GENESIS/CREATION

Genesis/Creation



Genesis/Creation

Answer 1)

The idea of God as the Creator is perhaps the most radical theory of time ever conceived, one that imposes a definite beginning to time, along with an explanation of why this should have happened. Before God there was no time, according to this theory, because God created time when he created all things. Theories of God as Creator often, though not invariably, are accompanied by a complementary theory of God overseeing the end of time as well.

Theories of God as Creator are not the common property of humanity, but are the product of specific trends of thought involving monotheism, or the idea of a single god. In cultures that do not subscribe to monotheist notions of God, there is much less evidence of theories of God as Creator or, if such theories can be found, they are much less significant than in monotheist cultures. Creation accounts are also a relatively late development in the evolution of religious thought (Campbell, 2008)

The term god is very vague; its common uses include reference to an extremely wide range of sorts of thing, including living human beings (for example, the Egyptian pharaohs and the Roman emperors), humanlike beings with superhuman powers (for example, the Greek pantheon), and impersonal or even abstract concepts (for example, the Hindu Brahman). The aim of this article is to distinguish between some of the most important of these notions and to introduce some of the main ways in which different cultures have thought about and behaved toward their gods.

It's perhaps worth pointing out at the beginning that the notion of gods is, while not independent of that of religion, certainly not coextensive with it. It's even more difficult to give a single, universally accepted definition of religion than to do so for gods , but few would deny that it's possible for a religion to do without gods (as, for example, do many forms of Buddhism) and for someone to believe in the existence of gods while engaging in no religious practices or committing herself or himself to any particular set of religious doctrines.

Answer 2)

The book is a book of beginnings, as its Hebrew title suggestsbr'st meaning “In the beginning.” The name “Genesis” comes from the transliteration of the Greek for the first word of the book, which means “origins.” Both titles appropriately describe the contents of the Book of Genesis. The book tells of the creation of the universe, the dawn of humanity, the origin of sin, and the beginning of the Hebrew people.

The book centers around the promise God gave to Abram (renamed Abraham, Gen 17:5), which is to make him the father of a multitude of people who would become a nation (12:1-3) living in a specific land (13:14-15). This promise divides the book into two sections. The first part (chapters 1-11) explains how the world came to be, why it is the way it is at the time of Abraham, and that God was involved the entire ...