[responsivevoice_button] Chris Matthew: Ambiguity is No Guide to Falsification The first phase of the video [0:33 to 1:44] details how Scripture makes use of the words “earth” and “land” in a regional, not global, sense. I can’t help but notice … Continue reading Global or Regional?
[responsivevoice_button] Gen. 1:11 Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so. 21 So God created the large sea-creatures and every … Continue reading Reproducing After Their Kind
[responsivevoice_button] There is a common objection against the YEC(specifically the idea that things are created with apparent age). That God would be guilty of deception because the appearance of things contradicts their reality. I’ve responded to that on another occasion: … Continue reading Lost in Translation
[responsivevoice_button] How can light be created or exist, it is often asked, before the sun was created? The problem with this and similar questions is that they impose our knowledge about the cosmos, indeed an objective knowledge about the workings … Continue reading The Light of Day
There is a debate amongst Christians on whether Adam and Eve were the first two human beings. This debate goes across liberal Christians lines and enters into the conservative Christian camp aswell. I’ll try to highlight the arguments presented for the notion that Adam was the first human being. 1. Geanologies Genesis 5:1-5 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. 3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a … Continue reading First Guys Finish Last
4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved. 6 For if a woman … Continue reading Are women made in God’s image?
Robert Rowe has been in some recent dialogues about his interpretation of the Genesis. I think he walks the accommodationist and concordist tight wire to make his interpretations. He finds the Bible to be the product of outdated ideas and sees these as God accommodating to his Ancient Near Eastern people. He finds that atheist objections are foolish because they are trying to read science back on to a mythological text. He, for example, thinks the Bible teaches that the universe fits this model: On the other hand, he is a scientist. He loves to see his ideas correspond with an exterior reality. … Continue reading Rowe’s Dilemma
I’m not a fan of either position Robert Rowe or Dr. Josh Bowen. I think they are liberal in their perspectives, but it is interesting what Dr. Bowen says about him in his video. A slightly liberal Christian perspective vs Liberal Atheist scholar perspective: Continue reading Robert Rowe on The Flood
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