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In How Long were Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden? I showed that it was reasonable to assume that Cain married a descendant of Adam and Eve.  Using reasonable assumptions, I showed that there could easily have been over 20,000 people descended from Adam and Eve when Cain killed Abel.  That is plenty from which to choose a wife, and then go to make a city for.  This should be an easy argument for a Young Earther to adopt (except where I suggest that Adam was 18 years old when placed in the garden), and in fact I find elements of this kind of …

…continued Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 7)
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 2)
 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
       “Cursed are you above all the livestock
       and all the wild animals!
       You will crawl on your belly
       and you will eat dust
       all the days of your life.
In my post Reconciling Evolution with Scripture (Part 4), I describe a concept of evolution that I am increasingly inclined to believe.  Basically, scientists are correct about species descending from other species.  However, the transitions did not happen by random mutation; …

Having discussed Original Sin - Where O death is your sting? (A study of 1 Corinthians 15) and Original Sin - Romans 5:12 - We Inherit Spiritual Death, I would like to now discuss how previous Christian Theologians have addressed it.  In particular, I would like to address Calvin and Wesley.  I am admittedly no expert in them, but I want to address two quotes of theirs that I found on Wikipedia.

First, to rehash my own position, I believe that when God breathed life into Adam, He was giving Adam something to believe, much as He did Abram.  Adam believed it, and God saw …

Continuing on with our line of inquiry from Reconciling Evolution with Scripture, it is instructive to review exactly what Young Earthers tend to find wrong with Evolution: the idea that the fortuitous changes recorded in the fossil record could possibly be random.  Nobody argues with the concept of Natural Selection itself, which deals the survivability of a species once a change has occurred. What people do argue against however is the idea that these changes can occur on their own and at random.  There are several approaches to this, several particular criticisms, and several responses to each, and I do not think I need to cover them all. However, I don’t have …

The general consensus of Genesis 2, whether one be atheist or Young Earther, is that the creation account in Genesis 2 generally recounts the creation described in Genesis 1.  This is mostly because Genesis 2 appears to describe creation of the very same items described in the 6 days of Creation of Genesis 1.  Other observations are the sudden change in style, and the similarities to creation myths from contemporary cultures that Moses would have known about when he wrote Genesis.  However, some people treat Genesis 2 as sequential with Genesis 1.  For me, I see a combination of the two.

In my opinion, Genesis 2 contains both a summary of Genesis 1, and then continues beyond it.  However, I don’t …

As I’ve picked up with blogging on Geocreationism again, I will eventually arrive at the place where Adam and Eve commit the first sin… what Adam is credited with as “Original Sin”.  I figured I would get a leg up on what scripture has to say about it.

The first verse in the Bible that uses the word “sin” is actually after the first sin has been committed.  The verse is Genesis 4:7, and the passage reads as follows:
 1 Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his …

I thought I would share this snippet from my Open Enrollment form this year for my medical coverage:

“The recently enacted health care reform law prohibits health flexible spending accounts and health reimbursement arrangement from reimbursing for OTC drug expenses for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2010.”
Obama has said that if I like my plan, I can keep it… implying no negative impact to me.  Though admittedly not a huge impact, very small in fact, this is a negative non-zero impact.  Also notice this will disproportionately impact lower income families who try to minimize their costs by treating with common-sense and over-the-counter medications before going to the doctor.

Where I might have welcomed a change to my plan, is where …

Peter is writing a message of righteousness, aboudn the opportunity for belief and obedience through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, leading first to goodness and then finally to love.  However, as Peter points out, there are false prophets who come with messages all the time.  They’re easy to dismiss if you refuse to acknowledge any and all messengers regardless of message.  However, true prophets, such as Peter, are obliged to come and deliver their message, because their message is not for storing away secretly.  It is for sharing, for the benefit of all, not only for the benefit of the prophet.  False prophets are of a different ilk, spreadking messages only for their own good, and should be guarded against.  But, …

In 2 Peter 1, Peter emphatically urges people to act on what they know of Christ and God, lest they backslide.  Not all Christians will backslide, but you do not know for sure if you are one of the them who will, and because a man can backslide to the point of abandoning all hope in God, a point at which you would willfully step away from God’s election, you must therefore do all you can to not become one of them.  Of course, backsliding does not surely result in abandonding your salvation, but it potentially does.  You may even be sure that you would never walk away, but then what of your witness to others?  And frankly, why take that chance? And taking chances aside, just look at …