“If the Christian position with respect to creation, that is, with respect to the idea of the origin of both the subject and the object of human knowledge is true, there is and must be objective knowledge. In that case the world of objects was made in order that the subject of knowledge, namely man, [...]
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A Literal Creation, A Literal Fall, And Literal Redemption
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In the past week I’ve learned of two guys whose life ended in what we would call a premature manner. One was forty-two years of age and died suddenly. The other was twenty-six years of age and he, too, died suddenly. These things shock us. We don’t expect those things to happen. We understand deep within [...]
The Hermeneutics of Insider Syncretism
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On this week’s episode of the Christ the Center podcast (#263, “Insider Movements“), Dr. David Garner is interviewed about his recent article in Themelios, “High Stakes: Insider Movement Hermeneutics and the Gospel,” analyzing the hermeneutics underlying the Insider Movement, a sociological and anthropological approach to contextualizing evangelism without calling on people whose identities are tied […]
They Called Jesus A Blasphemer, Too.
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For the last year or so I have refused to take the bait from Joel and folk of his kind. I simply haven’t the time for foolishness, straw men, liberalism, and the desire to misconstrue the things that are said by those with whom he disagrees. Today, however, he decided to call me a blasphemer. Oh, he didn’t use that word directly: he just said that my words about Genesis were blasphemous. That is essentially the same as calling me a blasphemer. The problem is that Joel willingly refuses to see that Jesus is the Creator (John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-19,Hebrews 1:1-4 etc.) When one speaks of God’s act of Creation, one speaks of Jesus creating. Far from denying the centrality of Jesus, I emphasize it. It is also the reason I will not compromise with unbiblical and irrational worldviews that deny that inherent and eternal authority of Christ as He is revealed to us in Scripture. Instead of denying the centrality of Jesus, my beliefs concerning Jesus give Him His proper place not only as Creator, but as the autonomous God who reveals Himself to us in His Word (Scripture). That is very different from trying to be autonomous and [...]
God,Creation,And Hermeneutics
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God’s act of creation is the foundation for the entire biblical history. ESVSB Gen 1:1 If the foundation of a house is not square, or level, the whole house will be difficult to build correctly. There will have to be serious adjustments to the rest of the building, the building will be unlevel or not squared, or the foundation will have to be reworked. It is the same with our understanding of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we get them wrong, the whole of our biblical understanding will be out of line to some degree.