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| | Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Another difficulty in recognizing Biblical cosmology is that at times the Bible condemns as apostasy beliefs such as the worship of the sun, moon, planets and stars, cosmology derived from other religions and not from the Bible. | | | The Catholic Church and many other mainline Christian denominations accepts modern cosmology as acceptably in concord with interpretations of the Bible that are more allegorical than literal. | | | There are also a limited number of radical creationists who believe that strict modern geocentrism or even a flat earth are the only acceptable cosmological arrangements in concord with the bible, though their numbers are vanishingly small and their arguments are rejected by the majority of creationists. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_cosmology
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| | Religious cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some religious cosmologies have their basis in the teachings of particular religions or religious texts, whereas others are more general reactions to the perceived difficulties in explaining the entire universe without the actions of a planning / coordinating intelligence. | | | Cosmologies from these religions were based on the notion that the universe started at a finite point in the recent past. | | | Religious cosmologies are ways of explaining the history and evolution of the universe based, at least in part, on the acceptance of principles that cannot or need not be justified on the basis of accepted scientific arguments (See also: physical cosmology). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_cosmology
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| | Biblical Cosmology |
| | We must start there, for it is crucial that we understand the cosmology of the Bible if we are to understand the worldview from which the Bible was written and from which its God and doctrines derive. | | | The entire Christian religion, or most of its mythology at any rate, is built upon the primitive cosmology of the Bible. | | | "The cosmology of the ancient Semites can be determined from a number of sources, most notably by comparison with the Babylonian and Sumerian myths (see the Sumerian Mythology FAQ). |
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http://www.religionisbullshit.org/biblical_cosmology.htm
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| | Was Bible Cosmology Revised? FAQ |
| | The corruption of the Bible's cosmology in the hellenistic period is understood from an interpretation of the cryptic language of Daniel's vision described in chapter 8, which indicates that the main revisions in the Bible's cosmology were initiated by Antiochus IV. | | | The cosmology was revised, and the Bible scholars and critics missed it. | | | The revision of many of the cosmological passages in the OT, which continued for many years, was intended to make the cosmology of the OT fit hellenistic ideas about cosmology including geocentricism, a stationary earth, and a rigid rotating heaven or 'firmament' that the Greeks identified with Zeus. |
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http://vinyl2.sentex.ca/~tcc/FAQ/FAQ_RBC.html
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| | PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES ON COSMOLOGY |
| | Nevertheless, there are biblical statements about the physical world and thus there are overlapping scientific and religious views regarding the nature of the physical world. | | | The purely religious view is avoided because it tends to produce a dualistic view that implies the physical aspects of life are irrelevant to spiritual concerns and vice versa. | | | To properly address conflicts between biblical and scientific cosmologies one must establish if a proper relationship between theology and science exists and, if so, the relationship must be defined. |
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http://www.xenos.org/essays/cosmos1.htm
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| | The mystery rather was that Christians were by faith lifted up to share in the powers of the age to come through the ministry of the Spirit of the risen Christ in their midst. | | | When it comes to ethics this surely means that texts must be understood and applied in a way that is consistent with the biblical doctrine of the dignity of humankind and the priority of love which Jesus himself defined as the hermeneutic key to the moral law. | | | And once again it would ultimately be the biblical interpretations of the Church, rather than the theories of the scientists, which would be forced to change. |
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http://www.royclements.co.uk/essays03.htm
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| | Interpretations of Biblical Cosmology |
| | That is not spherical-earth language, as the Biblical scholar E. Young has pointed out, Isaiah 40:22 describes God as seated on the zenith, the highest point directly overhead.~ Thus the verse implies that "earth's dwellers," "all mankind" according to Ps 33:13, 14, are clearly visible from a very high point directly overhead. | | | The Biblical Heavens of Hebrew scripture give us insight into the ancient mind, and the belief in a geocentric universe, flat earth and a heaven that lay directly above all the inhabitants earth. | | | The ancient belief of Biblical writers and their view about the 'heavens' and earth. |
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http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/geocentrism/cosmology.html
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| | The Flat-Earth Bible. |
| | The cosmology previously described is derived from the Bible itself, following the 19th century flat-earthers. | | | While the idea and scriptures are certainly consistent with the flat-earth cosmology, they could (for instance) refer to openings in a spherical shell surrounding a spherical earth. | | | On the other hand, the flat-earth cosmology previously described is historically consistent and requires none of the special pleading apparently necessary to harmonize the Bible with sphericity. |
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http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm
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| | CSSHS Archives - v16n4p17.htm |
| | The adherents of this movement deny biblical creation and see the world as one with "god." Its world view is monistic and pantheistic. | | | Monistic ideal- ism and monistic materialism are but the branches of the same root, monism, which is the denial of biblical creation and its transcendent God. | | | Help and guidance from a deity beyond this world-the God of biblical creation ex nihilo-is ruled out. |
