Showing posts with label Genesis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genesis. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Imago Dei

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This last example directs us to what the Hebrew preposition means in Genesis 1:26. Humankind was created as God’s image. If we think of imag...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Insights from Hebrew grammar

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See also Gen 1:6, 9 (unmarked jussive), 11, 14, 20 (unmarked jussive), 22, 24. Note the shift in person for the creation of humanity in vers...
Friday, September 29, 2023

More on order vs. chaos

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Therefore, we should think of the conquest as bringing order out of nonorder, rather than bringing order out of disorder. Nonorder (the Cana...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Reestablishing order from chaos (no, not our modern world!)

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The Israelite nation is holy, co-identiļ¬ed with Yahweh and the cosmic order. The Canaanite nations are thematically related to cosmic chaos....
Friday, May 12, 2023

The historicity of Adam?

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Thus the man who wants to “hold firmly the historicity of the story of Adam” is doing something quite different from what he thinks he is do...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Same base material, but where did they go with it?

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We have noted that even though the biblical account is developed along the same conversational lines as the Mesopotamian accounts, the inter...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Why in the world include that stuff?

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Consequently, if we were to pose the question, Why does the compiler of Genesis include Genesis 1-11? the answer would not be that he wanted...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Just reject the science; it's easier that way!

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It is disheartening, therefore, to see how some Christians, including Christian leaders, treat science as some sort of enemy of the faith. S...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

What? Me wrong?! No way!

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The lesson we should derive from these examples, particularly the Galileo incident, is that the church should not respond with a knee-jerk n...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

Was it the Black Sea?

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As intriguing as it is, however, we are not saying this particular flood generated the story of the flood. We do not believe We can reconstr...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Well, did it or did it now happen?

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We do not believe the flood story of the Bible is myth, but neither do we believe the author of Genesis 6-9 intends to give us a straightfor...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Inclusio

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When the theme of order by means of divine presence is recognized in Genesis 1-2, and when the restoration of divine presence is recognized ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Who are they?

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In contrast, focus on the use of terminology in the Bible suggests that “sons of God” (as rare as it is) refers consistently to the members ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Quick! Hit the reset button!

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The naming of Noah could indicate that he will be the one through whom order is preserved and restored in the aftermath of the insurgence of...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Vengeance is mine! I will repay, says who?

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[W]e also receive a glimpse of the persistent disorder personified in the boast of Lamech (Gen 4:23-24). Here we find a warped perspective o...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Chaos ensues

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In Genesis 4 it is evident that Cain and Abel are seeking to remain in contact with God as they offer their sacrificial gifts (by the label ...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Not a dichotomy, a trichotomy!

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It is common for people to think that we live in a world of dichotomy between good and evil. The previous interpretation suggests a further ...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Chaos!

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Divine presence in the ancient world has significance not just in regard to enabling relationship of some sort between humans and deity but ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Deterministic?

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miqreh can be employed for both “fortune” and “misfortune,” which offers a vantage point for understanding one of the HB’s most profound an...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

No! The corona virus isn't a judgment from God!

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How's that for click bait? But, seriously, read this disclaimer and take it to heart because they are correct. Even as we present the ...