Quotes about Creation

We are born makers. We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

A beautiful life does not just happen; it is built.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

The literary framework view not only avoids this problem but actually explains it. The order of the days is not meant to reflect the chronology of creation. It is rather meant to express thematically the problems of darkness, watery abyss, formlessness, and void expressed in Genesis 1:2. 4.

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

Rather, it provided a literary framework within which the author could effectively express the Hebraic conviction that one God created the world by bringing order out of chaos. He was interested in thematic rather than chronological organization.

The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we therefore take as scientific fact the story that the world was created in six days, thus making a nonsense of observable data?

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.