Category Archives: Theology

God’s Good Earth – Chapter 4: Powers and Principalities

Posted on 07/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is a link to chapter 4 of my book.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 3: Other Red Herrings

Posted on 04/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is a link to chapter 3 of my book.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 2: Scripture on the Fall

Posted on 31/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is a link to chapter 2 of my book.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 1: God’s Relationship to Creation

Posted on 28/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is the link to the first chapter proper of my book on the goodness of creation.

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My book at last – in samizdat

Posted on 22/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

I’ve been mulling over what to do with a project that has been languishing for far too long – a study on the myth that the natural world fell when mankind first sinned. A brief summary of a long story may help orientate things.

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Monotheism and automata

Posted on 13/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

In my last post I suggested that failure to deal adequately with the implications of monotheism itself leads directly to many erroneous ideas in both theology as such and in understanding the relationship of God to creation, including evolution.

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Monotheism 101

Posted on 10/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

Once again in a thread conversation at BioLogos, some Christian with a scientific background suggests that maybe God didn’t plan the details of biological forms below a certain level, such as (for example) quadrupeds, fish etc, “allowing” evolution to fill in the details. Interestingly this would be consistent with the Creationist concept of baramins derived from the “kinds” of Genesis, which are in fact pretty much as vague (animals being divided only into domestic, prey-animals and carnivores, for example). But that’s a conversation for another time. Eddie pointed out that such an open-ended picture of creation runs contrary to traditional ideas of sovereignty. But I want to go further to … Continue reading →

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Our 5th birthday – Happy Birthday

Posted on 27/02/2016 by Jon Garvey

It’s actually five years ago today that I started this blog, The Hump of the Camel. That’s quite a decent lifespan for a blog, and it’s time to reflect on what, if anything, we’ve achieved.

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The right time isn’t always now

Posted on 23/02/2016 by Jon Garvey

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans 5.6. Doing a teaching series currently overviewing the narrative thrust of the whole Bible, one thing that struck me was the issue of God’s timing. It’s always slower than we might wish, though again Peter says “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.”

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Denton’s Book and Biologos

Posted on 22/02/2016 by Sy Garte

Since Jon is busy with his new band, I thought I might sneak in here and fill a space. I haven’t asked him, so I hope he doesnt mind. Jon has already mentioned and linked to my book review of Michael Denton’s new book Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis. I wanted to post here some of my observations, not about the book, that is what the review is for, but about the reception of the review.

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