Download or read book Cosmology According to Biblical and Ancient Models written by Flavien Phanzu Mwaka and published by Librinova. This book was released on 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a textbook of religion, but rather the results of 10 years of research that led me to discover that the story of the biblical creation is true. This story comes to us from the papyrus and the author attributes all manifestations to the divine will. Putting God's name in evidence, and scientifically rendering each verse, I found myself with a scientific scheme similar to the Model of String, developed by the Italian physicist Gabriele Veneziano. This restitution of the biblical scheme of creation, I called it "the Universal Cosmological Model". At first I knew nothing about cosmology or astronomy. My curiosity to find out why the biblical scheme of creation was thrown away by scientists led me to research this story in depth. It made me discover that all the great structures that scientists have discovered and continue to discover about the universe have already been revealed in this biblical scheme of creation. In this first part, namely the introduction to the pre-Big-bang, we wanted to prepare scientists to understand the biblical language and non-scientists to understand the scientific language. This took us up to the fifth chapter. The discovery of structure from before Big-bang to Big-bang begins from chapter VI. I leave it to those in the field to judge for themselves the results of my research, which is spread over the other volumes of the collection of books "The Verses of the Scholars".

Download or read book Scripture and Cosmology written by Kyle Greenwood and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyle Greenwood introduces readers to ancient Near Eastern cosmology and the ways in which the Bible speaks within that context. He then traces the way the Bible was read through Aristotelian and Copernican cosmologies and discusses how its ancient conceptions should be understood in light of Scripture?s authority and contemporary science.

Download or read book Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology written by John H. Walton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Near Eastern mode of thought is not at all intuitive to us moderns, but our understanding of ancient perspectives can only approach accuracy when we begin to penetrate ancient texts on their own terms rather than imposing our own world view. In this task, we are aided by the ever-growing corpus of literature that is being recovered and analyzed. After an introduction that presents some of the history of comparative studies and how it has been applied to the study of ancient texts in general and cosmology in particular, Walton focuses in the first half of this book on the ancient Near Eastern texts that inform our understanding about ancient ways of thinking about cosmology. Of primary interest are the texts that can help us discern the parameters of ancient perspectives on cosmic ontology—that is, how the writers perceived origins. Texts from across the ancient Near East are presented, including primarily Egyptian, Sumerian, and Akkadian texts, but occasionally also Ugaritic and Hittite, as appropriate. Walton’s intention, first of all, is to understand the texts but also to demonstrate that a functional ontology pervaded the cognitive environment of the ancient Near East. This functional ontology involves more than just the idea that ordering the cosmos was the focus of the cosmological texts. He posits that, in the ancient world, bringing about order and functionality was the very essence of creative activity. He also pays close attention to the ancient ideology of temples to show the close connection between temples and the functioning cosmos. The second half of the book is devoted to a fresh analysis of Genesis 1:1–2:4. Walton offers studies of significant Hebrew terms and seeks to show that the Israelite texts evidence a functional ontology and a cosmology that is constructed with temple ideology in mind, as in the rest of the ancient Near East. He contends that Genesis 1 never was an account of material origins but that, as in the rest of the ancient world, the focus of “creation texts” was to order the cosmos by initiating functions for the components of the cosmos. He further contends that the cosmology of Genesis 1 is founded on the premise that the cosmos should be understood in temple terms. All of this is intended to demonstrate that, when we read Genesis 1 as the ancient document it is, rather than trying to read it in light of our own world view, the text comes to life in ways that help recover the energy it had in its original context. At the same time, it provides a new perspective on Genesis 1 in relation to what have long been controversial issues. Far from being a borrowed text, Genesis 1 offers a unique theology, even while it speaks from the platform of its contemporaneous cognitive environment.

Download or read book Cold Case Christianity written by J. Warner Wallace and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

Download or read book The Bible and Astronomy written by Johann Heinrich Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art written by Shulamit Laderman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the design of the Tabernacle in the wilderness correspond to God’s blueprint of Creation? The Christian Topography, a sixth-century Byzantine Christian work, presents such a cosmology. Its theory is based on the “pattern” revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai when he was told to build the Tabernacle and its implements “after their pattern, which is being shown thee on the Mount.” (Exod. 25: 40). The book demonstrates, through texts and images, the motifs that link the Tabernacle and Creation. It traces the long chain of transmission that connects the Jewish and Christian traditions from Syria and ancient Israel to France and Spain from the first through the fourteenth century, revealing new models of interaction between Judaism and Christianity.

Download or read book Beyond the Firmament written by Gordon J. Glover and published by Watertree Press LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As debates within the Church over the scientific details of creation become more frequent, the experts seem to grow more entrenched while the rest of us only become more confused. Somewhere between the endless arguments over distant starlight and Carbon-14 dating, calculating the mathematical improbabilities of things that already exist, and parsing ancient Hebrew and Greek, somebody needs to ask the simple question, If 3,500 years of scientific progress can't help modern Christians figure out Genesis, then how could the ancient Israelities possibly have understood it so well? What secret did this newly liberated gaggle of Hebrew nomads take with them out of Egypt that holds the key to understanding God's telling of His own creation story? Beyond the Firmament challenges all creationist camps --whether Young-Earth, Old-Earth, or Theistic Evolutionist -- to step outside of traditional paradigms and recognize how our modern, Western, post-Enlightenment scientific worldview actually blinds us from seeing the simple truth of Creation as it was originally intended, and how our failure to grasp the theological significance of the Biblical creation model puts science and faith on a collision course.

