In chapter 3 of Pete Enns’ book, Inspiration and Incarnation, he deals with another topic that can tend to make Evangelicals rather uneasy. Simply put, Enns says, “Listen, when you read the Old Testament, there is a wide range of theological diversity in it—it doesn’t all fit together in a nice and neat picture. There…
In my opinion, the best chapter in Pete Enns’ book, Inspiration and Incarnation, was Chapter 2, when he discussed the importance of reading and understanding the Old Testament within its ancient Near Eastern (ANE) context. This chapter affirmed so many things I had come to realize about the Old Testament, in both of my MA…
Ken Ham’s Claims and an Atheists Accusations—A Little Back Story If you visit Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, you are going to find, among the displays, a few things about “ancient man.” The argument that is laid out at the Ark Encounter goes something like this: Evolutionists say that our ancient ancestors were just ape-like brutes…
So what was it about Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns that was so controversial? When I first read it back in 2005, I found it to be an insightful, honest, and truthful book that addressed some of the most fundamental tenets of solid biblical exegesis. Sure, I knew full well that, like any book…
Back in 2005, I had no idea who Peter Enns was. I was simply a high school English and Worldview teacher at a small Evangelical Christian school in Arkansas. Yes, I had gotten a couple of Master’s degree in both the Old and New Testaments, and I was in the middle of working on my…
In my final post in my analysis of the movie, Is Genesis History?, I want to focus on the final segment, “Genesis and Our Culture,” where Del Tackett interviews pastor George Grant. As one will find if one reads any material from Answers in Genesis, or perhaps Ken Ham’s book, The Lie, specifically, that the…
We come now to the second to last post in which I am analyzing the YECist movie, Is Genesis History? In the last four segments of the movie, Del Tackett interviews Todd Wood in the segment, “The Potential of Created Kinds,” Danny Faulkner in the segment, “The Purpose of the Stars,” Douglas Petrovich in the…
In my first two installments of my analysis of the YEC movie, Is Genesis History?, I focused first on what I felt was intentional dishonesty on the part of those who made the movie, and then on what should have been the main focus of the movie—looking specifically at Genesis 1-11 and asking what its…
In my previous post, I began to critique the recent YECist movie, Is Genesis History? As I stated in that post, I felt the movie was fundamentally dishonest in how it even addressed the issue. First, its real focus was whether or not Genesis 1-11 was historical. Second, the as soon as the movie got…
This past February, the movie Is Genesis History? was shown in countless movie theaters across the country for one night only. It starred Del Tackett of The Truth Project by Focus on the Family, and it involved him interviewing a number of scientists regarding issues like geology, astronomy, biology, etc. in order to address the…