Unit 1.1 Creation Flashcards
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Fundementalist Protestant views on the creation
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- Do not accept big bang and evoloution
- Believe Genesis is factually correct
2
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Mainstream Protestants views on creation
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- Believe Bible is word of God but not his actuial words
- They accept big bang and evolution
- See Genesis 1 as fairly factual with the days as billions of years
3
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Liberal Protestant views on creation
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- Believe Bible isn’t word of God but people’s word of God
- Accept big bang and evolution
4
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Omnipotent
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All powerful
5
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Benevolent
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Good and loving
6
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The Biblical story of the creation shows God is…?
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- The Creator who created Heaven and Earth
- Omnipotent because he created the universe out of nothing (ex nihilo)
- Benevolent because he created the world for humans and made it a good place for them to live, with all the sustenance they need
- Eternal because he had no beginnings ( to create he must have existed before the beginning of time)
7
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How does the Biblical story show life as sacred?
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Those things which God creates must be like him, holy, s humans need to treat the cretion carefully and with respect
8
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FOR ‘It’s hard to believe the Biblical accounts of creation’
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- Science shows that the creation of the universe took billions of years, not six days
- Science shows that humans evolved from other species of mammals, not that they were suddenly created by God
- Science has evidence such as the Red Shift Effect and the fossil record
- There are two Bible accounts which seem to contradict one another
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AGAINST ‘It’s hard to believe the Biblical accounts of creation
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- If the Bible is the word of God it must be true and so is easy to believe
- It is easier to believe that God created the universe than that this huge complex system was just an accident
- It is easy to explain the different accounts of Genesis if chapters 2-3 are poetic explanations of chapter 1
- Gensis 1 is factual when a day is defined as billions of years rather than 24 hours
