Category Archives: creation
Once upon a time in the east…
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
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
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
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 [...]
Salvation within the functional hermeneutic
Building on the previous post about viewing the creation account of Genesis 1 from a functional hermeneutic rather than a structural perspective, I want ask some parallel questions, fast forwarding from Genesis to our life today.
The functional hermeneutic suggests that the things we view as structural objects to Creation, e.g. light, water, plants, animals, all [...]
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Genesis 1 as functional creation, not structural days
HT to Steve (Undeception) who provided a link to a 2003 presentation on “Genesis and Cosmology” by Dr. John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. Walton presents the position that Genesis 1 does not describe structural Creation (physical things), but instead describes functional Creation, the concepts that organize and drive the universe:
Those who [...]
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Can you loose Orion’s belt?