Doctrinal Matters

courtesy of www.freeimages.com Peter Enns is an author and seminary professor.  He believes in theistic evolution, i.e. that God used the process of evolution to "create" life on Earth.  Because he believes in human evolution, he is sure that the Apostle Paul got it wrong about Adam being the first human.  I have provided the transcript of the video below along with my comments. Video Transcription Dr. Enns' words are in red and my comments are in black . One approach that is helpful to me is that I think Paul certainly assumed that Adam was a person and the progenitor of the human race. I would expect nothing less from Paul, being a first century man. And again, God speaks in ways and uses categories that are available to human beings at that time.   I  don't expect Paul to have had a conversation with Francis Collins about the Genome Project and how common descent is essentially assured scientifically. I don't expect him to under...

photo courtesy of freeimages.com In this post, I respond to a video produced by BioLogos, a group that promotes theistic evolution (the idea that God used evolution to create.  You can watch the video below.  In this video, Pastor Daniel Harrell presents a compromise theory about the historical accuracy of Adam and Eve.  I have provided the transcript along with my comments.  Pastor Harrell's words are in red and my comments in black. I guess I appreciate how, for many conservative Christians, a historical Adam and Eve is very, very important. I think one of the things that have been discussed here is how, in Corinthians and Romans, Paul's referent back to Adam and Eve is almost necessary as a historical figure given the way that he is describing them. Pastor Harrell refers to Romans 5, a passage in which Paul tells us that sin and death entered the world through Adam.  Paul goes on to explain that Adam was a prototype of Jesus, i.e. they w...

In this post I critique a video interview done by Biologos (a theistic evolution group) entitled  The Danger of Preaching on Genesis.   You can watch the video below or it can be accessed  here .  I hesitate to drive any traffic to Biologos because it is a dangerous group that compromises God's word.  Please visit their website with caution. This is their interview with Dr. Joel Hunter, pastor of a very large church in Orlando, Florida.  I have provided the transcript to the video interview with Pastor Hunter's words in red and my commentary in black. Video Transcription It is a very big risk for pastors in conservative Evangelical churches to venture forth and say, "Look, let's be humble about this." But the other side of this is, we have probably, I would say, the vast majority of our people sitting in those pews who are very uncomfortable with, "Look, it was six 24-hour days, and if you think anything else, then you don't believe in scrip...