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Genesis

Holy Hilarity: A Funny Study of Genesis: A Review

June 24, 2017 by Randal

Mark Roncace. Holy Hilarity: A Funny Study of Genesis (Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 2016). I was a big fan of Mark Roncace’s previous book God’s Story. I also very much enjoyed Raw Revelation (albeit with some reservations). So when he offered to send me a review copy of his latest popular study, Holy Hilarity, I welcomed the opportunity. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Genesis, Holy Hilarity, humor, Mark Roncace, review

57. Terry Mortenson on Creationism

January 5, 2015 by Randal

When I was in high school I gave my science teacher a copy of Paul Ackerman’s book It’s a Young World After All. The book aimed to show that evolution was false and the earth was a mere six to ten thousand years old. My science teacher politely received the gift and then, for all I […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, creationism, evolution, Genesis, hermeneutics, science, six day creationism, Terry Mortenson, young earth creationism

Ronald E. Osborn against the idea of a global flood

May 28, 2014 by Randal

Last week I reviewed Ronald E. Osborn’s book Death Before the Fall.  Given the relatively eclectic nature of the book, I was unable to interact with some themes and interesting ideas that appear in the book. So I am going to be writing a few supplementary posts highlighting some of those additional aspects of the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Genesis, global flood, Ronald Osborn, young earth creationism

Accords, Elans, and Biblical Interpretation

March 28, 2012 by Randal

The long discussion of Mr. A and Ms. B may have laid out one way to appropriate the Genesis creation/fall narrative in light of current understandings of earth history, but it has not solved all our problems or answered all our questions. Beetle asks: Ms. B never circles adequately back to Mr. A’s concern over […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Genesis, hermeneutics

How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture

July 25, 2011 by Randal

Christian fundamentalists like to trumpet the authority of scripture over all things. Unfortunately the way that fundamentalists read scripture tends to undermine that authority. The key problem is that fundamentalists widely subscribe to a hermeneutical (that is interpretive) principle that the text should be interpreted literally when possible. This is how George Marsden, perhaps the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, fundamentalism, Genesis, George Marsden, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, John Walvoord, Ken Ham, literal interpretation

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