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All Blog Posts With Tag: genesis
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Why the Historical Adam was Mortal before the Fall (September 2, 2017)
Was the Historical Adam ever immortal? Wolfhart Pannenberg says that if we look closely at the biblical text, then we will discover that the answer is no! Pannenberg believes that the Fall caused a shortening of human life, but this does not mean that humanity was ever immortal before the […]
(This is an expanded edition of an article that was originally published at biologos.org)
Evangelicals today are faced with many hard questions on the doctrine of creation, such as how the biblical creation stories are reconciled with evolutionary science, how to interpret the creation stories in the Bible, and whether there was […]
Karl Rahner on why Genesis 1-11 is not an Eyewitness Account (April 12, 2014)
Often it is alleged that Genesis 1-11 is an eye-witness account, and even if Adam was not there in the beginning of Genesis 1-2, then God was certainly there as an eyewitness. But this will not do! Karl Rahner explains why it is a travesty to treat the proto-history of […]
Emil Brunner and Alister McGrath on the Doctrine of Creation (January 22, 2014)
Should Genesis 1-2 be used to define our Doctrine of Creation? Alister E. McGrath's excellent three volume study on the relationship between Theology and Natural Science contained an excellent quote demonstrating that beginning with the first two chapters of the Bible, due to it's prime real estate location in the […]