Biblical Critical Theory
When Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their relationship undergoes a striking degradation. They begin accusing each other of wrongdoing (3:12-13) and become ashamed (317, 10) and defensive (3:12-13). "Their relationship descends to a zero-sum game of power and domination (3:16b) with each trying to ou
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Don’t see my shame and guilt!
One of the crucial pennies to drop in the minds of those who find their way to faith in their adult years is often the realization that, if there really is a God such as the Bible reveals him to be, then he is smarter than I am and his judgement is more reliable than mine: if he and I differ on a matter, and if he is really God and I am really a cr
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Either God is who He claims to be or I have to be god on my own and we have seen how that goes - not well.
Interesting side thought. This sort of assumes that there MUST be a god, the question is who do we place in the role. Even self-proclaimed agnostics have to have *something* as a god.
The relationship between God and his creation also marks another way in which the Bible provides a distinctive account of reality. Western thought has long wrestled with the distinction between the transcendent and the immanent. Something is transcendent (from the Latin transcendere, meaning "to climb over," "climb beyond," or &
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The answer and what a wonderful answer it is-is that God has not created a world with just enough sustenance, variety, and abundance for survival, but God created a superabundant world fit to foster the flourishing of his creatures. He has not limited supply to the level of demand. Why have one or even one thousand species when you can have an esti
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Van Til argues that in Genesis 3, Satan tempts Eve to be a rationalist, but in so doing he puts her in an ultimately irrational position
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"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it" (Gen 3:6). There are two echoes in these verses. The first is an echo of Genesis 1. Eve "saw" that the tree
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"The idea of the Fall is at bottom a proud idea, and through it man escapes from the sense of humiliation. If man fell away from God he must have been an exalted creature, endowed with great freedom and power." Only the exalted can be wretched; only the lofty can fall.
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Not only does God's personalness make sense of a universe full of individual things, but it also bestows a weight and a dignity on individual persons: on you, on me, and on every last person living in the favelas of São Paulo. If personalness is something that just happened to emerge somewhere along the evolutionary line and that, who knows, will p
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What a sad and disappointing existence to believe that we all are just here consuming air for a short period of time with no greater purpose.
This is a god, Lewis continues, to which the naturalist can hardly object. By contrast, "What Naturalism cannot accept is the idea of a God who stands outside Nature and made it.