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Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ . . . (NASB) Rom. 5:1  ver wonder how the universe came
into existence? Have you ever wondered how anything came into existence? The ancient creation stories reveal
that men and women have always wanted to know. People today are still asking that question because we want
to know where we came from and why we are here. Most of us would laugh upon hearing many of the creation stories. Most of them assume that one or more gods
existed, but from there the stories are very different. One of the stories comes from the Mande-speaking people,
who live in southern Mali. They believe that the world was created by Mangala. Mangala was a powerful being
who was composed of a variety of things, including twins. One was female and one was male. Mangala took seeds
from the twins and put them into an egg. Inside the egg the seeds grew into fish. One of the fish, named Pemba,
became ambitious and aggressive. He eventually threw some of the womb’s placenta down. That piece became
the earth. The story continues with the creation of two tribes. One became farmers and the other was aristocratic.
The story has great sexual overtones.
In the Shinto religion there are several creation stories. One of the stories teaches that Heaven and Earth and the In and Yo initially formed an egg. As time went by, heaven and earth separated within the egg. The heavier and grosser part settled down, leaving the purer and clearer above. The heavier part eventually became the earth, and purer part was the heaven above.
The Hindu religion has a creation story which teaches that Indra, king of the gods, and Vishnu, god of rain,
created heaven from earth when the sun rose from the navel of the earth and a pillar was erected.
In another Hindu creation story, the God of the sky commits incest with his daughter and spills his seed
on the ground. His golden seed eventually became a golden egg which was the universe. The egg split apart into
heaven and earth, and the yoke became the sun.
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