okay so stop me if you’ve heard of a
rabbi a pastor and an imam walk into a
bar okay so plus bard was a diner to
discuss my shows the story of God about
creation so the rabbi says there’s this
beautiful story in Judaism where Adam is
going through his first day he’s only
been with Eve and he’s only seen the Sun
and then the Sun sets and the Sun rises
again and Adam realizes that this is the
natural order of things that the
creation happens each and every day
Islam Judaism Christianity we all share
a lot of similarities in the creation
story but we also believe in an
additional source of authority in
Revelation which is the Quran and one
point of difference is that yes God
created the heavens and earth in six
periods but he did not rest on the
seventh day he’s intimately involved in
the continuing unfolding of all that is
ours is a little different it’s that he
was able to do so much in six days that
resting was about it’s done it is
finished and so we kind of believe it’s
an unfolding of what has already been
done in one moment this is so fabulous
because I feel like the Jewish tradition
embraces both of those aspects when it
comes into the creation of
and beings there’s actually two
different stories that emerge one is the
story that we know where Adam is drawn
up from the earth and the rib is taken
and that’s what makes Eve and the other
is that man and women are created
together I relate to that story to
imagine that all people are created
equal
how do you square that with scientific
explanations of creation because science
is one way than which God reveals
himself and so if we discover the Big
Bang is how things began then that’s
what we would believe theologically as
Muslims as well we all come from that
same source of creation whether it was
this big bang or it was these stories
the science and the the metaphor really
worked together to help us understand
where we came from God is what exists
beyond our ability to even imagine and
what we can know of God is really just
through the evidence of his creation and
through what we feel in our hearts so
God I don’t think that there’s conflict
at all it’s difficult for the human to
embrace that which doesn’t need to be
created because God forever exists
outside of time our human capacity can’t
even imagine space-time as one thing
right but to be outside of that even as
something that we just have a limitation
on as human beings
what I’m hearing is that we all believe
that God created the heavens in the
earth but it sounds like we differ in
some of the specifics of this creation
story and some of the symbolism I would
also say what we do with the stories is
where we differ
absolutely it’s just these literal
things that we focus on like an apple
but you know and no one even say
anything about that so sometimes we get
caught up in in the details as opposed
to maybe looking at the heart of that
story how come none of us celebrate Adam
and Eve and being in the garden it was
it because they got kicked out yeah
that’s a good question maybe we should
there’s a stigma on you know Adam and
Eve did this wrong and if I would have
done the same thing so if we were to
celebrate Adam it might look something
like reconnecting with the earth and
being environmentally conscious so maybe
something like Earth Day yeah this is
true I think I think we ought to started
for you guys
can anyone sum up the nation in five
words yeah I can do it in six I can do
it in say okay God created us to know
him oh that’s great that’s great or
maybe God created us to know which goes
back to Adam and Eve right reaching for
that fruit God created us to be known oh
I stole half of yours and some of you
share collaborate
rabbi a pastor and an imam walk into a
bar okay so plus bard was a diner to
discuss my shows the story of God about
creation so the rabbi says there’s this
beautiful story in Judaism where Adam is
going through his first day he’s only
been with Eve and he’s only seen the Sun
and then the Sun sets and the Sun rises
again and Adam realizes that this is the
natural order of things that the
creation happens each and every day
Islam Judaism Christianity we all share
a lot of similarities in the creation
story but we also believe in an
additional source of authority in
Revelation which is the Quran and one
point of difference is that yes God
created the heavens and earth in six
periods but he did not rest on the
seventh day he’s intimately involved in
the continuing unfolding of all that is
ours is a little different it’s that he
was able to do so much in six days that
resting was about it’s done it is
finished and so we kind of believe it’s
an unfolding of what has already been
done in one moment this is so fabulous
because I feel like the Jewish tradition
embraces both of those aspects when it
comes into the creation of
and beings there’s actually two
different stories that emerge one is the
story that we know where Adam is drawn
up from the earth and the rib is taken
and that’s what makes Eve and the other
is that man and women are created
together I relate to that story to
imagine that all people are created
equal
how do you square that with scientific
explanations of creation because science
is one way than which God reveals
himself and so if we discover the Big
Bang is how things began then that’s
what we would believe theologically as
Muslims as well we all come from that
same source of creation whether it was
this big bang or it was these stories
the science and the the metaphor really
worked together to help us understand
where we came from God is what exists
beyond our ability to even imagine and
what we can know of God is really just
through the evidence of his creation and
through what we feel in our hearts so
God I don’t think that there’s conflict
at all it’s difficult for the human to
embrace that which doesn’t need to be
created because God forever exists
outside of time our human capacity can’t
even imagine space-time as one thing
right but to be outside of that even as
something that we just have a limitation
on as human beings
what I’m hearing is that we all believe
that God created the heavens in the
earth but it sounds like we differ in
some of the specifics of this creation
story and some of the symbolism I would
also say what we do with the stories is
where we differ
absolutely it’s just these literal
things that we focus on like an apple
but you know and no one even say
anything about that so sometimes we get
caught up in in the details as opposed
to maybe looking at the heart of that
story how come none of us celebrate Adam
and Eve and being in the garden it was
it because they got kicked out yeah
that’s a good question maybe we should
there’s a stigma on you know Adam and
Eve did this wrong and if I would have
done the same thing so if we were to
celebrate Adam it might look something
like reconnecting with the earth and
being environmentally conscious so maybe
something like Earth Day yeah this is
true I think I think we ought to started
for you guys
can anyone sum up the nation in five
words yeah I can do it in six I can do
it in say okay God created us to know
him oh that’s great that’s great or
maybe God created us to know which goes
back to Adam and Eve right reaching for
that fruit God created us to be known oh
I stole half of yours and some of you
share collaborate
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