AS: Philiosophy: Philosophy of Religion: Biblical Creation
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- God as Creator
- Biblical Creation
- Genesis 1
- World made in 6 days
- Transcendent + pre-existent
- Creation described as good
- Humans paramount
- Genesis 2
- Pre-existing matter
- God causes everything that exists to exist as it exists by his command
- Made man in his own image
- man given dominion + is steward to world
- Humans paramount
- Genesis 1
- God as the Craftsman
- Genesis 2 + 3
- Man from dust
- In Job 38 God described as designer who laid foundations of earth
- Creatio ex Nihilo
- Creation out of nothing
- Not found in Genesis however it is implied from God creating by word
- Biblical God VS Prime Mover
- Aristotle's God interested in world
- Prime mover is final cause
- Prime mover unchanging, transendant and impersonal
- Judeo Christian God loves and sustains the world
- Biblical God portrayed though anthropomorphic language
- Both see God as responsible
- Evaluation
- Belief in God challenged by science
- Biblical stories interpreted as symbolic gives a clearer message
- Biblical language can sometimes make God seem too human
- If God is craftsman then why are there so many faults?
- Biblical Creation
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