A Brief Look at Ecclesiastes: Part 2 (Solomon, Adam, Jesus, and the Human Experience)
Here in my second post on Ecclesiastes, I want to touch upon two other things in Ecclesiastes that I feel are quite important for understanding Ecclesiastes as ...
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Revelation 1:1-8–John’s Introduction…(if you skip over it, you’re missing A LOT!) (Part 2)
As I begin to go through Revelation, I think it would be smart to first address the pink elephant in the room: the book of Revelation is not a prediction of a f...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapter 5:12-21–Adam and Christ, What is Paul Really Talking About? (Spoiler Alert: Not Original Sin or the Historicity of Adam) (Part 10)
We now come to Romans 5:12-21, a section, ironically that is often used by young earth creationists to argue for the historicity of Adam. The argument basically...
Irenaeus of Lyons: There’s No “Plan B” in Christ–He is it, the Alpha and Omega (Part 4)
In order to understand what Irenaeus was driving at by emphasizing that Adam and Eve were children, you need to first understand that Irenaeus saw Christ as tru...
Irenaeus of Lyon, and the Early Church’s Teaching of Adam and Eve (Part 1)
Over the past year and a half, I have been doing quite a lot research and writing about the young earth creationist movement of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. ...
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Importance of Myth (…and how it relates to Genesis 1-11)
One of the biggest controversies within many Evangelical circles today revolves around the interpretation of Genesis 1-11. As I have written about many times, y...