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The Collationes in Hexaemeron ( Latin: [kɔllatsiɔnɛs in ɛksɛmɛɾɔn], Talks on the Six Days [of Creation]) are an unfinished series of theological lectures given by St. Bonaventure in Paris between Easter and Pentecost 1273. [ 1][ 2] They exist only in listeners' transcripts ( reportationes) handed down both in a shorter version ...
There is a "special creation" of each separate kind in six 24-hour days, starting a few thousand years ago. [ 5 ] In The Mystery of Life's Origin , Charles B. Thaxton argues for "Special Creation by a Creator beyond the Cosmos", and asserts that special creation holds "that the source that produced life was intelligent".
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [ a] of both Judaism and Christianity. [ 1] The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies ...
Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis.It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years).
Sabbath is given special status as a holy day at the very beginning of the Torah in Genesis 2:1-3. [15] It is first commanded after The Exodus from Egypt, in Exodus 16:26 [ 16 ] (relating to the cessation of manna ) and in Exodus 16:29 [ 17 ] (relating to the distance one may travel by foot on the Sabbath), as also in Exodus 20:8-11 [ 18 ] (as ...
Anno Mundi (from Latin "in the year of the world"; Hebrew: לבריאת העולם, romanized : Livryat haOlam, lit. 'to the creation of the world'), abbreviated as AM or A.M., or Year After Creation, [ 1] is a calendar era based on the biblical accounts of the creation of the world and subsequent history. Two such calendar eras have seen ...
Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish the "first day" of creation as falling on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox. [9] The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish calendar is Saturday—hence, Creation began on a Sunday.
Plot summary. The main character of the novel is the World Health Organization doctor John Mallory [1] who, six months after his arrival in Central Africa, finds that intense guerrilla activity has left him without patients. He devotes himself, instead, to the task of bringing water to the region, with dreams of setting the Sahara in flower.