Post 01: View on Creation

A creation story tells a story of how the world began. I've discovered that most of them are just basic themes rather than going into great detail. For example, in the Genesis creation story, God wanted there to be light, so he said "Let there be light" and there was light, and it can't get anymore simple than that. The purpose of creation stories are to inform us of how the world, and we as human beings, were created and how we've changed and grown since the "beginning". Every religion or culture has a creation story, and the amazing thing about them is that they all differ, but they have similarities as well. It sort of makes me wonder which one is the "real" creation story, and how it really happened, because what if what we have faith in and what we believe is actually not what really happened in the creation of our world? 

How did this world come about? Where did we, as human beings, come from? Why are we here, and what is our purpose for living? These are some serious questions that can make anyone wonder what the meaning of life really is. Most of us have a belief, and we're sticking to that belief, including myself. However, creation stories from other religions interest me, even if I don't believe it for a second. My personal view on creation is simple: I believe that God created a Heaven and Earth, which is the Heaven we can only imagine and read about in the Bible, and the Earth that we live and thrive upon today. I believe in the creation story of Genesis, because that is what our world and lives were built upon and how they were created. I have grown up learning the creation story of Genesis along with other stories in the Bible, so that's one reason why my faith in this stands firm. I realize and understand that some of my colleagues have other beliefs, or maybe even no belief at all, and I completely accept that because everyone has a different mindset, and we were all raised in opposite households. We as people are affected differently by certain creation stories and tend to believe and take in aspects of the creation of this world in different perspectives. The other creation stories that I have read, such as Metamorphoses, are interesting to read about because Metamorphoses consisted of different "ages" of life, and their world was created by "Chaos" and "nature" and the world wasn't organized as effectively as God in Genesis. These types of creation stories just seem so unrealistic and fictional in my opinion, even though I do find it entertaining. These creation stories are the foundation for world literature because there are other cultures and religions out there who believe the world was created differently, and that is okay because everyone is entitled to their own opinion in any given area, not just the creation of our world. I enjoy reading other creation stories because it helps me gain better knowledge and understandment of the world and its literature, along with how other cultures choose to believe differently about the creation of the world.