Describe the Christian Cosmology and the Cosmology of one other Religion

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JESSICA THEAKSTON

Describe the Christian Cosmology and the Cosmology of one other Religion

        The Christian cosmology, or the Creation story, can be found in the first chapter of the book of Genesis from the Bible. The story describes how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day.        On the first day, the Bible says that God created Heaven and the Earth. The world was dark so God then created light, which He separated from the dark. He called the light ‘day’ and the dark ‘night’. On the second day He said ‘Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water form water’. God separated one expanse of water from the other and he named the space that was left between the ‘Sky’.

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        On the third day God commanded the ‘water under the sky to be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear’. God named the dry ground that formed ‘Land’ and the water that had gathered he named the ‘Sea’. Next he commanded that the land produce vegetation that bears fruit and seeds. God created the Sun and the Moon and the Stars on the fourth day. He said ‘Let there be an expanse of sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years’. God made the Sun, ...

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