Why Creation Matters, Part 6: Isaiah
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I commented in the previous post that there’s a lot of Creation theology in the Latter Prophets, what Protestants call the Major and Minor Prophets. Something I didn’t mention last time is that the passage discussed in that post, 2 Kings 18.9ff, has a close parallel in Isaiah 37.14ff; the same event is described in both passages.
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Why Creation Matters, Part 5: Deliverance
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Having surveyed the first section of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Torah, or Law—the 5 books of Moses—we turn now to the second, the Prophets. This section is normally divided into the Former Prophets, what we Protestants call the books of History, and the Latter Prophets, what we call the Major and Minor Prophets. There’s a lot of creation material in the Latter Prophets, but I’m going to touch on just one passage in the Former.
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A Famous Observation Regarding the Creation of Eve
This article is reprinted from 2009, with permission, from Doug Kutilek’s free newsletter “As I See It,” then a monthly electronic magazine.
One of the most often-quoted devotional comments in Matthew Henry’s (1662-1714) famous commentary on the Bible is his remark regarding the creation of the first woman from the side of the first man (Genesis 2:21-22)—
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Rebutting Multiverses, Meta Laws, and Other Materialist Answers to Fine-Tuning
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“Williams addresses several sophisticated objections, including the idea that fine-tuning results from a more fundamental law. He uses a memorable analogy here, that of a wrinkle in the carpet, to show that this objection merely shifts the improbability elsewhere while lacking the scope to explain initial conditions.” - ID the Future
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Why Creation Matters, Part 2: From the Beginning
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Moses himself, the author of the creation account, begins to interpret and apply almost immediately. He finds his opportunity in two specific events: the initiation of the godly line, and the Great Flood.
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Did God Really Create in 6 Days?
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“So what? Why does our interpretation of the length of the creation days matter? It matters because it reveals our willingness to take God at his word and read the Scripture plainly, especially regarding doctrines deemed foolish by the world.” - Ref21
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The Revenge of the Watchmaker: The Universe Refuses to Be an Accident
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“It’s one thing to say that living organisms that mutate can eventually produce the appearance of design after millions of years. But what do you do if there is the appearance of design at the very beginning of the universe?” - Churches Without Chests
Also: Why Neo-Darwinism Can’t Take the Credit for Design of Life - ID the Future
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We Can Simultaneously Make Room in Our Hearts for God, People, and Animals
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“when we see an animal suffering, especially at the hands of other people, it’s only right that we feel upset and even indignant (and again, this does not diminish the fact that we should feel far more upset when we hear of the suffering of people, especially children).” - Randy Alcorn
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