Outline the teachings of Christianity and Islam about the creation of the world. What beliefs about the treatment of the environment can be drawn from these?

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Outline the teachings of Christianity and Islam about the creation of the world. What beliefs about the treatment of the environment can be drawn from these?

Both Christianity and Islam have creation stories in their holy books. The stories of how the world was created are similar in these two religions. In Christianity, the book of Genesis in the Bible tells of stories of the creation. In this part of the Bible it is said how God created the world in six days, from nothing, and rested on the seventh. This belief, which Christians hold, is very similar to that of Muslims. The holy book of Islam, the Qur’an, contains an account of creation saying how Allah created the heavens and the earth in six days and then settled Himself on the Throne.

The Bible says how after creating the earth, the sky, the seas and plants, God made birds and fish on the fifth day, and animals and humans on the sixth day. Christians believe that the stories in the Bible explain why God created the world, and how that relates to the way they should treat the world. Most Christians do not take the story of creation in the Bible literally, and accept the other theories for creation. Muslims believe that Allah created everything: the solar system, the Earth, the animals, plants and human beings. The Qur’an also mentions the reason of creation to be for people to serve Allah and that Allah maintains everything. Scientific theories do not affect Islamic views about the creation of the world, as Muslims believe that they explain what the Qur’an already teaches. However, theories such as the evolution theory are not accepted my Muslims. It is believed that Allah created apes in their own image, and humans were created as humans; not by evolution descending from apes.

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It is believed that all human beings descended from one original couple, Adam and Eve, who were created by God. This belief about how humans were created exists similarly, in both Christianity and Islam. The Qur’an says how a single soul was created by Allah and from that, its mate, and from the two spread widely many men and women. Genesis, in the Bible, says how ‘God created man in his own image, in the image of God’, male and female. This suggests that God may have made man to possibly resemble Himself. However in Islam, it is believed ...

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