1) Worship the Creator, not the creatures (1st Commanment). This is an
amazing teaching in view of the pantheistic and panentheistic societies during
the time Gen1&2 is believed to have been written.
2) There is a suernatural beginning of space-time, energy-matter, and Life
3) Man and Woman are "special" creations
4) Institution of the Sabbath. WORK Six days and rest One. This illustrate
knowledge of moon-months -> a calender
5) Original Sin
6) The ProtEvangel is given
7) The Spirit of God is the ultimate source of order in chaotic nature
8) The Stars are given useful applications
9) First scientific work by Adam: Taxonomy, the naming of species.
10) ................. many many many mores.
> Re: Creationists?
>
> Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@UNCWIL.EDU)
> Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:00:42 -0500 (EST)
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Many of you were kind enough to write to me as well as to the net regarding
> my question concerning the meaning of the word "creationists." I have found
> all the answers very useful. I should like to indicate my own views on
> Genesis 1-2.
>
> The Bible is NOT a scientific text. However, the day we know exactly what
> happened in the past, then we will realize that what Genesis says is
> consistent with it. The main truth I find in Genesis is that there is a
> Creator---an Intelligent Designer. Remember that questions about origins or
> whatever else happened in the past may not be truly scientific
> questions---for all I know they may be purely historical questions.
> Therefore, the answer we find in Genesis regarding origins may not please
> all scientists; but the question of origins may not have been a scientific
> question to begin with. Of course, you can assume that a particular question
> is a scientific question and proceed with it, but that is a working
> assumption and should not be used as a proof that the question is indeed
> within the domains of science.
>
> I may have borrowed the above view on Genesis from the view Isaac Newton had
> on the Book of Revelations. Newton said that we must study the Book of
> Revelations not in order to make predications of future event, but to know
> that such apocalyptic events were already mentioned in Scripture after they
> actually happen.
>
> Moorad