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“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.” quote by John H. Walton — Download Open image

“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”

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“THERE IS GOOD REASON why Christian theologians consider theodicy the unsolvable theological issue. The reason is this: It is unsolvable.”

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“Though we cannot expect to be able to think like they thought, or read their minds, or penetrate very deeply into so much that…

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“If we follow the sense of the literature and its ideas of creation, we find that people in the ancient Near East did not…

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Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

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“The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which…

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“The Old World science found in the Bible would not be considered “wrong” or “false” as much as it would just offer a perspective…

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“In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own…

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“Art that is based on scenes from the Bible is not better than art that is based on scenes from, say, Shakespeare or Homer…

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“impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible’s message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the…

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Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

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“We cannot have all the answers, Job; we don’t even know all the questions.”

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“Though we recognize distinct cultural differences across time and place, the commonalities warrant our attention. To think about how these ancient commonalities need to…

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