Many evangelical creeds will restate traditional Calvinist or Arminian theology, such as belief in biblical inerrancy and creation.

* Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation

In devotional terms, these confessions are said to embrace the biblical witness to God's activity in creation, encompass God's gracious self-involvement in the dramas of history, and anticipate the consummation of God's reign.

Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation.

They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.

They sought to ban evolution as a topic for study in the schools or, failing that, to relegate it to the status of unproven hypothesis perhaps taught alongside the biblical version of creation.

Geologists adapted catastrophism to show repeated worldwide annihilation and creation of new fixed species adapted to a changed environment, initially identifying the most recent catastrophe as the biblical flood.

He hoped for the restoration of the ancient temple in Jerusalem, the exclusive right of Jews to settle on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the creation of a state based on biblical law.

In Britain, geologists adapted this idea into " diluvial theory " which proposed repeated worldwide annihilation and creation of new fixed species adapted to a changed environment, initially identifying the most recent catastrophe as the biblical flood.

* 1637 BC — Death of Abraham according to Jewish calculations ( 2, 123 years after biblical creation )

The Magician's Nephew has similar biblical allusions, reflecting aspects of The Book of Genesis such as the creation, original sin and temptation.

They sought to ban evolution as a topic for study, or at least relegate it to the status of unproven theory perhaps taught alongside the biblical version of creation.

The book covers biblical history from the creation of Adam and Eve to a summary of the initial Israelite conquest of Canaan in the beginning of the book of Judges.

After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, several adjoining villages – Amishav and Ein Ganim to the east ( named after the biblical village ( Joshua 15: 34 )), Kiryat Matalon to the west, towards Bnei Brak, Kfar Ganim and Mahaneh Yehuda to the south and Kfar Avraham on the north – were merged into the municipal boundaries of Petah Tikva, giving it a significant population boost to 22, 000.

The first day of the biblical creation narrative begins with darkness, into which is introduced the creation of light, and the separation of this light from the darkness ( as distinct from the creation of the sun and moon on the fourth day of creation ).

The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the biblical Book of Genesis and in Paradise Lost.

Evolution contradicts a literalistic interpretation of Genesis ; however, according to Roman Catholicism and most contemporary Protestant Churches, biblical literalism in the creation account is not mandatory.

For example, on 12 February 2006, the 197th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth was commemorated by " Evolution Sunday " where the message that followers of Christ do not have to choose between biblical stories of creation and evolution was taught in classes and sermons at many Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Congregationalist, United Church of Christ, Baptist and community churches.

Whatever the biblical account of creation is, it's not a theory alongside theories ... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it.

The Nazarene Manual, a document crafted to provide Biblical guidance and denominational expression for Church members, states: " The Church of the Nazarene believes in the biblical account of creation (“ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

The existence of Moses as well as the veracity of the Exodus story is disputed amongst archaeologists and Egyptologists, with experts in the field of biblical criticism citing logical inconsistencies, new archaeological evidence, historical evidence, and related origin myths in Canaanite culture.

This and some other examples of apparent comparison between Greek myths and the " key characters " in the Old Testament / Torah have led recent biblical scholars to suggest a Hellenistic influence in the composition of the earlier portions of the Hebrew Bible.

Except for the history of Justinian and his immediate predecessors, it possesses little historical value ; the author, " relying on Eusebius of Caesarea and other compilers, confidently strung together myths, biblical stories, and real history.

He uses mirrors, as ‘ a complementary character ’ for the construction of a subject, ironic or poetic, inspired by historical myths and the biblical subjects.

Some Chagga myths concerning Ruwa resemble biblical stories of the Old Testament.

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate ; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

Sethians are so called for their veneration of the biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, who is depicted in their myths of creation as a divine incarnation ; consequently, the offspring or ' posterity ' of Seth are held to comprise a superior elect within human society.

In 2008 he was writing a book on " biblical myths and falsehoods ".

Despite early references to biblical trees, the Book of Genesis and such, the bulk of Aquarion is tied to many other non-Christian myths.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci noticed discrepancies with the use of the biblical flood narrative as an explanation for fossil origins:

He prophesied the coming of a biblical flood and a new Cyrus from the north who would reform the Church.

Akkadian Atrahasis (" extremely wise ") and Utnapishtim (" he found life "), as well as biblical Noah (" rest ") are similar heroes of flood legends of the ancient Near East.

Strong parallels are notable with other Near Eastern flood legends, such as the biblical account of Noah.

A child born at the Elba Hotel during this flood was named " Noah Tucker " after the biblical character Noah.

He added extensive editorial notes to the translation that explicitly linked the latest of Cuvier's revolutions with the biblical flood, and the resulting essay was extremely influential in the English-speaking world.

Buckland spent much of his early career trying to demonstrate the reality of the biblical flood with geological evidence.

He frequently cited Cuvier's work even though Cuvier had proposed an inundation of limited geographic extent and extended duration, and Buckland, to be consistent with the biblical account, was advocating a universal flood of short duration.

In the Middle Ages, the standing stones were seen to have been built by the giants who inhabited the earth before the biblical flood.

The antediluvian ( or pre-diluvian ) period – meaning " before the deluge " – is the period referred to in the Bible between the Creation of the Earth and the Deluge ( flood ) in the biblical cosmology.

Early in his career he believed that he had found geologic evidence of the biblical flood, but later became convinced that the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz provided a better explanation, and he played an important role in promoting that theory in Great Britain.

Dawson was a special creationist, but not a biblical literalist, admitting that the days of creation represented long periods of time, that the Genesis flood was only ' universal ' from the narrator's limited perspective, and that it was only humanity, not the Earth itself, that was of recent creation.

* Noah's Ark, the biblical flood narrative

The change of the days by Werfel " called up biblical associations: the flood lasted forty days and nights ; Moses spent forty days and nights on Mount Sinai ; Israel's time in the wilderness was forty years.

After opening with the declaration that " the Bible is the infallible Word of God ," Whitcomb's section provides biblical arguments for a universal flood as well as attempting to refute non-geological difficulties with the biblical account.

Refuting Compromise, published in 2004, is Sarfati's rebuttal of the day-age creationist teachings of Dr. Hugh Ross, who attempts to harmonise the Genesis account of creation with mainstream science regarding the age of the earth and the possible size of the Biblical Flood, against which Sarfati defends a literal biblical timeline and a global flood.

He determined that the bones were from the remains of animals brought into the cave by hyenas who had been using it for a den, and not a result of the biblical flood floating animal remains in from distant lands as had first been thought.

In a November 2009 interview with the London magazine Time Out, Emmerich states: " I always wanted to do a biblical flood movie, but I never felt I had the hook.