Christian Creation Story

The story of the creation of the earth, or the Christian creation story is open to interpretation by many different religions world wide. It is written in the Bible that God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was "void and without form". This has been disputed and discussed by some of the greatest minds of our time as well as some of the most celebrated of our religious leaders, and no one seems to be able to agree on anything more than that they have differences of opinion.

The bottom line seems to be that the Christian creation story will not be believed by everyone, but for those who do accept it, it is a principle of their faith that all that we are, and all that we see was created by the hand of God, who gives all things.

The Bible tells us that God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.

This has also been interpreted by many different groups in many different ways. Standard old school Christians believe that the Bible literally means exactly what it says and that the story cannot be reconciled with scientific evidence of other things such as dinosaurs. Newer, more modern Christians see the creation story as something that could have taken place long before the dinosaur advent, or could well have been a story written to teach faith, but was not in fact a "true" story and the arguments rage on. Continuing with the actual biblical story of the creation of the world, the creation story continues in this vein:

God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 1 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

This aspect of the Christian creation story is interpreted by the fundamental Christian to mean that the hand of God created all things and gave them all life over the course of seven days, while others, who are more modernized in their thinking ask, why is it possible that God created the huge flying dinosaur type birds and they have evolved.