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A constant premise of Geocreationism for me has been that Moses wrote Genesis 1 in a literal fashion, and that we should interpret it likewise.  In the last six months, I modified that slightly when I learned of the scientific perspectives of mankind at the time, and had my eyes opened to Moses’ consistency with that perspective in his writing.  Did that negate my premise?  Not entirely.  Moses still meant Genesis 1 literally.  He just did not realize the actual scientific details of what he wrote.  Instead, he took the truth, and described it in the clearest terms that he could… which were the scientific terms and imagery of his time.  Determining what really happened from what Moses has a been like solving a riddle, but once you back out of his …

I know that on occasion, I am sent into a situation as an emissary of Christ.  Surely it happens more than I realize, but there are times when it is crystal clear, and I need to be confident that I will speak as Christ wants me to speak.  This morning, I was reading through Exodus 4, and I was struck by the symbology of what God told Moses when he hesitated to act as God’s emissary to the slaves in Egypt.  Exodus 4:1-4 reads:
4:1 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A …

Yesterday, my read-through-bible-in-a-year plan happened to consist of Genesis 41 and Matthew 13.  I say “happened to” because I saw a very interesting connection between them.

Genesis 41 talks about the Pharaoh’s dreams, where 7 seven skinny cows ate 7 seven fat cows, and then 7 whithered ears of corn ate 7 good ears.  Matthew 13 had Jesus’ parable of the sower, weeds, and mustard, accompanied with an explanation of why he talks in parables.  Let me show you the connections that I made.  It was pretty cool.  You can read along in the scriptures here if you like.

In Matthew 13:1-9, Jesus tells of different kinds of seeds.  Seeds along the path get eaten by the birds.  Seeds along …

My devotional for today was Genesis 27, where Isaac blesses Jacob, thinking it was Esau.  For those unfamiliar with that scripture, the gist of it is that Jacob’s mother Rebekkah convinced Jacob to steal his brother’s blessing from their father, Isaac.  At his mother’s behest, Jacob got two young goats.  She prepared them as his father liked, and then put the goat skins over Jacob’s neck and arms, so that his skin would feel like his brother’s.  Pulling this off required haste, and his father noticed.  Notice though how Jacob lies:
18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am …

One of the things I like about writing of Creation is that Genesis 1 is about more than just Creation.  It tells the story of Jesus.  I write about this in detail in Separation in Creation Confirms Trinity, but I want to remind you of an ineteresting parallel to Day 2, as lived out by Jesus:
Separation #2
The second separating event for Him was His birth, a physical separation from His mother.  Through Mary’s pregnancy, Jesus grew, an expanse within the waters of Mary’s womb. And on the day of Christ’s birth, God separated Mary’s waters from her waters, and Jesus was born.
No matter what you believe about Creation, the age of …

As discussed in Day 5 - Determining a Date (Part 2), God commanded the birds to fill the air a little less than 65 million years ago.  Shortly after (geologically speaking), the fossil record shows an immense explosion in the quantity and variety of birds that existed.  According the fossil record, this happened within the era in which small to large sea life evolved, but before the majority of modern land mammals evolved… conveniently in line with scripture.

I now want to look at the creation of birds a little more closely, just to make sure the scriptures really say what I think do.  Here are the key sections of …

 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23 
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 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23
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 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23
Day 5 was not straightforward to date.  As described …

Recently, I discussed several common scientific misunderstandings that YECs have when arguing against Evolution.  One of the misunderstandings was that many Evolutionists are so invested in Evolution that they ascribe almost a mystical cause to it all.  I suggested that Theistic Evolutionists do exactly that, but the “mystical” influence they ascribe it all to is God.  I then made the point if that YECs can believe God created the world, then why shouldn’t Theistic Evolutionists believe it?  Well, here is an article that tries to answer that question.  It is an article by Werner Gitt entitled 10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution.  Such articles are important to understand, because if a Christian reads it, they could be convinced that …