What is the creation story according to christians?

Answer 1

The detailed answer to this question can be found in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible: Genesis. In short, Christians believe that God (Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah, etc.) created the universe and everything that exists in six days, and that God rested on the seventh day.

1.) On the first day God created light and separated it from darkness. The light was called day and the dark was called night.

2.) On the second day God created the firmament (Heaven or Atmosphere) and separated it from the oceans.

3.) On the third day God created the land (it was divided from the seas) and vegetation was grown.

4.) On the fourth day God created the sun, moon, and stars to fill the sky. The sun was used to light the day and the moon was used to light the night.

5.) On the fifth day God created the sea creatures to fill the oceans, and the birds to fill the skies.

6.) On the sixth day God created the animals to fill the lands, and man was created as the pinnacle of creation; he was purposed to populate and subdue the earth.

7.) On the seventh day God rested from all His work.

*The length of each day is debated by theologians. Some believe the days are literal 24 hr. periods (Young-Earth), while others believe that each day is figurative, representing an unknown length of time (Old-Earth). This distinction does not affect the belief that one God created all that exists.

Answer 2

According to Christians, God created the universe and everything in it in six days. On the seventh day, God rested, establishing the concept of the Sabbath. This story is described in the Book of Genesis in The Bible.

Answer 3

11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

In other words God made absolutely everything there was to make. Heaven includes what we call the universe. 'All that in them is' also includes the microscopic world and anything else not mentioned specifically in the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2. For, while it is obvious that the Genesis 1 and 2 account is never intended to list absolutely everything it does intend to convey the meaning that God made everything. This idea is re-iterated in the post-exilic context of Nehemiah: 6Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. (emphasis mine)

The 'allness' of God's creation and care is re-iterated in the New Testament:

3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Answer 4

The Biblical creation story is actually two stories; chapter one (verses Genesis 1:1-1:31) is probably the most well known; starting with creating the Earth (and by implication water) then, in this order:

Light

The "firmanent"

Land (and seas)

Grass and seeds, other plants

Sun and moon (and as something of an afterthought, all the other stars!)

All creatures and man

Chapter 2 of Genesis gives another story (Genesis 2:5-2:7), in that version, there is less detail, but man is created before plants (the argument seems to be that without man, there wouldn't be anyone to "till the soil").

Answer 5

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The creation story is all the difference between knowing that man was "specially" created by a loving caring God "in His image" with reason and purpose... or that man is a haphazard cosmic accident without rhyme, reason or purpose.

The story of creation is not a matter of religion. It's a sobering matter of, does mankind have any purpose for being... or are we all just stumbling through our accidental lives waiting to die?

Answer 6

Creation stories are narratives that explain how the world came to be. Often these stories involve deities physically creating the world and populating it with plants, animals, and human beings. Many major religions continue to use creation stories as part of their belief systems. At the other end of the spectrum, even the Australian Aborigines remember Creation in their 'Dreamtime' stories.

Answer 7

Creation-stories are those narratives which seek to describe how the universe came to be.

There are Creation-stories all over the world; tens of them if not hundreds. This is because the Creation was a tradition going all the way back and shared by all mankind. As time passed, most of these stories became infiltrated by idolatry, with a phantasmagoria of warring deities. It is the Torah, in Genesis, which preserves the original.

Answer 8

Day by day, God created the universe and everything in it (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30). Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1 states emphatically that this is a fundamental Jewish tradition.Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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Seeing God's wisdom

The Torah states that it was written in its entirety by one author, Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24), to whom it was dictated by God (Exodus 24:12), including earlier events.
The Torah has one creation-narrative, which takes the form of a summary (Genesis ch.1) followed by an in-depth recap (Rashi commentary, Genesis 2:8).
When we see a newspaper whose opening headline is paraphrased in the detailed story, we don't ascribe the repetition to different writers.

But this kind of literary device, which the Torah employs to enrich its text, has been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign and divide up its authorship.

The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of the literary devices used by the Torah, which include:

- recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,

- employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,

- using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,

- speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,

and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially attributing the narrative to several unknown authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim:

Refuting the JEPD Documentary Hypothesis

The creation-narrative in Genesis (a Christian author)

The authorship of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 9

The book of genesis gives the story of gods creation.

Answer 10

God created the world in 7 days but rested on the 7th day. He created a man and woman named Adam and Eve. And so on...