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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
The Pilgrim’s Relevancy Book XIII: Public Education
As they walked, they noticed a building that they had not seen before. It was concealed by the crowd and above the door it had a sign that revealed it as a public school. People stood on both sides of the border between Power and Religion. The citizens of Religion spoke out against the public... Continue Reading →
Can I know if evolution is true or not? If someone believes in evolution, can he also believe in God?
Before I answer this question, I want us to remember that in everything we do or in everything we strive to answer, we are to remain humble. I also want to stress that there is a danger in reading something into Scripture that is not there and that God gave us the natural world so... Continue Reading →
Contemplating the Cosmos: The Fantastical Alien Worlds
           “All my life I have wondered about the possibility of life elsewhere. What would it be like? Of what would it be made?”[1] It is easy to wonder, sitting on this cosmic shoreline and looking up into the universe, if there is any life out there whose intelligence might be similar to our own,... Continue Reading →
Contemplating the Cosmos: Standing on the Shoreline
           I stand outside and look at the stars with wonder, noting the great complexity of systems and the great emptiness within the cosmos that I have read about. To think that I look with wonder at the same universe that is observed by great thinkers like the late Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Yet... Continue Reading →
Darwinism, A Modern Day Myth?
Over the past few weeks we have looked at myths from other cultures in the past. We looked at the Enuma Elish, which was the first creation story ever recorded in writing. We looked at the Gilgamesh Flood, which portrayed with much similarity the flood in our own scriptures. We looked at variations within the... Continue Reading →
Re: Evolution
From: concerned atheist Subject: Evolution To: Dedicated Christian _______________________________ Dedicated Christian, You probably hear this more than you care to, but nonetheless I have decided to inquire according to this issue. More and more, as time progresses, general human knowledge also progresses and, though we cannot confidently claim how the origination of the universe came... Continue Reading →