Assessing the Christian Epistemic Obligation to Big Bang Cosmology

Authors

Sven Östring, North New South Wales Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Abstract

For centuries, in the midst of historical waves of conflicting explanations of how our cosmos began, the Bible has resolutely proclaimed that God originally created the universe out of nothing. Thus, biblical cosmology holds that the universe is not past eternal and had a beginning. This cosmology was at odds with both the polytheistic Babylonian Enuma Elish creation myth 1 and Aristotle’s assertion that the universe has existed, unchanging, from eternity past. 2

Recommended Citation

Östring, Sven (2018) "Assessing the Christian Epistemic Obligation to Big Bang Cosmology," Journal of the Adventist Theological Society: Vol. 29: Iss. 1, Article 4.

Available at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jats/vol29/iss1/4