To be like Jesus!
It's been a busy couple of weeks, getting back to the rhythm of college life after the break. Also, Leighton (my housemate) and I have been working at being more like Christ. We've decided to do some carpentry work. Two Saturdays ago, we made this little table out of some scrap wood lying around the house.
And last Saturday, after shopping around for some speaker stands for our two surround speakers (from the 5.1 sound system I brought back from Singapore this last trip) in our living room, we decided we'll be better off just making it ourselves. And after a quick trip to Bunnings and an hour of labour...
On a more academic level, I've been reading "Creation in the Old Testament" edited by Bernhard W. Anderson as part of a book review I'm doing for my OT class. Coincidentally, I've also been listening to the podcast "Doctrine of Creation" by William Lane Craig again (which I highly recommend) in my car. I've always thought that a literal reading of the creation narrative in Genesis is quite indefensible apologetically and this book actually supports that with some top evangelical scholarship. Right up to the 19th century, the churches never considered a literal creation to be a test of orthodoxy and I think that Christians who are extremely dogmatic about this should really... chill out a bit! Some church fathers like Augustine, Origen and Justin Martyr never did agree with 6 days creationism anyway.
This doesn’t mean we agree with evolution or any scientific theory that seeks to explain away the mystery of life. Quite the contrary, the text in Genesis itself doesn't appeal to a 6 literal 24 hour day in creation. To quote William Lane Craig, "the Christian, unlike the atheist is free to follow the evidence wherever it leads while the atheist is committed to Darwinian theories of evolution however improbable they are." In fact, the highly improbable characteristic of evolution and the Big Bang actually lends support to the existence of God, so there...
To be like Jesus
To be like Jesus
All I ask - to be like Him
All through life's journey
From earth to glory
All I ask - to be like Him.
And last Saturday, after shopping around for some speaker stands for our two surround speakers (from the 5.1 sound system I brought back from Singapore this last trip) in our living room, we decided we'll be better off just making it ourselves. And after a quick trip to Bunnings and an hour of labour...
On a more academic level, I've been reading "Creation in the Old Testament" edited by Bernhard W. Anderson as part of a book review I'm doing for my OT class. Coincidentally, I've also been listening to the podcast "Doctrine of Creation" by William Lane Craig again (which I highly recommend) in my car. I've always thought that a literal reading of the creation narrative in Genesis is quite indefensible apologetically and this book actually supports that with some top evangelical scholarship. Right up to the 19th century, the churches never considered a literal creation to be a test of orthodoxy and I think that Christians who are extremely dogmatic about this should really... chill out a bit! Some church fathers like Augustine, Origen and Justin Martyr never did agree with 6 days creationism anyway.
This doesn’t mean we agree with evolution or any scientific theory that seeks to explain away the mystery of life. Quite the contrary, the text in Genesis itself doesn't appeal to a 6 literal 24 hour day in creation. To quote William Lane Craig, "the Christian, unlike the atheist is free to follow the evidence wherever it leads while the atheist is committed to Darwinian theories of evolution however improbable they are." In fact, the highly improbable characteristic of evolution and the Big Bang actually lends support to the existence of God, so there...
To be like Jesus
To be like Jesus
All I ask - to be like Him
All through life's journey
From earth to glory
All I ask - to be like Him.
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totally didn't get that.. hahah ...
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