By jaminhubner on May 8, 2010 in Critique of BioLogos, Old Testament | Comments Off
We continue our series on Pete Enns’ blog article “Adam is Israel” and ultimately, “Paul’s Adam”: If we see Adam as a story of Israelite origins, it will help us make sense of at least one nagging question that begins in Genesis 4:13—one that readers of Genesis, past and present, have picked up on. After [...]
By jaminhubner on May 7, 2010 in Hermeneutics, Old Testament | Comments Off
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 [...]
By jaminhubner on Apr 28, 2010 in Creation; Evolution; Intelligent Design, Critique of BioLogos, Old Testament | Comments Off
Introducing the BioLogos Forum On April 12th, Bruce Waltke submitted his RTS resignation letter to Christianity Today, which contained the following: Holy week and the Monday through Wednesday of this week have been a uniquely hectic experience in my 79 years, to say the least. So hectic, I did not even follow the New York [...]
By jaminhubner on Apr 24, 2010 in Old Testament, Theology | Comments Off
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 [...]
By jaminhubner on Apr 17, 2010 in Old Testament | Comments Off
I’m scheduled to start Hebrew-I for my MAR degree in a month. This is particularly exciting because, for years, I’ve told myself to learn Hebrew – for no other reason than to read Genesis 1-3 in the original language. No other chunk of Scripture has hit me over the head with such depth and richness [...]
By jaminhubner on Jan 28, 2010 in Biblical Inerrancy | Comments Off
Inerrancy and The Reformed Faith of Today and Yesterday Many semi-liberal, Reformed thinkers who are anti-conservative-evangelical (i.e. Dordt College profs, Calvin College profs, Thinknet, Roy Clouser and his cronies, etc.) have often tried to separate Old Princeton’s rigorous work on the doctrine of inspiration from Neo-Calvinists’ (Bavinck and Kuyper) doctrine of Scripture. That is, they [...]