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Category Archives: Theology
God’s Good Earth – Chapter 5: Creation Fell in 1500
Here is a link to chapter 5 of my book.
Posted in Creation, History, Theology
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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 4: Powers and Principalities
Here is a link to chapter 4 of my book.
Posted in Creation, Theology
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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 3: Other Red Herrings
Here is a link to chapter 3 of my book.
Posted in Creation, Theology
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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 2: Scripture on the Fall
Here is a link to chapter 2 of my book.
Posted in Creation, Theology
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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 1: God’s Relationship to Creation
Here is the link to the first chapter proper of my book on the goodness of creation.
Posted in Creation, Theology
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My book at last – in samizdat
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.
Posted in Creation, Science, Theology
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Monotheism and automata
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.
Posted in Creation, Philosophy, Science, Theology
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Monotheism 101
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
Posted in Creation, Theology
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Our 5th birthday – Happy Birthday
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.
Posted in Creation, Science, Theology
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The right time isn’t always now
“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.”