Fred finally comments on the toledoth (the 11 quotes of “these are the generations”): Seeing that Genesis 1 provides the major overview of God’s divine work of creation from start to finish, I wouldn’t expect there to be a toledoth heading; it’s unnecessary. However, chapter 2:4 goes back and fills in detail about day 6 [...]

As many of you have read, Fred Butler and I have been discussing Genesis 1 and theistic evolution (see “Apologetics and the Age of the Earth“). It’s been a very enjoyable and helpful dialog for myself and (so I hear) for others. Fred believes it is essentially impossible to hold to old-earth creationism and the [...]

In Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15, Paul draws a parallel between Jesus and Adam: Adam disobeyed (eating of the fruit) and brought death to “all”; Jesus obeyed (in his crucifixion) and (in rising) brought life to “all.” Jesus came to undo what Adam did. He came to reverse the curse of Adam. There is [...]

Before we discuss the relevance of the Genesis debate and theistic evolution with man made in the image of God, it’s important that we throw on the brakes for a moment to re-orient ourselves in terms of hermeneutics. This really is the issue, after all. No one has struck the balance so nicely as Walter [...]

“If we carefully keep this distinction in mind [the distinction set forth by Catholic theologians] and apply it in our criticism and exegesis of Scripture, it may very well happen that many parts of Scripture, which up until now we had viewed as history, prove upon study not to be history in our sense at [...]

If in the area of history [the apostles and prophets] write ‘in accordance with appearance,’ that certainly has to mean not in accordance with what happened objectively but in accordance with what many in their day believed subjectively. In that case they give us a false impression and are therefore being compromised in their authority [...]

Treading Water: Replacing One Extreme With Another In the last post in this series, we demonstrated how a polemic view of Genesis 1 does not require a denial of its historicity. The creation account in Genesis 1 may have been written in response to other contemporary, Ancient Near East pagan/Egyptian creation myths, but that in [...]