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http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v16n4p17.htm
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| | PSCF March 1996 Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony by Meredith G. Kline |
| | Central in biblical revelation is the relationship of God, whose dwelling place is heaven's glory (Ps. | | | In this article I have advocated an interpretation of biblical cosmogony according to which Scripture is open to the current scientific view of a very old universe and, in that respect, does not discountenance the theory of the evolutionary origin of man. | | | It is rather a matter of two-register cosmology and an archetype-ectype relationship between the entire two registers in both their spatial and temporal dimensions. |
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http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF3-96Kline.html
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| | Biblical Cosmology |
| | Other than demonstrating the greatness of God, as can be seen in the 8th, 19th and 104th Psalms the references to the heavens are rather sparse and generally not theologically significant. | | | The first chapter of Genesis pretty much states the cosmology of the Bible. | | | Within these two great faiths there are various denominations that interpret the Bible differently. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bmoler/biblcosm.htm
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| | Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities |
| | Proving that certain biblical authors taught the earth to be flat does not establish that the earth is flat--and people who spend a lot of time and energy demonstrating that biblical authors so taught only succeed in discrediting themselves and the Bible. | | | Such views of the Bible, of course, are quite contradictory, but what no educated person would deny is that in dealing with these texts, from ancient historical contexts and distant cultures (written originally in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek), careful interpretation is essential. | | | In the struggle against oppressive heterosexist ideologies, homophobia, and violence against sexual minorities, eventually, the exegetical approach to the disputed biblical texts (suggesting alternative interpretations) will prove convincing to everyone, as they now are to many biblical scholars who have researched and written books in this area. |
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http://www.othersheep.org/hermeneu_tic.htm
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| | Cosmology and Religion |
| | Hence apologists for Biblical literalism have made detailed justifications based on the original language for the phrase that just serve to weaken the idea that the Bible, whether in the original or especially in translation, should be taken literally. | | | Some people claim that Biblical prophecies prove the Holy nature of the Bible. | | | In this article a minor part of my remarks to Glanz are quoted, regarding a misguided attempt to use General Relativity to explain the discrepancy between the 12 billion year age of the Universe and the Young Earth Creationists' 6000 year age for the Earth. |
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http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo-religion.html
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| | Genesis & Origins |
| | All the same, when we recognise that biblical cosmology is pre-scientific, and that Genesis 1 is based on this cosmology, we must acknowledge the fact that the Genesis 1 creation account will not paint a picture of the physical universe that is scientifically accurate in all its details. | | | The cosmology and chronology of Genesis 1 are quite obviously intertwined. | | | We have now examined the three regions of biblical cosmology and their places within the creation account of Genesis 1. |
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http://www.users.bigpond.com/jmjdk/jereth/genesis&origins/nonhistorical_evidence.html
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| | James Meritt's General Anti-Creationism FAQ: The Bible |
| | And in several places in the Bible, the sky is referred to as a vault, with the stars stuck on it. | | | The first biblical account of creation may be found in Genesis 1:1-2:4a. | | | In all fairness to the writers of the Bible, none of this cosmology is any worse than the cosmological pictures developed by surrounding peoples, with one exception. |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-meritt/bible.html
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| | Higgaion: Yesterday in Religion 101: "Biblical and Other Creation Stories" |
| | Meditations on biblical studies, church life, and any other topics I find to be of spiritual interest. | | | The Friday, September 9, 2005 session of Religion 101 was dedicated to considering "biblical and other creation stories." The students' reading assignments were Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Psalm 74, Psalm 89, the Hymn to Ptah, and my own summaries of Enuma Elish and the Memphite Theology. | | | On the other hand, I had hoped that seeing how "biblical creation faith" might be related to other concepts in a broad ancient Near Eastern milieu might help them think about some simple theological strategies for thinking through the modern debates. |
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http://www.heardworld.com/higgaion/2005/09/yesterday-in-religion-101-biblical-and.html
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| | Geocentrism and Creation |
| | Unfortunately, Church leaders interpreted certain Biblical passages as geocentric to bolster the argument for what science of the day was claiming. | | | These people believe that the Bible clearly states that the Earth does not move, and hence the only acceptable Biblical cosmology is a geocentric one. | | | Bouw frequently chides those who disagree with him on Biblical passages that speak of the rising of the Sun by claiming that they accuse God of being a poor communicator. |
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/geocentrism.asp
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| | Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg Show |
| | Nor were such ideas established biblically, for they rested on simplistic exegesis of one or two verses. | | | Some people cling to their nonscientific rationale for rejecting big bang cosmology; others cling to theologically unsound reasons for rejecting its parallel in biblical cosmology. | | | Skeptics and atheists could then claim a reasonable excuse for their resistance to faith in Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0304W2RBB.htm
