If we deny the historicity of Adam, “then the question will never allow itself to be finally suppressed: Is not Christ in his resurrection also a ‘teaching model’…?” (6) If the historicity of the first Adam is considered irrelevant to us, why then should the historicity of the second Adam not also be irrelevant to ...
As scholars, teachers, preachers, professors, et al discuss the Genesis creation account there are varied perspectives. An age old joke asks “What do you get when you put three Baptists in a room?” Answer: “Five opinions.” The opinions concerning Genesis chapters 1-2 (and sometimes expanding to chapter 11) are proliferating in like manner. In fact, ...
It seems that the going thing for many is to draw parallels between the Genesis Creation account and various myths from the ancient Near East. I have not read much from the ancient Near East, but what I have read seems to be more dis-similar than similar. Why the parallelism/parallelomania? Are there truly parallels to ...
Book Review Crossway Double Header Genesis: Beginning and Blessing and True Sexual Morality Genesis: Beginning and Blessing R. Kent Hughes ISBN-10: 1581346298 ISBN-13: 9781581346299 Hughes has hit a homerun, or at least a triple. This exposition of Genesis is amazing in its scope, depth, and clarity. Hughes is definitely in his prime here. While Hughes ...
The Genesis Flood And The Glory of God (The Veracity of God’s Word) Evidences for The Genesis Flood According to Dr. Duane Gish in his popular book Dinosaurs by Design, there are more than 270 such stories, most of which share a common theme and similar characters. So many flood stories with such similarities surely ...
As I said in an earlier post, a rejection of the doctrine of Creation as revealed to us in the book of Genesis is also the rejection of the foundation for morality. If there is no Creator, who makes the rules? Why should there be any rules at all? Perhaps we should all do whatever ...
The book of Genesis gives us the basis for marriage. You see, the truth is this: we may speak of “thousands of years of Judeo-Christian ethics” as the basis for our need to keep the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman in matrimony. The problem is this, however: those ...