Creation
Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › Our Lord and the Faith
13 questions
- How did humans come to exist?
- My philosophy professor says that Evolution if not true, at least it is a possibility; while Creationism on the other hand can definitely not be true because if God…
- If God created the world in six days, why would He need to rest on the seventh day? God is not matter; so why would He need rest?
- Why in Genesis 1:27 does the Holy Bible say that God created male and female, and yet, in Genesis 2:21-22, it say that God created the female from the rib of the male?
- The Genesis account of Creation did not mention and did not record the creatures of other planets or clusters or constellations of galaxies or the milky way or angels,…
- If God created everything, how was His spirit there from the beginning? Everyone keeps telling me that He was just there, but I do not understand how He got to be there…
- The website creation.com says that God created the world in six 24 hour days. Why do we say that the “six days are time periods only” with the reason being that the sun…
- My kids are asking me why did God create insects? Is it ok to play with spiders, for example? Or is it a symbol of the devil (like in Halloween)?
- In what ways does the Church respond to the existence of fossils, which appear to be modern humans' ancestors? Why do we believe that the modern human being is exactly…
- How can an Orthodox Christian read Genesis and the account of creation? Should it be read as literal truth or as an allegorical manner? Did the Church Fathers take it as…
- I was recently having a conversation about Genesis and the creation of the Garden of Eden and what the purpose of God creating the tree of knowledge was. The individual…
- I believe in creationism and in Adam, Eve, etc. However, how does this link up with the existence of different races/ethnic groups in our time? How did Adam and Eve, who…
- Why did God, in all His knowledge, need to create anything and why not create humans and place them directly in heaven?
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