Tag: young earth
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Theology Thursday: Apologetics and Creation Part 1
The first eleven chapters in the Bible are my favorite. As someone who questioned their veracity before I started following Jesus, I understand there are some difficult things in these chapters. When we read these chapters, we read them like 21st century Americans obsessed with particular orders of events and the scientific method—things that the…
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Theology Thursday: Apologetics and Creation Part 1
The first eleven chapters in the Bible are my favorite. As someone who questioned their veracity before I started following Jesus, I understand there are some difficult things in these chapters. When we read these chapters, we read them like 21st century Americans obsessed with particular orders of events and the scientific method—things that the…
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The Creation of Humankind
During the creation week, God created the heavens and the earth and has been filling them both. Moses’s language has been inexact. We have not received the minutia of creation. We simply know that God speaks to create and command His creation. Moses has presented God as the sole creator and has called out the…
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Let There Be Sky, Dry Land, and Plant-Life
We previously covered the authorship, genre, and background of Genesis 1-11 and made it to the very first morning and evening upon the earth. We saw that, from the very beginning, God is the only creator and commander of His creation. We saw the plurality of God from the beginning. We saw God name evening…
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Contemplating The Cosmos: Introduction and Preconceptions
The universe is an extraordinary place and I am, as often as I think upon it, amazed at just how intricate it is. I am just as amazed with the human capacity to discover and explore the universe. A dominant theory concerning origins is that the universe was once one, ‘very small’ singularity that…