Religion, Creation Stories, and Creation Myths Essay -- Theology Relig

Religion, Creation Stories, and Creation Myths One of the fundamental questions that religions seek to answer is that of origin. How was man draw on earth? Why and from what was he created? Who created him? What does his creation imply about the status of human beings? Some or all of these questions are answered by a religions creation stories. Every religions creation myths attempt to give solutions to problems present to that religious society. Because of this, each religion may sop up one or more creation stories, each of those different from one another in the questions they ask and the answers they give.Genesis In the Western world, the most known creation story is in Genesis (Myth A), in the Old Testament of the Bible. Surprisingly, even the Bible does not relate only a single forecast of Creation. In the book of Genesis itself, one can find two versions of the Creation of the world that are similar in idea, but different in content and detail. The story in Genesis I claims that God created the world and everything comprising it in six days. On the first day, God created Day and Night. Next came Sky, therefore Earth, and and then Stars and Sun on the fourth. The fifth day was used to create water and sky dwelling creatures, and finally, on the sixth day, God created all the animals of Earth, conclusion with mankind. In this version of the creation story, God created man and woman together, on the sixth day. The seventh day was Sabbath, saved for rest. However, another version of Creation exists in Genesis II, which relates the more popular story of Adam and Eve. Genesis II starts by telling how God rested on the seventh day and then goes into elaboration of the creation of mankind. This seems to imply ... ...telligent species in the universe. We cannot possibly fathom what plan this higher power has, or even if a plan exists, and any attempts to do so would be futile. Instead, we must live this life doing what we believe to be true and right, ideas we ourselves created and so only we can live by. Works CitedDeussen, Paul. The Philosophy of the Upanishads. novel York Dover Punblications, 1966. Eliade, Mircea. Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World. New York HarperCollins Publishers, 1967Freund, Philip. Myths of Creation. New York Washington Square Press, 1965.Heidel, Alexander. The Babylonian Genesis. 2nd ed. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1954.The Holy Bible. pouf James Version. Salt Lake City The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 2000.The Rig Veda An Anthology. Betty Radice, ed. London Penquin Books, Ltd, 1981.