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Category Archives: Adult Bible Classes
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 8 (the Finely Tuned Universe)
This is an argument that began from within the scientific community. The gist of it is that the universe appears to have been designed for life because of the extraordinarily precise nature of certain physical constants. Most of physics is … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 7 (Quark Confinement and Six Days)
Gerald Schroeder, a Jew, has written a series of books on creation and science, offering perspectives from Jewish history often missed by Christians. Moreover, Schroeder holds a doctorate in physics from MIT, making him truly qualified to address cosmological issues.
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 6 (the Logos)
I admit it. The last post was repeated from 2012 — and it was not all that controversial at the time even though it offers an interpretation of Genesis 1 that is far from the usual approach. It simply interprets … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 5 (God is in His Holy Temple)
Lately, I’ve seen several Bible scholars refer to the fact that the Creation is pictured as God’s Temple in Genesis 1 — which is hardly obvious to modern readers. I thought I’d go looking to see what the scholars are referring … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 4 (the Bible’s Chapters About Origins)
Finally, it’s time to chomp the bit and actually study the Bible’s famous chapter on the creation — Psalm 104 … Oh, you thought we’d be talking about that other famous creation passage. Well, we’ll get to Job 9 later. Actually, … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 3 (a Young Earth that Looks Old)
A lot of really bad teaching fills the Christianity and Science space — on both sides. On the Christian side, most of the bad teaching comes from ignoring the Bible’s teaching about science. For example, the scriptures plainly teach us … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 2 (a Detour into Hermeneutics and Inerrancy)
Inerrancy: An Essay Posted on September 11, 2011 by Jay Guin [This is a really long post. I’d normally post this about 1,000 to 1,500 words at a time, and it would take six or so posts spread over two … Continue reading
Apologetics: The Bible and Science, Part 1 (On Not Going to Hell over Genesis 1)
I’ve been reading evolutionist and creationist materials since junior high school. Back then, people had very strong opinions, of course, but it was considered a difficult, unsettled question. No one damned anyone else over their opinion about how old the … Continue reading
Apologetics: How We Got the Bible, Part 9 (a Short Bibliography)
There are lots of books available on textual criticism, many extremely technical. My favorite is Neil R. Lightfoot’s How We Got the Bible. My copy bears a 1962 copyright date, and it was a textbook in a Bible class at … Continue reading
Apologetics: How We Got the Bible, Part 8 (the Old Testament)
The manuscript history of the Old Testament is quite different from the New Testament. The Jews considered it disrespectful to the scriptures to keep an old, tattered copy around. And so they buried their old scrolls when a new scroll … Continue reading
