It's Complicated -Exploring Life's Difficuties......
The author takes a hard look at everyday problems, and their impact on human lives; and offers possible solutions.
The author takes a hard look at everyday problems, and their impact on human lives; and offers possible solutions.
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It’s <strong>Complicated</strong>: <strong>Exploring</strong> Life Difficulties and Finding Divine Serendipity<br />
Chapter 4<br />
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Creationism<br />
and Theological Perspective<br />
“Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's<br />
incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things,<br />
but you cannot be competent in God.”<br />
― Henri Nouwen<br />
Dutch Priest, and Theologian<br />
Creationism<br />
In the doctrine of creation, it is believed, God<br />
is the intelligent designer who created the<br />
universe and the natural things in it. This belief is<br />
derived from Genesis 1:1-2:3 which states, God<br />
created the heavens and the earth, light, water,<br />
vegetation, animals, then man in the image of<br />
himself. During the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas<br />
a systematic and influential author of science and<br />
religion believed the biblical God was not only the<br />
intelligent designer, but also the first Cause of all<br />
effects. Aquinas portrayed God as the continuing<br />
ruler of nature, and the one who gives humanity<br />
rule over nature.<br />
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