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| | Heresy in the Apostolic Church (No. 89) |
| | This seems to have arisen because the cosmology apprehended in the New Testament Churches was misunderstood by the later post-Nicean theology. | | | The epistle to the Colossians is an important text for understanding the original cosmology of the New Testament Church. | | | The argument for the error concerning Christ as God was experienced by John and caused the schism in the churches he established. |
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http://www.logon.org/english/S/p089.html
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| | A Biblical Cosmogony |
| | We are so used to hearing of a materialistic, humanistic world view that we can not apply the spiritual power that is available when we completely understand God's world in God's cosmology. | | | It is time that God's people began once again to see and understand His world in a proper biblical model. | | | Once you begin to live in His real world, you will have spiritual power to slow some of the speeders and give them time to smell God's roses and hear of His free offer of salvation. |
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http://www.tulipacademy.org/cosmo/jer10a.htm
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| | Alcaide's Cafe: Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein, & A Biblical Cosmology! |
| | Until the Judeo-Christian theology came along, until the western culture accepted the biblical worldview, there could be no science, as we know it today. | | | And the apparent “increasing expansion” of the universe, and the apparent “rushing out into oblivion” of all the objects embedded in spacetime, is no more than the stretching out of the spacetime fabric to the boundaries which are implied in the biblical phrase: “God stretched forth the universe”. | | | Several times the Bible says God stretched forth the universe, when he created it. |
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http://www.alcaidecafe.com/archives/000072.html
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| | CHRISTIAN TRACTATUS - SECTION 13 |
| | The Biblical writers definitely seem to assume the possibility of interaction with this realm in physical terms. | | | 13.4.2 It would be a mistake to read all the ramifications of the pre-Copernican mediaeval or Ptolomaic cosmology into the Bible, but it seems unlikely that the Biblical cosmology is the same as that of modern science. | | | Throughout, it must be remembered that the Bible has as much right to a hearing as any other ancient source, which are themselves to be expected to show bias and selectivity in the events they record. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~theotodman/tract13.htm
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| | Is Heaven The Sky? |
| | The biblical authors were men of their time, and they lived, quite literally, in the world of their time. | | | He is in the impossible position of trying to make the Bible the norm and source of his beliefs, on the one hand, and yet to keep the Bible seeming believable by the standards of modern knowledge on the other. | | | He cannot bring himself to deny what modern instruments have shown to be the truth of cosmology, so he cannot believe the world looks as described in scripture, but neither can he bring himself to admit that the Bible is mistaken. |
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http://www.infidelguy.com/heaven_sky.htm
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| | SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN BIBLICAL COSMOLOGY |
| | There are two principal tenets of biblical cosmology:Footnote1(1) the physical universe had a beginning and (2) the physical universe was created ex nihilo. | | | These schools of thought are represented by the following views (some of which are incoherent but nevertheless included here for completeness). | | | These elements of the traditional doctrine of creation fall in to three categories: temporal, ontological, and theological. |
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http://www.xenos.org/essays/cosmos3.htm
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| | A Biblical/Theological Case for Basic Sustenance for All |
| | Arguments to the contrary would need to show that either there is not any discernible biblical teaching or mandate on this subject, or it is God& will that some people do not have sustenance sufficient for their basic needs. | | | As biblical scholar Juan Alfaro states regarding Canaan, “The land was to be a ‘sacrament’ of the liberation received, and the place where the ideals of the Covenant would become a theological, political, and socioeconomic reality.” | | | The various types of justice promoted in Scripture are in and of themselves good, but they also serve as means by which the kingdom of God is made manifest. |
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http://www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/new/article.php?id=12
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| | An Examination of Biblical Creation Theories |
| | One of the most interesting areas of biblical investigation has to do with the origin of the universe. | | | While the following information falls outside the area of biblical studies, the simple fact is that if evolution is true then the Bible isn’t (literally) true. | | | Using this method, Bishop James Ussher (1581-1656) dated creation at 4004 B.C. Bishop Ussher’s chronology was so widely accepted that his dates appeared in the margins of many Bibles until very recently. |
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http://www.biblicalreader.com/btr/creation_theories.htm
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| | Granberg, Lars I. psychology phychoanalysis religion Freud anti-Christian views accommodation 19.3 9/67 90 92 a Science and the Infallibility of the Bible Mavrodes, George I. Biblical studies hermeneutics philosophy theology Bible inerrancy errors 19.3 9/67 92 93 c Teilhard de Chardin [re. | | | 'The Relationship Between the Bible and Science' by Bube, 21.4] Seely, Paul H. theology science Biblical studies truth Bible science inerrancy knowledge revelation interpretation faith spirituality Christ commitment integration 23.1 3/71 27 27 c [re. | | | 'The relationship Between the Bible and Science' by Bube, Dye, David L. + theology science Biblical studies evangelicalism Bible inspiration integration accommodation faith levels complementarity inerrancy Christ commitment 23.1 3/71 27 27 c More on Harold Hill and Joshua's Long Day Nieboer, M.C. et al. |
