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How Can the Creation Account in Genesis 1 be Both History and Literature?

2020-10-16 by Todd Leave a Comment

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In my posts on Genesis 1 I say that the creation account is history and that it is literature. Is it possible to cross the impassable divide? At first, it seems the obvious answer is no. Historical fiction, after all, even though it’s cast in a real historical setting, is still fiction.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: bible, creation, genesis, historiography, history, literal, literalistic, literature, poetics, science

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Reading Genesis 1 as Literature and Three Problems it Creates for Evangelicals

2020-09-15 by Todd Leave a Comment

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Evangelicals often read the creation account in Genesis 1 as straightforward history but I’ve been suggesting that we need to pay attention to the literary features of the text and its ancient Near Eastern background. The text is historical narrative, I affirm, but also literary and figurative. This raises three questions that we need to address.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: conundrum, creation, genesis, science, theology

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The Structural Symmetry in the Six Days of Creation

2016-12-28 by Todd 6 Comments

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It’s finally time to turn to Scripture to see what Gen 1:1–2:3 teaches. At first glance the text seems to clearly teach that God created the world in six, twenty-four hour days. But if we look more closely we’ll see there is a very clear symmetry in the text that takes us in another direction. The primary teaching of this text has little to do with when God created and everything to do with why.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: creation, creation project, genesis, religion, revelation, science, theology

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars, How I Wonder When You Are

2016-12-19 by Todd 12 Comments

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If science and Scripture have some superficial conflicts but no deep conflicts when viewed from the ultimate perspective of wisdom, then we need to think carefully about the various claims of science and the Bible that appear to be in conflict. Are these apparent conflicts due to the limitations of the science perspective or due to our interpretation of Scripture? We need to be careful because sometimes our first attempt at finding a deeper unity might not be correct.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: creation project, genesis, revelation, science, theology, wisdom

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Seeking Consilience: The Unity of Science and Scripture in the Matrix of Wisdom

2016-08-24 by Todd 2 Comments

Reason and Wisdom

Now that we’ve got a good foothold in the Israelite wisdom worldview; that God created the universe to function in an orderly way, and that he created it as a way for us to experience the blessing of being in relationship with him, we can finally begin to triangulate science and Scripture from the vantage point of wisdom. In the end, we’ll discover that while there may sometimes be superficial conflict between science and Scripture, there will always be deep harmony when seen from the perspective of the wisdom worldview.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: creation, creation project, genesis, revelation, science, scripture, theology, wisdom

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The Fear of Yahweh is the Beginning of Wisdom: The Israelite Wisdom Worldview

2016-07-17 by Todd Leave a Comment

Reason and Wisdom

In the ANE wisdom worldview, god created the world to function in an orderly way. Now that we have that broad concept of wisdom, we can get more specific and look at Israel’s worldview. A great place to start is at the beginning. As we try to understand why “The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom,” we’ll discover that the whole purpose of the physical creation was to mediate our relationship with Yahweh. If we take the physical world out of this context, we’ll never be able to rightly and fully understand the universe.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: creation, creation project, genesis, revelation, science, scripture, theology, wisdom

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Designed for Order: The ANE Wisdom Worldview

2016-06-29 by Todd 1 Comment

Reason and Wisdom

In the previous post I pointed out that solving the Evangelical’s creation conundrum is like navigating between the Scylla and the Charybdis. Now I want to explain why understanding the wisdom worldview will help us better understand the relationship between science and Scripture so that we can steer unscathed through this treacherous route.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: creation, creation project, fibonacci, genesis, revelation, science, scripture, theology, wisdom

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The Evangelical’s Creation Conundrum: Navigating the Scylla and the Charybdis of Science and Scripture

2016-05-20 by Todd 10 Comments

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The age of the earth, the creation of the universe, evolution, the historicity of Adam and a variety of topics where the Bible and science intersect have, for centuries, created friction between Scripture and science. The issues touch all parts of Scripture but the most heat is produced in the early chapters of Genesis.

Given a high view of the authority of Scripture, how can evangelicals reconcile the teachings of Gen 1-3 with the widely accepted views of science?

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: charybdis, conundrum, creation, genesis, inerrancy, science, scylla, universe

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