Back in August I wrote a four-part post series in which I critiqued the “book review” of Elizabeth Mitchell from Answers in Genesis on Peter Enns’ book, The Bible Tells Me So. You can read my posts, beginning here. I ended up writing four posts on Mitchell’s “book review” because I felt it necessary to…
Here is the rest of my book review of Karl Giberson’s book, Saving the Original Sinner. Chapter 6: The Origin of Mrs. Cain (and the Posse that Chased her Husband) In chapter 6, Giberson takes us on a brief jaunt through the 16th and 17th centuries. The overall gist of the chapter is that with the…
Today I wish to briefly review the first half of Karl Giberson’s book, Saving the Original Sinner. It is “Black Friday,” and I’m sitting at Starbucks, drinking my morning coffee. So consider this not so much of a “formal” book review, as it is more of a chat over coffee about a very good book I’ve…
Karl Giberson is a Christian scholar and scientist who is at the forefront of the current “creation/evolution” debate in the United States. Among his other accomplishments, he has taught at the college level for over 30 years, written numerous books, and served as vice-president at BioLogos from 2009-2011. And, as far as Ken Ham and…
In this post, I share yet another song from my childhood that was pivotal in the formation of my very worldview: Bob Bennett’s “Heart of the Matter.” On the same album with A Song About Baseball, Bob Bennett had a song entitled Heart of the Matter—it served as the closing song, and given the fact that the…
A little over a year ago, in a November 13, 2014 blog post entitled, “Brought Back to Christianity by Compromise?” Ken Ham attacked Brad Kramer, the content editor for BioLogos, who wrote on his own spiritual journey and how he came to accept theistic evolution. You Thought This Through? You Clearly Weren’t Critically Thinking! Now,…
In the past five posts, I have been discussing Irenaeus of Lyon, an early Church Father from the second century, and his claim that the earliest Church saw Adam and Eve as children who, though created in God’s image, had not yet reached full maturity and God likeness, and whose sin was one of childish…
Today as I was scrolling through my Twitter account, I came across a new post from Answers in Genesis entitled, “Did We Really Land on the Moon?” It’s a relatively short post, but I simply couldn’t believe what I was reading. This might be one of the most ironic things I’ve read in a long time….
In his article “Our Hearts of Darkness: Original Sin Revisited,” in Theological Studies 49 (1988) (597-621), Father Stephen J. Duffy sums up Irenaeus’ teaching on Adam and humanity in this way: “For Irenaeus, the unification of creation and redemption in a single order is pivotal. Perfection is at the end, not at the beginning; hope burns…
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 truly the Alpha and Omega of the entire creation. He saw God’s fundamental purpose for creation as being to bring all creation to fullness in Christ. That was…