Restoring the brethren to the Son of Joseph, one day at a time
To frame my thoughts on the full ramifications of Yeshua's sacrifice, I need to start by rambling philosophical on the nature of "spirit." If we don't understand what a "spirit" is or what we mean when we talk about a "spiritual realm," how can we understand what the Bible means when it uses spiritual terminology. …
One of the better books that I've read recently is Robert J. Hutcheson's Searching For Jesus. It's a look at the more recent turns in scholarship in regards to the life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua of Nazareth. It was published in 2015, so the information is pretty up-to-date, so for that reason alone it …
Let's talk science! In my previous posts, I've presented some musings on the Bible's creation narrative and our current scientific understanding of the record of nature. The response to this is to argue that these posts presuppose "uniformism," the idea that the natural laws and processes that we see today have always been the same, and "naturalism" …
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"Why does God need fourteen billion years to make the universe? Why couldn't he have just done it in six days like he said he did?" the young-earth creationist asks. I can think of at least three reasons. God Is Not Bored By the Passage of Time There's an old, probably apocryphal story about a …
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In my previous posts, I've demonstrated that the original Hebrew of Genesis by no means confines us to a young-earth paradigm and that either the universe at large is very old, or else God has deliberately engineered it to lie to us. But what about the earth itself? Maybe "the heavens and the earth" are …
In the comments on one of my previous posts, I've been going back and forth with Vaughn Ohlman, a long-time reader of this blog. We're at a bit of an impasse. He sees my position as giving in to an atheistic assumption of both naturalism (that nature is all there is) and uniformism (that the …
We've demonstrated that even in the English translation of the Bible, "day" does not necessarily mean 24 hours and can refer to a longer period of time. "But," the young-earth creationist argues, "the Genesis creation account keeps referring to evenings and mornings, so these obviously have to be normal 24 hour days." Well, if …
In the previous post, I pointed out several clues in the text of the Genesis creation narratives themselves that the "days" of creation are in fact much longer periods of time. Today, I'm going to show that the biggest difficulty creationists actually have in the creation narratives is actually a vital clue which makes a …
Andy Doerksen posted a response to my last article which ties so nicely into what I was planning to write anyway that I'm going to use it as my jumping-off point for this post. In response to me pointing out that the ancients knew only the part of the universe that they could see with …
In my previous post, I laid out a positive, scientific argument for a Creator entity that looks remarkably like the God of the Bible. However, there will be some Christians, particularly Evangelicals, who wouldn't be entirely happy with that case. Why? Because it depends on the modern cosmology that says that the universe is nearly …
The Return of Benjamin 