Making Sense of Genesis 3 (Part 1): The Big Picture, Nakedness, and Two Trees
Genesis 3 is one of key stories in all of Scripture that virtually everyone knows at least a little bit about: the story commonly called “The Fall,” where Adam ...
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Making Sense of Genesis 2: The Vocation of Man; The Creation of Woman
The Formation of Man, and His Vocation as a Priest With God’s royal Temple gardens described in Genesis 2:4-14 (see my previous post here), it is only fitting t...
Making Sense of Genesis 2: The Garden of Eden
What comes to mind when you think of “The Garden of Eden”? Chances are that your mind will immediately jump to some picture you saw from a 3rd grade Sunday Scho...
Making Sense of Genesis 1: The Fundamental Biblical Worldview
Some of the most hotly-contested chapters in the entire Bible these days are those found in Genesis 1-11. Young Earth Creationists argue that they are literal h...
Answers in Genesis’ Explanation of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Why Bad Presuppositions Can Lead to a Very Anemic Reading of the Biblical Text
Allow me to begin this post with a brief re-telling of Genesis 2-3… A Truncated Telling of Genesis 2-3 As God was showing the man around the garden, He pointed ...
Andy Walsh’s “Faith Across the Multiverse”: Yes, Believe it or Not, Science Really Can Illuminate the Christian Faith!
A couple of months ago, Andy Walsh contacted me and asked if I would do a book review of his upcoming book, Faith Across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Sc...
The Jewish War Series (Part 20): The Conclusion to the War; The End of John of Gischala and Simon ben-Gioras
On the 20th day of Ab (mid-late August) Titus ordered his army to raise the banks further against the upper city, on the west side of the city over against the ...
The Jewish War Series (Part 19): Neglected Signs of Judgment and Failed Negotiations
The lower city had been largely taken earlier. The Temple Mount was now in Roman hands, and the Temple itself had been burned to the ground. All throughout the ...
The Jewish War Series (Part 18): Titus Destroys the Temple
Every day the zealots, although holed up within the inner court of the Temple, fought off the Roman soldiers who were at the gates and on the banks. Then, on th...
The Jewish War Series (Part 17): The Taking of the Tower of Antonia and Battles in the Temple Precincts
By the first day of Tamuz (mid-July), the stench of death and pestilence filled the city. It was then that the zealots fully came to realize that there was no h...