Tariq+Smith

 "In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia. Then Eros made them fall in love."-Greek Creation Myth "Christians believe that God created the world and all living things. They picture God as having three forms or aspects: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Hoy Spirit, who carries out God's will on earth. They believe that God sent Jesus to tell people about God's love, and that Jesus died to forgive humanity's sins. They also believe that Jesus will return at the end of time, when there will be a New Creation. The following creation story is found in Genesis 1 and 2 in the Old Testament section of the Bible, the Christian holy book."- Christian Creation Myth "Islam is the youngest of the three major one-god believing (monotheistic) religions in the world (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), which all originated in the Middle East. All three share the same basic creation myth. In Islam, as in the other two, a single all powerful god created nature out of nothingness and made all of nature subservient to humanity in six days. Adam was the first prophet, forgiven by a merciful god for his lapses. Each element of creation (all the people, the plants, the animals) reflects a specific set of divine rules and patterns. The created universe as a whole is well ordered, with no gaps or discontinuities, and everything is in its proper place. This very orderliness is itself proof of god."- Islamic Creation Myth


 * Introduction**

What do different religions believe? Why do the creation myths vary among religions. This makes everything seem unusual because when there are multiple views on a creation myth it makes everything so much more complex. The story of how people and other things came into existence is an everlasting wonder or myth. These myths vary from a meteor or to a man and some even say the Big Bang. All of these myths about the creation of man fool many of us and now I will try to go deeper into the questions about the creation myth and how they vary between some different religions.


 * Analysis

Me being a christian I actually do believe that God was the creator of all that is and all that ever was. If this is true, why do other religions such as Judaism and Catholicism have different branches of beliefs. Christianity is built solely on the holy scriptures. Christians believe that the bible is the one and only perfect thing in this world. Therefore many Christians live their life by the word of the bible. In a sense Christians, live breath and quote the bible in their everyday life. As you can see from these examples, the bible has a huge impact on the followers of Christianity.  Christians often express their gratitude for God creating the world in which they live in now. One way to express this is by prayer. Prayer can be done anywhere at any time. A way that prayer is performed is by bowing ones head and closing the eyes in a silent environment to speak with God. They tell God thank you for what he has done for the person and it makes the person feel good to know that they are thanking God for the favors he has done. **    ===This creation myth of the greeks is totally different from those such as Catholicism and Christianity. First of all there is not only one god. There are multiple gods such as Zeus and his sons Prometheus and Epimetheus. All these Gods have their own special powers and have contributed to the creation somehow to the greeks. Also these gods have powers that you can attribute to certain things such as if it rains they will attribute it to the rain God and so on and so forth. The creation myth for greeks all started with a bird who laid an egg and eventually that egg hatched and split into two parts. The bird called one part earth and the other part Uranus which is known as the sky. This myth differs from others mainly because of the fact of the Gods.===

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 ===Catholicism is extremely similar to Christianity. They both believe in one God and follow rules through the bible. Catholics believe that there is only one God and argue that he has revealed himself as the trinity. But on the other hand Christians believes in the Trinity of God. They also believe that there is only one true "God" while there are many other "gods" that the world serves. The catholic believe that salvation to eternal life is God’s will for all people. They state thatCatholicism is the original Christian Church. Christianity is the true religion and Catholics believe that sanctification and truth may be found in other religions also.===

=Conclusion= ===As you can see some of these religions are closely related and some aren’t. Some of these religions believe in one God and some believe in multiple Gods. Some religions don’t even believe in a God. Most religions background stories are different thus causing different creation myths. But one thing is similar throughout every religion creation myth and that thing is that they all prove that humans came on this earth for a reason and we should do the best we can while we are here.===