GeoCreationism.com

I just completed several article for the history section of GeoCreationism.com. They generally build on each other. What has been the most fascinating aspect of this study is how the dates fall out of the study. For example, using someone else’s meticulously researched date for the Flood (2807 BC) and someone else’s for the Exodus (1449BC), I mere took the conversion factor of 1.083 to the Biblical durations, laid out the periods before the Exodus end-to-end, and it all fell into place.

Note that the 1.083 is the conversion between 364-day solar years and 336-day lunar years. The theory (borrowed from Bendedek’s King’s Calendar research) is that at some point, the 365-day nature of the biblical was lost… thought to communicate …

I am currently writing about my dating for Adam’s birth, or at least his re-birth in Christ in Genesis 2:7. In the process, I decided to compare my dates to the Hebrew Calendar. I already knew they would be different, but this was really suprising. First, here the dates I computed from Adam through the Flood. These are computed by taking the durations in scripture, and converting them from lunar to solar years, using the same conversion ratio of 1.083 that I borrowed from the King’s Calendar to compute the events from the flood the Exodus. Recall that the Flood was computed to be in 2807 BC. Here are the dates I arrived at:…

One of the difficult aspects of Christianity is the sheer number of ideas upon which one can build their faith… or wreck it. Some build their faith on their confidence that people don’t choose God; God chooses them. This can also bring doubts, wondering whether God really chose them, so does their choosing God really matter? On the other hand, if they choose God, they’ll find that God actually chose them first, and then they build their faith on that. Foundation: God chose them.

Some people build their faith on the idea that they cannot earn their way to Heaven. Good thing, because of the past wrongs they’ve done in their life. But, they believe in Christ’s sacrifice for them and …

I respect Catholics. The more religious ones are fine witnesses of what an emissary of Christ should be. Well, I have several protestant friends who used to be Catholics. Their religion was keeping them away from God when God was calling them to come closer.

I was at one friend’s house the other day, and we were discussing Catholicism and his realization as a youth that he did not need an intermediary to speak with God. Eventually, that realization would change His walk with God, and his life.

To my Catholic readers, I invite you to consider the following scripture, taken from Mark 2:5-12…
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”…

With my previous post, Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Conclusion), I believe I have finally completed my initial primary study of the creation scriptures. Surely, there is always more to go, but after 5 years of blogging, I am finally through the section of scripture that is most controversial in regards to origins. And so, as I pray and meditate on what to do next with my studies of creation, I will turn to simple devotionals…

My devotional this morning included two interesting passages that caught my attention…
 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to …

I will now bring together the first three installments of this series, to make the point that when you study the Tower of Babel of from a Young Earth perspective, you should in fact conclude that an Old Earth perspective is worth consideration.

By Studying the Hebrew

In Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Part 1), we discussed the use of eretz in Genesis 11. It would seem that the first use of eretz in Genesis 11:9 refers to the people of Shinar, and is geographically limited in scope. Even a Young Earther believes this particular usage of eretz is geographically limited to Shinar, if only because he believes that the people of Shinar were the only people in the …

Noah > Ham > Cush > Nimrod >> Kalneh

Kalneh is one of the cities that scripture records Nimrod ruling. It’s location is uncertain, but is certainly within Shinar, probably not too far from Babylon. There have been several attempts to locate it, but none with certainty. There are no Kings that I found, no modern cities that are clearly descended from them, no real events passed down through the ages. However, there is information through which one might put together some story.

Kalneh and its possible variants appear in the following four verses:

Genesis 10:10 - The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. 
Amos 6:2 - Go to …

As I have been writing about the dates of events in Genesis relative to recorded history, it dawned on me how arrogant it must look, interpreting the time lines of Moses a bit differently than tradition. But, when the dates I computed mapped historical and scientific dates to Biblical durations exactly, it was frankly quite exciting. Still, it suggests that there is some error in the Jewish interpretation (and Christian for that matter) of Genesis, in particular the years that Israel spent in Egypt.  Here is the chronology of events I computed and blogged on several months ago, from The Flood to the completion of the Temple…

2807 BC - Flood Begins
2806 BC - Flood Ends
2380 BC - God’s covenant with …

Exodus 9:31-32
The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.
Have you ever been led by God, just to see Him destroy something you had nurtured? Take comfort in this verse. Sometimes, in the midst of your faith, God destroys what you have nurtured, so that He can bring about a new creation of His own.

Devotional Verse: Genesis 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” - Where were you in the presence of the LORD, but did not realize it?

Noah > Shem > Aram > Hul
Noah > Shem > Aram > Gether

Hul and Gether are mentioned only in Genesis 10:23 and 1 Chronicles 1:17. Neither Wikipedia nor BibleAtlas.org say anything significant of them, though Gether is part of Arabic tradition.