fruitful faith

Another observation about some of the theological (as in, not biological) features of the text of Genesis 1…

March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: fill, form, fruitfulness, genesis 1, idolatry, interpretation, literary genre | Category: bible, christianity, poetry, science, theology | Leave a comment

On the 5th day, God filled the skies and seas with all kinds of sky-life (‘every sort of winged bird’) and sea-life (’swarms of living creatures’).  Everything that flies through the sky.  Everything that lives in the sea.  A few points:

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: biology, creation, evolution, genesis, interpretation, spontaneous creation, the fall, youth earth | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (14)

I’m really appreciating how significant the theme of freedom is in the Bible.
Freedom is opposed to compulsion, captivity or slavery.
Utterly free of compulsion, God freely acts to create and sustain a free creation, particularly free and dangerous human beings, which constantly, continually and consistently become enslaved, manipulated, captive or otherwise enslaved to and by various [...]

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: bible, freedom, interpretation, liberation, salvation | Category: bible, christianity, ethics, politics, theology | Comments (7)

Just before the 6 creation days in Genesis 1, the earth is described as ‘tohu va vohu’ (formless and void; or wild and waste; or chaotic and empty).  It has no shape (un-formed) and has no stuff (un-filled).
The 6 days of creation (the ‘hexameron’) divide into 2 sets.  The first set of 3 days is [...]

December 29th, 2009 | Category: bible, poetry, science | Comments (14)

I have never quite understood what some are on about when they point to the vast size of the universe as some kind of evidence that we are insignificant, and that any notion of  human significance is ‘anthropocentric’ (human-centred).

December 1st, 2009 | Category: bible, christianity, philosophy, poetry, science | Comments (2)

The Christian response to the ‘Faithful Science’ day-conference have been mixed.
Most of the appreciative and complementary feedback has been email or verbal.  As for the less-appreciative feedback, unfortunately it’s been more public.
First, the Christian newspaper “Challenge Weekly” published a (to say it kindly) selective and less-than-inaccurate piece entitled “Conference fuels Controversy” (which can be viewed [...]

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evolution, faith, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (9)

In chapter 10 of his gospel (or not far into the Jerusalem journey narrative as he would have seen it – he didn’t divide his gospel into ‘chapter and verse’), Luke presents an exchange between an expert in the Law (of Moses – i.e. Torah) and Jesus.  The lawyer is first trying to ‘test’ Jesus, [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Tags: interpretation, jesus, Law, life, love | Category: bible, christianity, ethics | Comments (5)

Announcing “Faithful Science“…
A one-day Science & Faith conference – coming August 1.
Speakers and topics:

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evil, evolution, faith, interpretation, science, theism, theodicy, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (12)

Jonathan Robinson discusses science and biblical interpretation here.
Ryan Browning responds to young-earth views here.

June 7th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, evolution, interpretation, science | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology, www | Comments (3)