Download or read book Laying Down Arms to Heal the Creation Evolution Divide written by Gary N. Fugle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles over creation or evolution have been perpetuated for years by vocal Christians and scientists alike. But conflict has never been the only choice. Laying Down Arms to Heal the Creation-Evolution Divide presents a comprehensive, uplifting alternative that brings together an orthodox, biblical view of a sovereign Creator-God and the meaningful discoveries of modern evolutionary biology. Gary Fugle offers unique insights into this debate from his dual perspective as both an award-winning biology professor and a committed leader in conservative evangelical churches. In focusing on the stumbling blocks that surround creation and evolution debates, Fugle sensitively addresses the concerns of skeptical Christians and demonstrates how believers may celebrate evolution as a remarkable aspect of God's glory. He describes how the mainstream scientific community, as well as numerous Christians, may alter current approaches to eliminate conflicts. He explains conservative readings of early Genesis that respect both the inerrant words of Scripture and the evolutionary revelations in God's natural creation. This book is for individuals who sense that biblical Christian faith and evolution are compatible without compromising core convictions. If given good reasons to do so, are we willing to lay down our arms to affirm an encompassing vision for the future?

Download or read book Christology and Cosmology written by J. Rebecca Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh interpretation of the relation between Greek thought and ancient Christian theology through an analysis of three foundational and controversial thinkers: Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea, and Athanasius. As an urban teacher, civic apologist, and ascetic bishop, each of the three theologians offered a distinctive Christian response to the religious and ecclesiastical issues of the third and fourth centuries. Each cosmology and Christology therefore reveals particular concerns about individual and social identity and salvation in the developing Christian community.

Download or read book Big Bang to Humankind written by Flavien Phanzu Mwaka and published by Librinova. This book was released on 2021-12-23T00:00:00Z with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volume I of this book revealing the sphere of the Pre-Big Bang and its structures was published in the collection "verses of scholars" under the title "Cosmology according to biblical and ancient models". From « Big-bang to Humankind" of volume III in Astrotheology constitutes the continuity. If the greatest discovery of the last century in cosmology was "The Big Bang" on which all indisputable evidence converges, 100 years later, the greatest revelation is that this phenomenon is also biblical. The author of the book ; Amateur astronomer, Independent writer and Researcher, is the first to have completely restored the biblical creation scheme in its true context, demonstrating that it is the most complete scheme of which science has not yet discovered all the mysteries. The restitution of this scheme brings a new invention in cosmology, namely "The Universal Cosmological Model". It is now up to science to take hold of it and to enlarge it. At the end of the book, a demonstration of Astrotheology on ancient Chinese and Western philosophies shows that the models of the Universe have always been often consistent, even in cosmogony, for the informed reader. With a language easy to understand, this book is for everyone..

Download or read book Biblical Cosmology written by Donal Haughey and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Copernican revolution in the 16th Century, mankind has taken on the irrevocable dogma that the Earth is a spinning spherical globe, orbiting the Sun at 66,600 mph, contained within a heliocentric universe. What, though, does the Bible say about this? Can Science and the Bible ever agree with each other? What was the belief the ancient people (including the Biblical Prophets) had concerning the Earth and Universe? Join me, as I take a look back through history in a journey of discovery and research, in the quest for the answer to these questions and many more. First Published in Australia on June 7th 2021.

Download or read book God and Galileo written by David L. Block and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today." Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The debate over the ultimate source of truth in our world often pits science against faith. In fact, some high-profile scientists today would have us abandon God entirely as a source of truth about the universe. In this book, two professional astronomers push back against this notion, arguing that the science of today is not in a position to pronounce on the existence of God—rather, our notion of truth must include both the physical and spiritual domains. Incorporating excerpts from a letter written in 1615 by famed astronomer Galileo Galilei, the authors explore the relationship between science and faith, critiquing atheistic and secular understandings of science while reminding believers that science is an important source of truth about the physical world that God created.

Download or read book A Simple Model of Biblical Cosmology written by F. Carlyle Stebner and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a simple but controversial view of the creation of the universe. The Bible is the inerrant word of God, and what the Bible teaches should be the basis for any model of creation. Secular science does not agree, but all should study different theories and models, especially in a college and university setting where different points of view should be tolerated and encouraged rather than suppressed.

Download or read book Biblical Cosmology The World According To The Bible And The Ancients written by Dónal Haughey and published by Thorpe. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Copernican revolution in the 16th Century, mankind has taken on the irrevocable dogma that the Earth is a spinning spherical globe, orbiting the Sun at 66,600 mph, contained within a heliocentric universe. What, though, does the Bible say about this? Can Science and the Bible ever agree with each other? What was the belief the ancient people (including the Biblical Prophets) had concerning the Earth and Universe? Join me, as I take a look back through history in a journey of discovery and research, in the quest for the answer to these questions and many more. First Published in Australia on June 7th 2021.

Download or read book The Biblical Cosmos written by Robin A Parry and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible.Robin Parry takes the reader on a guided tour of the biblical cosmos with the goal of opening up the Bible in its ancient world. He then goes further and shows how this very ancient biblical way of seeing the world is still revelatory and can speak God's word afresh into our own modern worlds.

Download or read book Genesis and Cosmos written by Adam Rasmussen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Genesis and Cosmos Adam Rasmussen examines how Basil and Origen addressed scientific problems in their interpretations of Genesis 1: namely, the nature of matter, the super-heavenly water, and astrology.

Download or read book Poetics of the Gnostic Universe written by Zlatko Pleše and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues that the world model of the Apocryphon of John is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism. Poetics of the Gnostic Universe also discusses the composition and narrative logic of the Apocryphon of John, explores its revisionist attitude towards various literary models (Plato’s Timaeus, Wisdom literature, Genesis), and analyzes its peculiar discursive strategy of conjoining seemingly disconnected symbolic ‘codes’ while describing the derivation of a multi-layered universe from a single transcendent source.