Archives for “Covenant Creation”

The place of God’s providence in my theology

I have been musing lately about how my stance on the creation/evolution controversy would impact other areas of theology if applied consistently. The stance I’m referring to is my conviction that viewing the history of the natural universe as a string of miraculous interventions into nature is hopelessly misguided. I have argued that the atheistic [...] Related posts:

  1. My position on the origins question
  2. Mohler on theistic evolution
  3. The Truth Project and critical thinking

View Comments Posted by Steve on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 11:42 pm.

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Life in God’s Garden

Summary of Part One God the Gardener created a son (Lk 3.38) to tend the garden. God, as a father, was training up his children Adam and Eve in the garden. Adam was put in a garden for instruction because gardening requires faith: both faithfulness in tending day by day and faith that what is planted and cultivated [...] Related posts:

  1. The Garden of Eden: thoughts from Tim Martin
  2. Indiana Jones and the Fall of Man
  3. Are the early Genesis stories historical accounts?

View Comments Posted by Steve on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 3:55 pm.

Filed under Covenant Creation, Hermeneutics, Preterism, Scripture, The Fall, Theology, , .

The Garden of Eden: thoughts from Tim Martin

When I was at Truthvoice 2008 a month ago, the co-author of Beyond Creation Science, Tim Martin, gave two talks that I thought were worthy of discussion on my blog. Here are my thoughts on the first talk. [Note: I am summarizing based on the notes I took, and I honestly hope I misrepresent nothing he [...] Related posts:

  1. Life in God’s Garden
  2. Indiana Jones and the Fall of Man
  3. Progressive revelation

View Comments Posted by Steve on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 12:39 am.

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