Category: Genesis
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God is not in control and everything serves His purpose.
God is NOT in control of earthly events, and everything serves His purpose. Let me say that again: God is NOT in control of earthly events, and everything serves His purpose, because of the strength of His love. The Christian God, unlike all other conceptions of God in history, including the Aristotelian one most…
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The Necessary Oomphalos
Apparent Age is a fringe thought. From the view of the typical secularist it is one of the craziest uncles in a crazy family of religious ideas. When the evidence of an old universe first put pressure on the literal reading of Genesis, some sincere creationist argued that Adam must have had a belly button,…
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The Layers of Intelligent Design
First, the primordial cosmos: the earth was “without form and void”. This is not something other than matter. (You actually can’t imagine something other than matter. Even when you imagine energy, you create a picture drawn from visible aspects of matter.) What God made was, rather, unorganized matter. The language suggests “random” – the only…
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Genesis 2: Eve’s curiosity
Eve’s sin was to prefer the exploration of the world to obediance to God, taking the evidence of her senses as the final arbiter on good and evil. And the context of the incident is important: Eve could explore 99% of the universe with impunity. This freedom to explore a rational universe accounts…