Category Archives: creation

Can you loose Orion’s belt?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: December 13, 2008
HT: Doug and InternetMonk.com Job 38.31-33 (REB): Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades or loose Orion’s belt? Can you bring out the signs of the zodiac in their season or guide Aldebaran and its satellite stars? Did you proclaim the rules that govern the heavens or determine the laws of nature on the earth? The brilliant Hubble Space Telescope advent [...]
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Once upon a time in the east…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 11, 2008
Genesis 11:1-9 (NEB) – Once upon a time all the world spoke a single language and used the same words. As men journeyed in the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them hard’; they used bricks [...]
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The literary Bible: Feeding the flames of hell

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 3, 2008
This is a post in a continuing translation comparison series. Focused on “the literary Bible”, my intent is look at passages or phrases where translations that have been especially noted for their literary translation qualities seem to capture the meaning of the text with an extra dash of written flavor, at least in comparison with [...]
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An open response regarding Christian environmentalism

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: July 22, 2008
In the comments to a recent post on Al Gore, Christianity and environmentalism, TC made the following statements (quoted, but edited together – emphasis mine): I’m all for a cleaner environment for our enjoyment and our children’s children, but where is the biblical mandate? [...] We’re told in Scripture to love ourselves and not to destroy [...]
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ANE discussion of Genesis 1 continues

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 5, 2008
In case you missed the updates I appended to the original post on a functional ANE perspective of Genesis 1, John Hobbins wrote a rebuttal to Dr. Walton’s position that “Genesis 1 is concerned only with the assignment of functions to things” and is “not concerned with the formational history of the things of which [...]
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