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Creation Theol 1. God's act of bringing the universe into being 2. the universe as thus brought into being by God Creation Adam and Eve first man and woman. [O.T.: Genesis 1:26, 2:21–25] made man from flowing blood. [Islam: Koran, 96:2] primeval waters, origin of all things. [Babyl. Myth.: Leach, 68] goddess pinched man, Enkidu out of clay. [Assyrian Myth.: Gaster, 9, Babyl. Myth.: Gilgamesh] first man; created from ash tree. [Norse Myth.: Benét, 58] made man from primordial ocean clay. [Babyl. Myth.: Gaster, 9] first woman on earth. [Norse Myth.: Benét, 58] living man created by a physiology student from body parts. [Br. Lit.: Mary Shelley Frankenstein] Old Testament book dealing with world’s creation. [O.T.: Genesis] created the world in six days. [O.T.: Genesis 1] mass produces everything, including human beings. [Br. Lit.: Brave New World] ram god, created man from clay on potter’s wheel. [Egypt. Rel.: Parrinder, 155] molded man of clay, animated him with fire. [Gk. Myth.: Wheeler, 304]
Lord of creation; danced to begin life. [Hinduism: Binder, 23] the the creator and destroyer of the universe, depicted primarily as an artist detached from it. [Sci. FL: Stapledon Star Maker in Weiss, 248] molded man from clay. [Aztec Myth.: Gaster, 18] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| From a simple duet played with a close friend arose that feeling of concert, of creational well-being that musicians know that lifts up bodies and minds. Yahweh's victory over his enemies is often expressed in creational chaos-defeating language characteristic of the divine-warrior hymns of early Israel (cf. October 2003) is not an "error to be eradicated" as a consequence of incompetence or misinformation by the 80 bishops in plenary session in 1968; rather it is a libel of schism contradicting the creational order, honoured since creation up to the invention of mechanical, chemical, and surgical contraceptive means. |
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