Bible: Man was created on Earth, in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8), The Bible describes clearly what was made on each day of Creation Week. The “Big Bang” is excluded by this sequence (e.g. Earth before Sun)., Creation in 6 days which are clearly Earth-rotation days (c. 24 hours)., Man and the animals were created vegetarian (Genesis 1:29-30). No death and suffering in the original creation., Man was created naked (but not ashamed—Genesis 2:25)., All things were created through Christ and for Christ. He was preexistent to Creation (e.g. Genesis 1:26; 3:22, 11:7; Michah 5:2; John 1:1-3, 10; 3:13; 6:62; 8:35, 58; 17:5, 24; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2)., Qur'an : Man was created in Paradise (“janna”)1, not on Earth (first couple later banished to Earth, e.g. Qur’an 2:36)., No clear details of each creation day. Some vague clustering of the days in 41:9-12.2, Creation also in 6 days2 but could easily be interpreted as “millions of years” (see main text)., Carnivory (and thus death and suffering) apparently integral to life on the created Earth from the first. The Qur’an (6:142, 16:5, 40:79) says that cattle were created for man to eat., The Qur’an speaks of Adam’s (and his wife’s) nakedness becoming apparent to them after they sinned (20:121; also implied by 7:22), yet also implies that they were wearing some kind of raiment prior to the Fall (Qur’an 7:273)., Jesus Christ was a created being. Qur’an 3:59 “The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; he created him from dust…”,

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