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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Forget the Fish Already!
Forget the fish! God can work the miraculous. This is assumed in Jonah, but it isn’t the point of the story. The fish has only a bit swim on part. Focus instead on divine mercy and compassion. A while back … Continue reading
I Wish Pastors Knew … Part 2
In his first letter to the Corinthians Paul includes the oft quoted statement “I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.” (9:22) One application of this and the surrounding context … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Christianity, Pastoring and Preaching
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Scripture and (Ancient) Cosmology
The Bible is a collection of ancient texts. The most recent, by any reckoning, were written over nineteen hundred years ago. The oldest date back another five hundred to a thousand years and likely use sources dating back even further. … Continue reading
I Wish Pastors Knew … Part 1
Pastoring is a hard job. No question about this. People are messy and pain and suffering are quite real. I don’t want to criticize. But there are some things I wish pastors knew about life as a scientist, or for … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Pastoring and Preaching, Problems for Faith, Resources for Discussion
Tagged Bruce K. Waltke, Walter Moberly
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Isaiah and Jesus
Luke 24 relates a story immediately following the resurrection account (image): Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had … Continue reading
Human Evolution and the Bible
The final substantive section of Gary N. Fugle’s book Laying Down Arms to Heal the Creation-Evolution Divide looks at the regions of (apparent) conflict between evolutionary biology and the Christian Bible. His approach is predicated on the assumption that “we … Continue reading
Reading the Bible With Evolution in Mind
The last substantive section of Gary N. Fugle’s book Laying Down Arms to Heal the Creation-Evolution Divide looks at the regions of (apparent) conflict between evolutionary biology and the Christian Bible. His approach is predicated on the assumption that “we … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Creation, Genesis
Tagged Gary N. Fugle
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Jesus and Genesis
Recently ICR posted the picture to the right on their Facebook page (HT JD). Although the claim that half of Jesus’s references were to Genesis is unsupportable (see below), the idea that we must take a literal (i.e. young earth) … Continue reading
The Faithfulness of God
God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? We’ve been … Continue reading
Musings on Science and Theology 