I believe that God, in His great wisdom, has a marvelous plan for His creation (Rom. 8:18-30; 11:33-36; Eph. 1:9-11). By creating man in His own image, God has made man morally responsible (Gen. 1:27; 5:1; 9:6). Just as God has freedom, He has endowed man with freedom in order that man might freely choose [...]
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God’s Plan for His Creation
November 5, 2007Man, Part One
November 1, 2007I believe that man is a special creation of God. Human life did not evolve from lower life forms (Gen. 2:7, 21-23). Since humanity is made in the image of God, man and woman are the pinnacle of God’s creation (Gen. 1:27). In the ancient world, pagan worshipers would make graven images of their false [...]
Creation
October 30, 2007Here’s the section in my doctrinal statement on creation.
I believe that God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing for His own good pleasure (John 1:3; Heb. 11:3: Col. 1:16; Rev. 4:11). Each member of the Trinity participated in the creating work (Gen. 1-2; John 1:1-4). According to Genesis, God said that His [...]
“This Is My Father’s World”
October 11, 2007BTW, here’s a link to the old NY Times article reporting Babcock’s death.
“This Is My Father’s World”
October 11, 2007For my Christian Theology class, we have to make a presentation on the theology of one of our favorite hymns. I chose “This Is My Father’s World.”
Author
Maltie D. Babcock (1858-1901) was a Presbyterian minister. He pastored two different churches in his lifetime: the First Presbyterian Church of Lockport, New York, and Brick Presbyterian Church in New [...]
Alvin Plantinga on naturalism
August 7, 2007Awhile back I posted some stuff on Notre Dame prof Alvin Plantinga’s argument against naturalism. Here’s a link to some audio by Plantinga on the subject.
Alvin Plantinga on naturalism
May 24, 2007Alvin Plantinga is a Christian philosopher at the university of Notre Dame. He’s best known for his Reformed Epistemology and his explanation of the problem of evil. Here’s a lecture by him.
In his book Warrented Christian Belief, Plantinga argues that if naturalism and evolution are true, then there is no reason to be sure that our [...]
Carefully Designed by Evolution?
May 22, 2007My wife Shelley heard this story on NPR about fertility drugs and multiple births. I find it pretty ironic when you heard Liza Mundy, the author of Everything Conceivable, say, “Our bodies have been very carefully designed by evolution to ensure that generally we are only going to ovuate one egg per month.”
Carefully designed by a random thoughtless [...]
