Cosmic Creation Myths Across Cultures Shari Rose HUM/105 January 26, 2015 Professor Frank Varisco Cosmic Creation Myths Across Cultures Myth Mythology allows you to journey into an exciting, mysterious world where legends and heroes make up the world. For centuries the word myth has been around and the mean is so many different things to different people. Academic experts have heated debates about what a myth is and its functions in human lives. There has been so much conflict with the meaning of this word, some scholars have declared the word meaningless. When looking for pure story value, readings in mythology are not a perfect match.
Christians believe that God created the world and all that is in it. It is believed that humanity is created in the image of God, and that God gave people free will therefore there is good and evil in the world. The Ten Commandments are guidelines received by Moses from God on how adherents can lead good lives. They should not be avoided in fear of punishment, but embraced as a way to be saved from The Fall, where humans make sinful choices. Adherents believe meaning can be found in their response to evil and suffering.
God gets angry and destroys the tower. He scatters the people across the earth by confusing their common language, thus forever dividing humankind into separate nations. God’s relationship with Abram begins by setting him apart with a promise in Genesis 12:1-3. It has a covenant structure. God’s rule obligated himself to Abram while assigning him a task: Abram was to leave his father’s house in Ur, a city of the Chaldeans and his father’s birthplace, and Yahweh would show him where to go.
I believe we think this because in the bible we are taught that god takes time to create and mold each individual. In the story of Popul VUH we are given generic creations multiple times. Where there is a Noah or Adam and Eve, in opposite there is they, human, daughter, or mold of the maker. When displeased with his work God created the great flood to wipe out anything not worthy in his sight. When displeased with their creations in Popul VUH the experiments were harshly removed, naturally they would become food.
The Quran in S. 7:54, 10:3, 11:7, and 25:59 clearly teaches that God created "the heavens and the earth" in six days. The Islam view of mankind it that man was created and placed on this earth to be an honored creature. His life should be full of worth and without humiliation and as a result equal to any other creatures
His sermon was typical of the era and can be assumed to be quite effective. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” paints a vivid picture of Hell and informs the audience that they are kept out of hell only by the “mere pleasure of God (p 426).” Puritans had a different view of Christianity and God then most people today. They believed we are all born sinners (depravity). Modern day Christians believe this to be partially true because of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden where Eve eats a fruit from the Forbidden Tree and then persuades Adam to eat too. This was the first sin and is now a part of everyone thus creating the initial need for people to accept Jesus Christ and to repent for their sins.
This evidence is consistent with Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Paul eluded to this when he said that God’s invisible qualities, eternal power, and divine nature is clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Rom.1:20). Therefore, we are to worship the Creator and not the creation (1:25). But fallen man do not give God the honor and glory for all the beauty and order He designed in His wonderful universe He created.
This story tells us of Adam and Eve and how mankind came to be like we are today, much like the Hebrew Bible. It tells us of their innocence in the Garden of Eden and how they quickly lost it due to Satan’s persuasiveness. Paradise Lost tells us how Eve was betrayed by a serpent-Satan- and how eating from the forbidden fruit tree made them lose their innocence. Once their innocence was lost, Adam and Eve covered their naked bodies and were sent out of the Garden of Eden. God told Adam of the sins that were in the future, and though rather than being scared, he was more looking on the bright side of his and Eve’s future together.
They believe that you are the center of your religion, you live with vibrancy and luxury, if you want it, take it. They advocate for vengeance instead of turning the other cheek; pride and freedom to find out for yourself who you are and what your individual purpose in life is. Satanists are their own gods. LaVey says, in the Satanic Bible, “Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling.
(Gn 6:14-19) For 40 days it rains; a great flood covers the earth and “everything that moved on earth perished” except for Noah and everyone with him on the ark. (Gn 7:23) After the waters recede Noah builds an altar and sacrifices burnt offerings to the God of Israel, who smells the pleasing aroma of the sacrifices and vows to Noah and his family “never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done”. (Gn 8:20-21) The God of Israel uses the rainbow as a sign of this covenant never again to destroy the earth by flood. (Gn 9:12-16) He tells Noah to subdue the land and “be fruitful and multiply”. (Gn 8:16-17) Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk.