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True or False: The Abrahamic religions were the first to address the question of the origin of the universe in a religious way
False
True or False: In the Quran, the heavens and the earth were created in seven days
False
What was ONE of the parallels in the two creation stories and subsequent flood stories?
Either :
Accounts of flood stories
Cosmic order
Cosmic language
What type of translations were demanded for the Hebrew Bible?
Greek Translations
True or False: The big bang theory is another cosmological attempt to explain the origin of the universe
WHO points out that the human person is not a collection of properties to be scientifically analyzed, but a being-in-the-world-of-human-oppression
James Cone
What is the Hebrew title of the book?
Bereshit
When was the first creation account written?
It was written at the time of the exile
What is the name of the national God of the babylonians
Marduke
What was taken at the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eve
What was the great legacy of Mesopotamia
its creation of myths
False
What is the name of the women god created for the first man?
Eve
What are the names of the two sons of Cain
Enoch and Lamech
What is the Quran central message
all created realities come from God
Where were the four setting/places in the creation stories of Genesis?
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Israel
potential obedientialis was the human capacity to be open to WHO in a personal way
Why do muslims reject the Christian doctrine of Original Sin
The concept of original sin does not exist in Islam
How is everyone according to Muslims born?
born pure and sinless
What is the result of forgetfulness and failure to remember Gods instruction
Disobedience