First Account Of Creation
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A Brief Analysis of “The First Account of Creation”
The myth “The First Account of Creation” describes the story presented in the Biblical book of Genesis, in which God creates the world (sky, water, land) and everything in the world, including plants, animals, and people. The myth is focused on several key ideas, primarily that God is the creator of everything and is responsible for dictating what his creation can do in order to survive (multiply; eat plants). This essay will briefly examine these key points in order to gain a basic understanding of this particular (and popular) creation myth.
The first and most important point of “The First Account of Creation” is that God is the absolute creator of everything, beginning with the heavens (presumably that means the sky) and the earth. God then proceeds to create both light and darkness, which he calls day and night respectively; by doing this, he has created the first day (REFERENCE). Following this, there is an interesting point during which God creates a vault in the waters in order to separate the waters into two. According to the myth, God calls the vault “heaven” (REFERENCE). …show more content…
The myth indicates that, in the beginning, “God’s spirit hovered over the water” (REFERENCE). This creates the image of a singular being, a notion that is further emphasized when the myth refers to God as “he.” However, when God prepares to create people, he interestingly states “let us [emphasis added] make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves” (REFERENCE). This would seem to suggest that God is not a singular being, but has a dual nature, and this is reiterated when God “created them; male and female he created them” (REFERENCE). Thus, it can be assumed that God has both male and female aspects which he chose to reveal by creating both male and female
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A Brief Analysis of “The First Account of Creation”
The myth “The First Account of Creation” describes the story presented in the Biblical book of Genesis, in which God creates the world (sky, water, land) and everything in the world, including plants, animals, and people. The myth is focused on several key ideas, primarily that God is the creator of everything and is responsible for dictating what his creation can do in order to survive (multiply; eat plants). This essay will briefly examine these key points in order to gain a basic understanding of this particular (and popular) creation myth.
The first and most important point of “The First Account of Creation” is that God is the absolute creator of everything, beginning with the heavens (presumably that means the sky) and the earth. God then proceeds to create both light and darkness, which he calls day and night respectively; by doing this, he has created the first day (REFERENCE). Following this, there is an interesting point during which God creates a vault in the waters in order to separate the waters into two. According to the myth, God calls the vault “heaven” (REFERENCE). …show more content…
The myth indicates that, in the beginning, “God’s spirit hovered over the water” (REFERENCE). This creates the image of a singular being, a notion that is further emphasized when the myth refers to God as “he.” However, when God prepares to create people, he interestingly states “let us [emphasis added] make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves” (REFERENCE). This would seem to suggest that God is not a singular being, but has a dual nature, and this is reiterated when God “created them; male and female he created them” (REFERENCE). Thus, it can be assumed that God has both male and female aspects which he chose to reveal by creating both male and female