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 […]
I. Preliminary Remarks About Critiquing The Twenty-Four-Hour Day Theory I want to state from the outset that when I decided to do a study on the doctrine of creation and the interpretation of Genesis 1, I did not want my interpretation and study to be influenced by science. I feel like this needs to be […]
I. Introduction I doubt very much that this interpretation of Genesis 1 needs much introduction. When the topic of Creation is brought up, the first interpretation that will come to mind is most likely the 24 hour day theory. To summarize this interpretation, which is also referred to as Young Earth Creationism, this view holds […]
Just like the Literary Framework View, the Revelatory-Day Theory is a non-chronological approach to understanding Genesis 1. Meaning that this view does not take the events in the creation account as happening in the order they are presented in. Also like the Literary Framework View, this interpretation is able to neatly adapt itself to modern […]
The basis of this post comes from the book “Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe” by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears. I found this list in the book’s section on creation and thought that it was pretty unique in that I had never really seen this topic dealt with too thoroughly. Most of what you’ll see […]
Creation is a topic that I have been keenly interested in for most of my life. Over the last few years though I have been going back and reexamining everything that I had believed about creation, so that I could see what exactly lines up with Scripture, and what is more pressed into interpretations of […]
Fields of Thought 