List the Three Christian Views of Creation

Topic 2 Review This topic review is a tool designed to prepare students for the Topic 2 Quiz. Instructors will grade the topic review for completion. Save the topic review to your computer and submit when complete. When completing this review, answers should be in your own words or quoted with quotation marks, and be drawn from one of the course readings (textbook and lecture referenced below), or other sources listed in the syllabus. Outside sources, including internet sites, are not acceptable. When quoting and paraphrasing, include all authors' last names for citations that have multiple authors. For quoted citations, be sure to include the page or paragraph number(s). The quiz will be graded for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this topic review before you attempt the quiz. Once you start the quiz, do not exit the quiz until the entire quiz is completed. Exiting out of the quiz before it is complete may result in a zero grade. Please type your answers below each question. 1. List the three Christian views of creation, as given in the lecture, and a brief description of each. Young Earth View – This view beliefs in the biblical creation account that the universe was created by God in six 24 hours days. Old Earth View – Beliefs in the biblical creation account, but beliefs that the creation days tool longer periods of time. This view agrees with mainstream science that the universe and earth are billions of years old. Theistic Elevation View – This view beliefs that life evolved as mainstream scientist say, but was directed by God. 2. The concept that humanity is created in the image of God may refer to a number of things. List four things: two covered in the textbook and two covered in the lecture. - Created to have domain over the earth. - Created to have free will. - Created to worship, and have a relationship with God. - Created to be like God, in his image. 3. What are the similarities between the scenes in Revelation 21:1-4 and the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2? In both scenes God’s presence is with his people, and he is living with his people. It is fitting that at the start of creation God was there with his people, and at restoration God will be with his people. . 4. According to the lecture, what is meant when we say God is sovereign? God has supreme authority over everything. 5. List at least five characteristics of God emphasized in Psalm 145. Five characteristics of God are gracious, compassion, slow to anger, faithful, rich in love. 6. List three reasons for seeing humanity as the pinnacle of God’s creation. - When humanity was created during creation. Humanity was made on the last day; it was the period in the statement. - The amount narrative space that the creation of humanity takes up. - God creating humanity in his own image shows God’s special relationship to humanity. 7. How does the textbook describe the Garden of Eden? In the textbook the Garden of Eden is described as a temple like place that God dwelled with his people. The Garden shares characteristics with tabernacles and temples found in the history of Israel. 8. How would you describe the nature of work God gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden? Work was not supposed to be punishment. It was intended from when humanity was created that humanity would work. Adam was given domain over the earth, and was to keep the garden. He was designed to work, and serve God. 9. Summarize Proverbs 9:10. You cannot have wisdom without respecting the Lord, and you cannot have understanding if you do not have a relationship with God. 10. Summarize God’s statements in Genesis 2:16-18. God told Adam he could eat the fruit from any tree in the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Then God said it is not good for man to be alone, and made a help mate for him. 11. What does the textbook say about the involvement of the Trinity in creation? The Trinity was all present during creation. The Father oversaw all of creation, all things were made through Jesus, and the Spirit was present in the creation narrative. 12. List the four basic “acts” of the overarching biblical story. - Creation Fall Redemption Restoration 2