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Apologetics: Modern Physics

God has a way of turning up in the strangest places. When we look into the skies with remarkably powerful telescopes seeing stars billions of lights away (and so billions of years in the past), we see evidence of creation … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Jesus’ Claim to be God

Borrowing once again from C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity — I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I … Continue reading

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Apologetics: The Moral Law Within

C.S. Lewis, a former atheist, wrote in  Mere Christianity, If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was … Continue reading

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Apologetics: A Plea for Better Hermeneutics

We’re done with science and Christianity for a while, and I have no plans to return to the science of origins. I just want to reflect a bit on one of the deeper issues underlying the last few posts before moving … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology, with a Surprise Ending, Part 7

Dating Eden Eden in the Fertile Crescent Suppose we move Eden back to something like 65,000 BC, when humans were first in Mesopotamia — the traditional site of Eden. Or if we’re willing to move Eden to Africa, we can move … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology, with a Surprise Ending, Part 6

 The Flood The Flood itself was either a local flood or else God chose to leave no physical evidence of the Flood on the planet. There is no archaeological or geological evidence for a global Flood. Obviously, God could have … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology, with a Surprise Ending, Part 5

Proposition: Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden are a special creation within the Creation I believe God created Adam and Eve from scratch, just as is described in Genesis 2. There was a real, literal Garden of Eden, … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology, with a Surprise Ending, Part 4

  The curse of Genesis 3 If the fossil record reveals death, disease, weed, thistles, and even cataclysmic destruction of animal life long before 4004 BC, what did the curse on creation that resulted from sin produce in Genesis 3? … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology: An Interview with N. T. Wright

Take the time to read this brief interview with N. T. Wright on some topics we’ve touched on here. It’ll be well worth your time. Wright speaks at a fairly elevated level, so be prepared to be challenged. I’ve just GOT … Continue reading

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Apologetics: Ruminations on Eden, the Flood, Babel & Archaeology, with a Surprise Ending, Part 3

 Death (Rom 5:12-13 ESV) 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned — 13 for sin indeed was in the world before … Continue reading

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