Do you believe CREATION happened in the way GENESIS describes it?

Question

I wanna hear your thoughts about this.....all religions are welcome to answer this question.....thanks

Answer 1

I really find it very hard to believe, I'm sorry.

Cheers!

ST

Answer 2

Hi Sam,
I'm a Christian. Hey, its kinda tricky to answer this particular question, because
we have a group called "Creationists" who run around saying the Bible states this earth is 6000 years old.
Yes, I believe Creation happened just exactly the way its written in Genesis, EXCEPT that people think it says things that it does not say.
The very first verse says: In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth.
That statement alone makes folks think that the earth was created as described in the
verses that follow: IT WASN'T.
I study in the manuscripts. When does that first verse say God created the earth? It doesn't: just "in the beginning". According to the rest of the Bible, there are three earth ages, and when you read in Genesis, you are reading of the REJUVINATION of the earth, not its very first creation.
So, since I don't want to give you five thousand quotes from the Bible, my answer to you is this:
Yes, creation happened just as you read in Genesis, but because it is sometimes real hard when translating the Bible from the original languages, often you lose quite a bit of what the deeper thought is that the writer wishes to convey. The manuscripts are quite clear that the earth was created
eons and eons ago, and I assure you there is no controversy between that truth of Gods Word, and true science.
i sure wish that Creationists would keep their mouths shut since they are not obviously scholars of the Word, and are in fact, Biblically illiterate.
Gods Word isn't the problem: unlearned people are the problem. In their defense, I have to say that its not their fault, but the fault of the churches for them not being
taught the truth.

Answer 3

The order of what appeared on earth first, second, etc agrees with science. Genesis is an accountable narration of the earths forming (if you look at other 'myths' about the creation of the world, they are NOTHING like Genesis' account of it, however many things were borrowed.' It's amazing for the three thousand old book.

Answer 4

The view that Scripture should be read literally word for word as the inerrant and sole revelation of God is Reformationism taken to its extreme and is more of a product of American folk religion than anything. Anyone who has gone through a high school science class has sense enough to know that Genesis 1 and 2 couldn't have happened. I believe that God did "create" the universe. That's what the Big Bang was. Everything else fell into place via the laws of science over the course of trillions and trillions of years.

The Bible was written by men. It has to be read for spiritual truth, not historical truth.

Answer 5

I think Genesis could have easily been written in a more prophetic way much like the Book of Revelation. The Bible is not meant to be taken literally. For example the Catholic Church in the 1500s did not accept Galileo's theory of the earth revolving around the sun because of a few Biblical passages that talk about the earth being stationary and the sun revolving around the earth. For those of you who do not believe me, look up Galileo on Wikipedia for the book and the verses.

Answer 6

Absolutly! The Bible in Genesis describes the same 6 stages that Science finds as they examine the fossil record. It also describes 7 creative epochs or eras which could have lasted thousands or millions of years each. The Bible itself teaches that the final day or "rest day" was still in effect at least in the day of the apostles of Christ.

It has become a crisis that mis-informed "creationists" have taught that each creative "day" was a mere 24 hours long.

Answer 7

Yes, I do believe Creation did in truth occur as written in Genesis. I beleive that because I believe that is what was given to Moses to write about, by the One who created this.

Do I believe that Creation has remained as was described?
Now that is another question!

Answer 8

sam you will love this answer yep it happened pretty much as the bible depicts it with one small revision woman came first not man . the proof is still visable today . all humans start in the womb as the basic female form only after the mutating effects of testosterone is a male child born . upon his chest one finds underdevloped breasts his scrotum bears the seam of closed labia of a vagina his penis merely the enlarged clit . his prostrta the remains of what was once a vagina and womb . science and facts never lie ..

Answer 9

No. I think that the Bible was written for the people who lived thousands of years ago. It still speaks to us, of course, but it is important to know the context and the spirit of what it is written there.
Many different cultures have their own versions of a Creation. It is normal that we try to explain what was the beginning of the world that surround us. Perhaps it is true in our poetic mind, in our collective subconscious, but not in from scientific point of view.
The important thing in this case is not wether God made the world in such way, but the afirmation of God's power and supremacy.
I think the statement of the creation of Eve out of one of Adam's ribs was clearly adressed to a different society, but...let's leave it here. ;)

Answer 10

Do you mean...

The Creation in Genesis 1 where God made plants and animals before man (for man to rule over them), or...

The Creation in Genesis 2 where God made plants and animals AFTER man (plants - because there was no man to till the soil - animals - because man needed a companion)?

Answer 11

How could it? Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 give two different orders in which things were created.