creation stories from many various cultures, religions, or areas. Though we may never know if any are true, creation stories are the basis of every culture and religion. One of the most popular and well-known stories about the foundation of the world is the Catholic creation story about God constructing the Earth in six days and resting on the seventh. Two other recognized legends are the Hawaiian creation myth and the Iroquois creation myth, also known as “The World on the Turtle’s Back.” Each account of creation is diverse in several aspects, but the most interesting thing is they are similar in many points also.
CREATION MYTHS Who created us? That’s the real question, and it is in our nature to wonder about the human creation. It’s obvious we all want to know who created this world and more important who created humans? Many have tried to explain our real creation. All the explanations we could possibly imagine, fall in two different categories: scientific and religious.
1. Outline a plan that will assess the effectiveness of the market structure for the company’s operations. Note: In Assignment 1, the assumption was that the market structure for selling environment was perfectly competitive and that the equilibrium price was to be determined by setting QD equal to QS. You are now aware of recent changes in the selling environment that suggest an imperfectly competitive market where your firm now has substantial market power in setting its own “optimal” price.
Floating about in all types of literature, there are many legends as to how the earth was created; these legends are known as creation myths. A creation myth offers answers to questions that ask how the earth was created, and explains the social customs of today as well as the workings of the natural world by telling an elaborate story. The Cherokee Indians have spread their beliefs on this topic throughout generations through oral tradition. Recent authors have taken these myths to paper to preserve history and to spread them even further around the world. “How the World Was Made” is a creation myth that not only offers an abundance of information regarding the origin of earth, but also supports the social traditions of today’s society and attempts to explain the intangible, natural workings of the world.
