Example Of Comparative Essay

Comparative Essay

Todd A. Bush

Liberty University – PHSC 210

In today’s day and age, Christians possess a biblical perspective and opinions of the origin of the universe. In the Christian faith, the belief is that God formed the earth and He did it in a matter of six days. The book of Genesis breaks down the creation. The communication gap widens and such reactionary creationist views are labeled as ‘folk science.’ The scriptures and the gospel are consequently dismissed as meaningless” (Greene, 2006). It is awful that many non-believers of the Christian faith allow themselves to be pushed away from the Word of God and the Creator because of the young-earth claims. For those who love science, they find it completely ridiculous. There are many people who see Chiristianity as unscientific and therefore reject any of its claims because they allow their finite minds to be deceived.

According to the Word of God, it pinpoints six literal days used to form earth by the hands of almighty God. This formation is found in Genesis 1 and Genesis 5. When it comes to the English Bible, it is based on the Masoretic findings; it concludes that 1,656 years passed from the creation of the flood. The Jewish calendar highlights same-like dates from the 2nd century and it is based on the time of the Genesis Patriarch age. There is a difference that lies within because each held different dates of events to base their theory. The Masoretic text in a translated format

provides the exact same number of Generations of Genesis. According to the Septuagint, the number of that does vary. The Old and New Earth do agree with various facts that highlights present nature of Rocks. However, they do differ in reference to unobserved past and the facts viewed from history. From the perspective of scientist, they attempt to use historical reconstruction of the universe, which also in addition to that, use data research and the analysis of empirical science. From the readings of the textbook, it explains that historical reconstruction, legitimately, is a different enterprise.
When it comes to the worldly way of describing the formation of the universe, it is referred to as the Big Bang. To many, the Big Bang stories and its origin are completely fictional on many levels. Naturalism and uniformitarianism are the focal point of these philosophies that lie behind the Big Bang. This is the main model actively used to illustrate the formation of the universe. It is said that it is the current process which is currently operating the universe. The Big Bang is also known as the singularity that contains much mass and energy that is visibly seen today. This theory concludes that the energy began to cool down as the universe itself began to expand. There are many people who believe and hold to the notion that God used the Big Bang to form the universe. According to the evolutionary view, it highlights that the Big Bang occurred or originated between 10-20 billion years ago. It is also believed that before that, matter and energy along with the entire universe was brought down to a super dense ‘cosmic egg’, the size of an electron. Now it is believed that this same ‘cosmic egg’ indeed originated as a ‘quantum fluctuation in a vacuum. In the textbook, “The Young Earth”, it mentions about after the ‘inflation’ and then a ‘hot big bang’. It also mentions that with a produced sub-atomic particle, which in turn particles causing hydrogen and helium. Over a matter of time the gas expands outwardly at a fast rate, therefore moving to an explosion vacuum that set out and eventually began to move together as one body or formation. Thereafter, stars and galaxies and all which are weaving themselves together, leaving a massive portion of space virtually empty. These events took place a second time and are known as a Second Generation. Soon after an explosion, a bundle of stars united together. The second scenario is that life formed rapidly from non-being chemicals around 3-4 billion years ago. Thereafter, multi-cellular moved into play around 1 billion years ago. It is believed then that man evolved 1-3 million years ago. After the cosmic time table ranging from thousands of years, man and the creation date correlate according to the Big Bang. Even to this day, many astronomers now have new age ideas that replace the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang upholds the Secular Model of meaning a created molten blob.
According to the Big Bang, it teaches that the universe will continue to expand forever and then eventually will run out of energy and thereafter be called Heat Death.

The Word of God, however, teaches us that everyone will be judged. The once lost Paradise will be restored and life as we see today will halt for a greater formation of living. The Big Bang holds to the notion that biblical principles do not exist. I came across some facts via a website, the Word of God, and the textbook “The Young

Earth”:
• Big Bang Theory - 15 Billion years ago Water covered the Earth - Days 1-2 (John Morris, 2011)
• Stars developed over - 10 Billion years ago Dry Land and Plants Day 3 (John Morris, 2011)
• Sun - 5 Billion years ago Sun, Moon and Stars - Day 4 (John Morris, 2011)
• Molten Earth - 4.5 Billion years ago Sea and Flying Creatures - Day 5 (John Morris, 2011)
• First Oceans - 3.8 Billion years ago Land, Animals and Man – Day 6 (Greene, 2006)
From a Christian standpoint, the beliefs are from the teachings of the Holy Scriptures that the origin of earth and existence today was made by God Himself. The Big Bang was of course not added to the Bible because of its complete worldly theories and is honestly a lot of displaced values to not only discredit but dishonor the very nature and existence of God and His creation. The Word of God lets us know that it is by God who created the heavens and the earth and that it was all done in six days and on the seventh day he did rest, Genesis 1; Exodus 20:11 (Swaggart, 2005). Also, the Word tells us that there indeed were 24 hour days, the morning and evening was done on the 1st day, the 2nd day, the 3rd day and so on. On the other hand, the Big Bang highlights that the universe evolved and existence began well over a billion years ago. However, God’s Word tells us that the formation of earth was created first and thereafter the stars and the trees and so on, note that they were created before the sun (Swaggart, 2005).
The Young Earth View - stands by the view that the Geneses creationists allude only to the summary of what occurred. They hold to the belief that earth was already formed only to be suspended in the heavens. To them, the sun and the moon came at a later time. Based off of the English interpretation, ‘God created lightly instantly’. With that, they use the illumination theory that comes from pre-existing light referred to as the sun, which is to rule over the night and day, and to divide the light from darkness. They also hold that God caused dry land and created all forms of the plant life here on earth. In addition, they believe that God created each flying and sea animals and brought them into existence instantly. In retrospect, the biggest argument is centered on the timeline in which God created the earth.
As we remember, lest we forget, six day creation is the Christian perspective. I do admit that scientist have compelling arguments around what they believe. They have many opinions and scientific reasoning’s, even to the point of having history to compare. Needless to say, the Bible states in Isaiah 55:11 (KJV), “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. I believe that if many scientists really read the Word of God, it would penetrate their hearts and God would began to move in them through His written Word that they would have no other choice but to believe. I am certain that they would yield no longer to the Big Bang Theory and yield over their hearts and minds to believe that it is in God we live and move and have our being, as Paul said. But right now there is talk about something new to replace the young earth view. I do not believe that it will ever stop until Christ returns. Aside from all of that, however, there is nothing that can replace the Word of God because at the end of the world, everything is going down but the Word of God.

References
Greene, Jon W. (2006)”Evidence for God: “The Days of Creation: A Closer Look at Scripture” http://www.godandscience.org/youngearth/six_days_of_creation.html
Morris, John, Master Books. (2011) The Young Earth: The Real History of the Earth – Past, Present, and Future
Swaggart, J (2005) The Expositor’s New Testament, Counselor’s Edition
Hengeveld, Nick (1993) King James Version. Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI.
http://www.biblegateway.com