Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things. This ordering plays an ongoing role among the Hebrew people. The ...

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“This video is a survey of how the days of creation in Genesis chapter 1 were understood within the early church. It won’t be totally exhaustive, but we’ll go pretty deep. It’ll be a long video.” - ...

We can humbly seek their wisdom without treating them as mascots for one position or another. Through that process, I became personally (and painfully) aware of how heated Genesis 1 controversies ...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God ...

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In Genesis 2, some people think that the story goes on to give more detail about the creation of humans, seen as two individuals, Adam and Eve. Many Christians do not believe this story to be true in ...