Describe Christian beliefs about the creation of the world.

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Describe Christian beliefs about the creation of the world

Christian belief about the creation of the world is based on the first chapter of Genesis, where God is said to have created the world out of nothing (ex nihilo) in six days. He created everything in a specific order on separate days, and then rested on the seventh day when his work was complete.

Within Christianity, there are many different denominations with their own views about how the world was created. Fundamentalist (or literalist) Christians believe that God created the world in six days, and he rested on the seventh day. They believe that everything was created exactly as stated in the Bible – i.e. that the birds, fish, animals and humans were created separately and in their present forms. For this reason, Fundamentalist Christians refuse to accept scientific theories about the creation of the world, such as Charles Darwin’s theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

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        However, most other Christians (liberal Christians) believe that the account of creation in the book of Genesis is a myth or “dumbed down” version of how the world was created, and that it was written for earlier peoples who didn’t have the scientific knowledge to understand the actual processes behind the creation of the world. These Christians believe that when the Bible says that the world was created in “six days”, a “day” may be a loose term meaning a geological period, or 100 million years, for example. Liberal Christians often fit scientific ideas about the creation of the world ...

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