Sin enters the picture in Chapter 2 of Genesis and disrupt God's intentions for His creation. Socioeconomic, political or racial systems that disrupt the God-intended order are sinful.

Creation (Genesis 1) Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God.

In that case, Genesis 1:1 reads, “In the beginning of God’s creating of the heavens and the earth.” That doesn’t imply creation out of nothing.

I would appreciate your insight on a few questions that I have about the creation story. In Genesis 1 and 2 of the Bible there are two different versions of the story.

Even in a children’s Bible the distinctions God made when creating the universe were obvious. Each bit of the world was broken into pairs and opposites. For a kid who liked order and organization, the ...

He also explores the ancient creation narrative that he claims is most directly in competition with Genesis, the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Measuring these two alternative creation stories against one ...

Brian Mariani will speak on the "5 Deceptions Regarding God, the Bible, Science and Creation" at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Bethel Baptist Church, 1601 Libal St., Allouez.

In the midst of that spiritual chaos, the writer of Genesis 1 offered this story, in which God, step by step, creates every aspect of existence. The story actually begins from a place of chaos.

God “allows” power politics to unfold without divine intervention. By the Middle Ages, what earlier rabbis had seen as the virtue of divine self-restraint was understood by both philosophers and ...

Genesis 1:26 tells us humanity is made in God’s image. God’s creativity is one of his central attributes revealed in the Creation story. God created everything we see around us out of nothing.