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The Creation of the World

reation of life and the role that God played; however, they compare when it comes to the purpose of a human beings life. These two accounts are considered very different but they are similar in the following manner. Any human being is considered a Homo sapien, meaning that we are the "intellectual beings of earth." In each account humans were created in the sense that they would bring goodness onto the earth. When God created humans, he saw them as an intelligent creature that would tend the fields and take care of all that he created. For that is why the Garden of Eden was fashioned into a place of utopia where everything was in harmony. It was in this place where Adam, meaning made from earth and Eve, meaning mother of all living persons were told to care for and maintain. Yet they committed original sin by eating fruit from a forbidden tree, just like people commit sin everyday. Regarding the Old Testament and New Testament there were some differences and similarities. In the Old Testament the Jewish people did not perceive God as creator, instead they saw his as a savior. They viewed creation as God giving us salvation, which can be seen in the one hundred and fifty psalms. Unlike the Old Testament, the Jewish people in the New Testament believed that Christ was indeed the Lord of creation, and he was the one who made it possible for us to become who and what we are today. It is in the New Testament that God sends a man named John to tell people about the light, or incarnation. Karl Rahner stated that even if people had not sinned, Jesus (Locos) would have still reincarnated himself, for he wanted to complete creation.In the theology of creation and eco-spirituality God alone is uncreated. He was free to create or not create, which to him creation was an act of love. As far as God was concerned creation was an ongoing process and he was constantly keeping it progressing. There were two councils, the Council of Flore...

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