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The doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible is highly complex with very many opposing views. My views are not based upon superstitions, hunches, or religious dogma; they are based upon the data with which I am familiar. Genesis 1-11 is written in a genre of prose literature that is radically...

I have never said, suggested, implied, insinuated, intimated, hinted or mentioned that I am a believer in the absurd notion that the earth is flat. Instead, I have quoted from Scripture where it very inaccurately describes the earth as being flat and covered with a solid dome that had real...

The final redactors of Genesis 1-11 did not know what actually exists. Moreover, all Jews at the time strenuously resisted Greek cosmology but believed in a cosmology that was commonly believed at the time by many non-Grecian peoples. Therefore, Genesis 1-11 needs to be understood from the...

A Baptist once wrote, “In order to be able to expound the Scriptures, and as an aid to your pulpit studies, you will need to be familiar with the commentators: a glorious army, let me tell you, whose acquaintance will be your delight and profit. Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think...

I quoted directly from the Scriptures and you blew them off just as do the Jehovah’s Witnesses when presented with the truth. And even worse than the Jehovah’s Witnesses, you accuse me of not believing the Bible, which I obvious do believe—even enough to actually study it in the languages in...

Of course, I deny it—and so did the Church as a whole deny it until 1961. Some ancient Jewish rabbis continued to believe into the 8th century A.D. that Genesis 1-11 was an accurate, literal account of actual historic events. Ancient Christian scholars, however, were writing at least as early...

Are you confusing the doctrine of the sovereignty of God with the doctrine of the absolute sovereignty of God like you are confusing the Tanakh with the Torah? The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible consisting of the Torah (the five books of Moses, the Nevi'im (the Books of the Prophets), and the...

It is painfully obvious that you have not read either commentary and that you are not at all familiar with Claus Westermann or Kenneth Mathews.

Should we believe what God has said, or what Ben is saying? They are vastly different, and since there is nothing more important to me than the truth, I believe what God has said.

Having a good understanding of Genesis is foundational to having a good understanding of the rest of the Bible. The first eleven chapters of Genesis are written in a genre of literature that is not found anywhere else in the Bible and hence it is studied today as a distinct body of biblical...

Theism belongs to religion; evolution belongs to science. Commingling them contaminates both of them—making the Bible appear to be a book of absurdities and science to be messing around with Tinker Toys.

If I were to learn that the vast majority of Christians understand a biblical text differently than I do, I would know that the likelihood of my being mistaken was very great. Therefore, I would ask myself, what am I missing that is so very clear to almost everyone else? 1 Timothy 6:15 which he...

The Absolute Sovereignty of God? Where did this doctrine come from? The answer is very well known to those Christians who are abreast of the history of Christian doctrine. The doctrine came into the church as part of the package of early reformed theology. Prior to the 16th century, we find no...