The genealogies found in the book of Genesis have long been viewed as a tool that can be used to arrive at a date of creation and the beginning of humanity and the earth. With this article, Andrew E. Steinmann offers an alternate lens through which the genealogies should be viewed. The view proposed by […]
In the previous post in this series we looked at the challenge of Platonism, the view that abstract objects exist. We also looked at what it affirms, and the argument in favor of it. In other previous posts we looked at the traditional Christian understanding of God’s self existence, or aseity. Now that we have […]
This post is a continuation on the interpretive difficulties surrounding the phrase “sons of God” in Genesis 6.2. We have spent some time looking at the view that the sons were angels who cohabited with women and produced human/angel hybrid offspring, as well as the view that the sons are rulers or kings who took […]
In our previous post, we looked at the interpretation that the “sons of God” in Genesis 6.2 are angels. I came to the conclusion that this interpretation is inadequate for a number of reasons. With this post we will look at another view that has gained in popularity over the years, the Dynastic Ruler Interpretation. In […]
Perhaps no part of the book of Genesis has posed more interpretive and exegetical difficulties than the first four verses of chapter 6. In these verses we read: (1)When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, (2) the sons of God saw that the daughters of […]
Over the last month or two I’ve been teaching a Sunday school class on Christian apologetics, going over different arguments that have been put forward through the decades and centuries. I decided I would go ahead and put them onto my blog and give a barebones sketch of the arguments. The core of the classes […]
Some of my readers may not have noticed, but in the last few weeks I have upgraded my WordPress blog and registered my own domain! Now instead of Fieldsofthought.wordpress.com, my domain is just FieldsOfThought.blog. This is an exiting step for me, and as this blog is coming up on ten years old, I wanted to […]
My family and I recently took a trip to the Ark Encounter attraction produced by Ken Ham. I have a lot of mixed feelings about Ham’s ministry, and the degree to which he emphasizes young earth creationism. But while I was there I picked up a book that caught my eye. It was a small […]
With this chapter we see Craig examine the argument in favor of the existence of abstract objects. While I am offering a brief summary of the chapter, you can listen to William Lane Craig deliver a more in depth lecture on this exact topic in a video on his YouTube channel here. The Indespesability Argument […]
In our previous post we looked at how the Apostle Paul thought about God being the sole ultimate reality. With this post we look beyond the New Testament and examine the understanding of the early Church Fathers. What Craig argues is that the early Church Fathers also considered God to be the sole ultimate reality. […]
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