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http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCFdatabase/ASA1-46A.TXT
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| | Beliefs in the Earth's age |
| | The earliest event in the Bible that can be dated with reasonable certainty is the beginning of Saul's reign as the first king of Israel. | | | There is a further complexity introduced by the creation story in Genesis itself. | | | The creation stories in the Bible start at Genesis 1:1. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_date.htm
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| | C |
| | God's people are to live by every word of God (Matthew 4:4) and to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ" (II Corinthians 10:5). | | | In our world today many Christians have rejected this teaching and have abandoned the biblical sense of the word preferring to use the term born-again. | | | For your information, some folks get quite upset over this issue as they see it as a symbolic rejection of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.bibarch.com/glossary/C.html
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| | The Official Graham Hancock Website: Forum |
| | The Bible’s Hidden Cosmology is an enquiry into the links between the bible and ancient cosmology. | | | Over the centuries, many aspects of it have been ignored or dangerously distorted by historical Christianity, which has tended to emphasise an inward looking, church centred understanding of religion rather than a creation centred, cosmic one, with potentially tragic consequences. | | | By cosmology I mean the way in which biblical writers and their contemporaries viewed the universe and how that view affected their faith in God. |
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http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/GStrachan1.php
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| | Does the Bible teach that the Earth is flat? |
| | It must be admitted outright that SOME of the items listed here COULD be interpreted as giving a false cosmology - but it is also possible to interpret them other ways. | | | The Bible lacks specifics in this regard (i.e., precise distances and descriptions - as were often offered up by the pagans), and so leaves the answer, "Does the Bible teach bad cosmology?", quite ambiguous in a few places. | | | At the time the book of Job was written there was no theory of gravity, no knowledge of a spherical earth, and no knowledge of water vapor. |
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http://www.tektonics.org/af/earthshape.html
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| | Bible |
| | Introduction to major issues and movements relating to the formation, transmission, translation, and interpretation of Hebrew Scripture. | | | Literary Approaches to Biblical Metaphor in the Spanish Exegetical Tradition | | | Implications for Jewish biblical hermeneutics: literary nature of Scripture, the role of peshat as opposed to other layers of meaning in Scripture. |
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http://www.yu.edu/revel/bible.htm
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| | OkriThemes |
| | See "Yoruba Cosmology" [Handout] and "Notes Toward A Biblical Model of Supernatural and Demons" | | | What do they reveal about Azaro, his world, his family? | | | How do the characters seek to balance, manage, or placate supernatural forces in the book? |
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http://www.dbu.edu/mitchell/okrithem.htm
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| | Table of contents for The mythic mind |
| | Table of contents for The mythic mind : essays on cosmology and religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament literature / N. Wyatt. | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004021008.html
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| | Physics Topic: The Theology of Creation |
| | Finally, the parousia will bring about a "new heaven and a new earth" as promised to the prophets (2 Peter 3:13; Rev. | | | During the early history of the church, theologians fashioned a doctrine of creation using Biblical, philosophical, theological and liturgical tools. | | | Genesis 1:1 in particular was frequently regarded literally as referring to the creation of the world at a finite time in the past. |
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http://www.meta-library.net/physics/creat-body.html
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| | COSMOLOGY. A study of Biblical cosmology. |
| | This became basis of "cosmological" argument for God's existence. | | | Gen. 1:1 - "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" | | | C. In this study we are using "cosmology" for both created world/order, and more specifically |
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http://www.christinyou.net/pages/cosmology.html
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| | Creationist Cultists: By their own words |
| | "It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. | | | "There are a number of Biblical references indicating that in some way the stars may actually participate in human battles Numbers 24:17; Judges 5:20; Revelation 6:13; 8:10; etc.).... | | | Perhaps they reflect some kind of heavenly catastrophe associated either with Satan's primeval rebellion or his continuing battle against Michael and his angels..." |
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http://www.skeptictank.org/crewords.htm
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| | Galileo |
| | To salve his ego, Urban ordered that Galileo be made to recant on his knees as "vehemently suspected of heresy." Galileo, now 68, spent the remainder of his life under house arrest, lest the truth escape its biblical prison. | | | Urban was almost gleeful in his abuse of the ailing and nearly-blind Galileo. | | | But Florence was more in love with literature, so Galileo moved north to teach at Padua University. |
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http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0215a-almanac.htm
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| | Biblical cosmology - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Biblical cosmology" is defined. | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word Biblical cosmology: |
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| | CREATION (in MARION) |
| | Creation -- Biblical teaching -- Early works to 1800. | | | Click on any of the following to start a new search: |
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