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idols & fruit

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

pre-fall death

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:

freedom

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 [...]

who is my neighbour?

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, [...]

faithful science

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

two more kiwi science posts

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

patriot bible!?

Noooooo!!!!!
Hat tip Halden.

ben on bart

“Holy rusted metal, BArT ehrMAN!”  (yes, I just typed that; many cheese-ness awards shall I win…)
Respected (and prolific! given the rate he publishes blogs and books!) New Testament Scholar Ben Witherington III is doing an astoundingly in-depth review of Bart Ehrman’s ‘Jesus Interrupted’ (parts 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 and 5) [...]

caption competition

I thought it would be a bit of fun to put this INCREDIBLE (but I’m not biased) picture up and let people try out some captions for it…
Have fun!

on election

No, not the recent U.S. election… rather the biblical doctrine of election.
(This will be a quick one)

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