Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Genesis 1: Days 4-6
[This post is part of the Genesis series] Maybe, just maybe, I can get one of these Genesis posts to come in under 1000 words. That’s always the goal, but I usually fail in meeting it. Let’s see if this one can do the trick. While Days 1-3 established functions, Days 4-6 install functionaries. This should immediately…
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Genesis 1: Days 1-3
[This post is part of the Genesis series] It’s not often I write a post that is basically adapted from a powerpoint presentation, but since I’ve been teaching this in small group, I am basically just expanding on my own slides. Given that the slides themselves are derived from Dr. Johnston’s class notes and John Walton’s books,…
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Genesis 1: Structure
[This post is part of the Genesis series] At this point we are actually getting a bit closer to moving through the narrative. This hopefully will be a shorter post that highlights the structure of the account before we move into looking at the actual days, probably grouped together 1-3 and then 4-6. Genesis 1 itself is…
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Genesis 1: Introduction
[This post is part of the Genesis series] John Walton’s book The Lost World of Genesis One and the commentary I will cite below are the main sources I am relying on for discussion, as well as an unpublished paper by my Hebrew professor, Gordon Johnston on the Egyptian influence on Genesis 1. Dr. Johnston first introduced…
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Genesis: Backgrounds (B)
[This post is part of the Genesis series] Hopefully we won’t need a (C) to unpack the context of Genesis 1. As I remember, point (C) can tend to stir up controversy. The fundamental point from the last post to keep in mind as we go on is that for something to exist in the ancient world,…
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Genesis: Backgrounds (A)
[This post is part of the Genesis series] Before we can really meaningfully understand what is going on in Genesis, we need to establish some sort of context. The book itself makes the most sense as the introduction to the rest of the Pentateuch as written by Moses. I realize there are other options for authorship, but…
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The Enthymeme of Unbelief
Rather than blogging over the last week, most of my attention was diverted to the comment thread on Idolatry: Pharisees (C). If I wanted to I suppose, I could highlight most of my arguments throughout and use as an example of apologetics, both in the historical sense of apologetics from history and in the philosophical…
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Thoughts on Genesis
[This post is part of the Genesis series] Howard Hendricks, who is a much distinguished teacher of Christian Education here at Dallas Seminary has been quoted as saying that “In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering,” Unfortunately, this is painfully true in more areas that just one. However, one area that is…
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Reflections on Controversy
Rather than push ahead with other topics, once again it seemed like it might be better to ruminate a bit over the dialogue that I had with Pelagian7 over the weekend. You can read the comment string here if you would like, as it will make sense of the following commentary on it. For starters,…
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Pharisees (C) revisited
This post might actually succeed in being shorter than usual, but we’ll say. I debated importing the comment thread from Idolatry: Pharisees (C) into a post of its own, but I’ll just comment on it briefly instead. Starting with comment 3 a user named Pelgian7 offered insights obliquely related to the actual content of the…
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