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The banks of sweet primroses
Well, I guess that a large proportion of my readers around the world will be locked in against the Coronavirus pandemic, in one way or another. A friend in Sri Lanka is facing enforced curfews, and there are massive queues for food when they are lifted, which rather defeats the object.
Posted in Creation, Theology of nature
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Lying for Jesus = lying to Jesus
In my former life as a doctor, I was a GP, but ended up specialising in back pain, for a variety of contingent reasons.
Posted in Medicine, Science, Theology
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Cancelling society to save lives
A wise retired surgeon said on a radio phone-in yesterday that, just a few years ago, we wouldn’t even have known about COVID-19 until the pandemic was past its peak, and we would probably have concluded that it was just a particularly bad winter for elderly deaths from respiratory disease. Maybe ignorance is bliss.
Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science, Uncategorized
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God’s River of Love
Long ago God formed a River of Love. It flowed from the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ, and ran with the clear water of life, a water so powerful that when it washed against those who bathed in it, it turned their rebellion and enmity against heaven into a love that reflected God’s own, and poured out from them to share the good news of forgiveness and healing to other people. As for those who drank of that water, they were enabled to live forever in the very presence of God.
Posted in Politics and sociology, Theology
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Hump retrospective 8: the origin of spiritual evil
Satan before the Fall Because it’s unfashionable to think about Satan in science-faith discussions (which goes along with the semi-deist viewpoint that reduces the whole of existence to “God” v “Nature”), the question of what the devil was doing before the Fall, in an old earth scenario, gets little attention.
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Hump retrospective 7: the natural evolution of mankind
…with consciousness, spirit and eternal life Sy Garte, in his excellent new book The Works of His Hands, mentions three intractable problems in science (because there seems no way they can arise through “materialistic natural causes”); and all three are origins questions.
Posted in Creation, Philosophy, Science, Theology
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Faith, and faith
This is taking time out from my “retrospective” series. Does anybody else remember the old Science Fiction story about an anti-gravity machine?
Posted in Hump Retrospective, Music, Politics and sociology, Prometheus, Theology
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Hump retrospective 6: worldwide flood
In my “quest” to sort out origins questions, this “old chestnut” problem was really a question of filling in details, rather than finding entirely new solutions, because I was already aware of work by exegetes arguing that Scripture allows for a regional Flood.
Posted in History, Hump Retrospective, Science, Theology
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Hump retrospective 5: mankind late to the party
One of the theological problems I had with an old earth a decade ago is less commonly remarked than some others: if mankind was created to rule and subdue the earth, as Genesis 1 teaches, how did it manage without him for over four billion years?
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Hump retrospective 4: the impossibility of Adam
Anyone who reads The Hump regularly is well aware of the answer I found to the apparent scientific impossibility of an historical Adam and Eve. After all, that is the subject of the book of mine that came out last month, The Generations of Heaven and Earth.
Posted in Adam, Genealogical Adam, Science, Theology
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