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The creation stories

The creation stories. By Aaron and Brett. Egyptian creation myth. The Egyptian creation story begins with the dark swirl of chaos. Atum, who had risen from water, created himself using his thoughts He began to create the earth He had no gender His all seeing eye roamed the universe

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The creation stories

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  1. The creation stories By Aaron and Brett

  2. Egyptian creation myth • The Egyptian creation story begins with the dark swirl of chaos. • Atum, who had risen from water, created himself using his thoughts • He began to create the earth • He had no gender • His all seeing eye roamed the universe • He joined with his shadow to produce as son and a daughter. • Atum spit out his son who was named shu and made him god of the air. • Atum vomited up his daughter named tefnut and made her goddess of the mist and moisture.

  3. Shu and Tefnut were given the responsibility of separating the chaos, and installing the principles of law: order and stability. • The chaos was divided into light and dark and was set into place. • The order was called Maat and it formed the principles of life for all time • Maat was a feather. it was light and pure. • Shu and tefnut produced geb. The earth and nut the sky. At first these two were tangled as one, so shu pushed nut up into the heavens. She would remain there over her mate. • Maat made them stay apart, so they would fulfill their functions • Nut produced rain for Geb, and Geb made things grow on earth

  4. She gave birth to the sun everyday before dawn and it would die at sun down • Shu and tefnut produced the other six gods • Shaos still lived and in turn shu and tefnut got lost in the dark waters of nu • Atum sent his all seeing eye to find his children. • They returned and Atum cried tears of joy which turned into the first people • The people had to uphold the truth and balance of Maat they had to tend to the earth and worship the gods • The gods in turn protected and loved their creations

  5. Bible Beginning story • In the beginning God created heaven and Earth • He made it out of nothing by God at the beginning of time • God breathed breathed a human soul into Adam • All creation comes from Adam and Eve • Adam and Eve sinned against God

  6. What are the similarities between the myth and the creation story in Genesis? How have these myths influenced the biblical story of creation? • Both began with a person that made others. They use their power to make earth. They both created humans • They haven’t. The stories are not closely related

  7. What is the significance of the sabbath, the seventh day? • In our culture we celebrate the Sabbath (or the seventh day) , in other cultures such as the Egyptian faith does not celebrate the seventh day

  8. What does it mean to be “Created in the image of God”? • To be created in the image of god to to be made in the likeness of him. That means no matter how good or how bad you look you will always be made just like God wanted you to.

  9. What does the CCC say about the truths of creation? • It means because God made you, you are a human and have all rights of a human.

  10. Genesis describes “The Fall”. How is this story of “Spiritual Death”? • It’s the fall from grace when Adam and Eve ate the apple from the forbidden tree of knowledge

  11. What is Protoevangelium? • The annoucement of a future redeemer to Adam and Eve after their Fall. Greek for “first Gospel.”

  12. What are the effects or original sin? • When we carry out God’s wish for us to be Fruitful, and childbirth will be painful. Our family life will still be an image of God’s love but relationships could be married by sin

  13. What does the church teach about the relationship between Creation and Evolution? • God created us and everything else out of nothing. Humans were made special by God and they are descendants from Adam

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