Search Results: gap creationism
Back to the Drawing Board on the “Gap Theory”
Category: General
…1. (My version of the “gap theory” posits a gap between verses 1 and 2 and says nature became corrupted by demonic powers and the world and the powers were judged during this interval). Among other arguments, I have contended that there are more than a dozen references to creation…
Ralph Winter’s Modified “Gap Theory”
Category: General
…continue to hold to the gap theory on an exegetical basis, which I’ve always thought was very strong. Yet, by localizing the “gap” it completely avoids the geological and paleontological problems that accompany the standard gap theory. Not only that, but while I’m sure the interpretation of Genesis 1 as…
Satan and the Corruption of Nature: Seven Arguments
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Creation Care, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
…one may plausible postulate a “gap” between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis chapter 1. (Hence this view is sometimes referred to as the “gap” theory). In this view the world became corrupted by demonic forces for millions of years and then was judged, reducing it to a state of…
God’s Heart to Prevent Judgment
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Judgment, Prayer
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Verse: Ezekiel 21, Ezekiel 22
…what God does and even to thwart his plans. As it concerns the Babylonian siege to which this passage refers, Ezekiel depicts the Lord unsuccessfully trying to prevent this judgment. At one point, we find Yahweh telling Ezekiel that he searched for someone to “stand before me in the gap…
Objections to Petitionary Prayer 3
Category: General
…“looked for someone… to stand in the gap” to avert this disaster, but he found no one. Now, if it was from all eternity a foregone (fated/ predestined) conclusion that no one would be found to “stand in the gap,” one has to wonder how God could with any degree…
Angels and Spirits in a Secular World
Category: General
Tags: Angels, Demons, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…the argument runs as follows: Throughout all of nature we observe a continuum of life forms leading up to humans. There seem to be no major gaps in the gradation of levels of power, intelligence and personality between us and the lowest form of inorganic life. Now if this much…
The Argument from God’s Creational Battles
Category: General
…is known as “the gap theory,” since it posits a gap between these two verses). As an exegetical argument I think this works great. But, as I admitted in a blog several weeks, this view runs into difficulties on the scientific end of things. The way one ends up reconciling…
The Argument from a Cursed Nature
Category: General
…we reconcile the Bible with the geological and paleontological evidence of a violent pre-humanoid world? As I noted in a previous blog, I used to account for this with a version of the gap theory (see my God at War and Satan and the Problem of Evil). I still think…
Evolution As Cosmic Warfare
Category: General
…felt I had to modify my “gap” interpretation of Genesis 1 because it conflicted with the geological evidence. At the same time, I began to consider an alternative reading of Genesis 1 that I’d recently come across, proposed by Ralph Winter (I posted on this topic 7/30/07). Well, I’m becoming…
A FREE Resource on Spiritual Formation
Category: General
Tags: Spiritual Formation, Woodland Hills Church
Topics: Following Jesus
…we have to admit that, while we believe these truths, we often don’t experience them as real in our lives. Most of us don’t regularly experience God’s limitless and unconditional love. And most of us don’t regularly experience this limitless and unconditional love for all others. There is a gap…
Does Prayer Really Make a Difference?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Kingdom Living, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer, Open Theism
…Lord says, I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume…
Don’t Weep For the Demise of American Christianity
Category: General
…in a “Christian” direction by acquiring political power to enforce our (self-proclaimed) superior views on selected topics (especially abortion, gay marriage, creationism in schools and stem cell research) on the broader culture. It has not gone well, to say the least. After 40 years of intense political involvement, Evangelicals have…
Evolution as Believers-A Clarification
Category: General
Tags: Evolution, Science
…my brief post, you force readers to guess at your meaning, and this leads to unnecessary confusion and misunderstandings. So, here’s my clarification. When I expressed my various concerns about the rejection of “evolution” as a pastor, citizen, apologist and theologian, I was merely referring to young earth creationism, such…
A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Book Reviews, Greg Boyd, Historical Criticism, Inerrancy, Inspiration, Reviews
…Creationism, and thus a dogmatic stance against science. And while Rob Bell is my friend and I endorsed his book as well worth reading, I have absolutely no idea why this author would claim I am a universalist who “cannot even consign the devil to hell.” The “heresy” I would…
Is Greg Too Progressive for Today’s Evangelicalism?
Category: General
Tags: Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Orthodoxy, Progressive Christianity, Roger Olson, Thomas Oord
…on with a temporary contract while he makes his transition away from the University.) Oord has been open about his rejection of young earth creationism and acceptance of evolution and is also an open theist. Although the University claimed that the termination was driven by financial concerns, there are a…
Dear Greg: How Do I Interact with My Science-Obsessed Daughter? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg disintegrates young-earth creationism and Christianity in order to integrate Christianity and science. Episode 656 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0656.mp3…
Part 5 (of 15): The Delicate Dance
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
…fine when your spouse angers you, for example – you will find yourself heading down a path in which “reality itself” will become “unsustainably disorganized and chaotic.” And he continues: If the gap between pretense and reality goes unmentioned, it will widen, you will fall into it, and the consequences…
Getting Free From the Sin of Sodom: Living With Outrageous Generosity
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Kingdom Living, Wealth and Responsibility
Topics: Following Jesus
…in numerous studies. Research has consistently shown that, generally speaking, the more people have, the less percentage of their income they tend to give away. This is even reflected on a national level in the case of America. In 2000, the gap between the wealth of the average Americans and…
Is America Uniquely Favored by God?
Category: General
Tags: America, Greed, Poverty
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…In 2000, the gap between the wealth of the average Americans and that of the poorest 25% of people on the planet was four times greater than what it had been in 1960. During this same period of time, the percentage of our country’s Gross National Product (GNP) that went…
Doing the Kingdom, Not Voting It In
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Love, Myth of a Christian Nation, Unsurpassable Worth
…safe houses for battered women? What if our concern was to bridge the ungodly racial gap in our country by developing friendships and collaborating in endeavors with people whose ethnicity is different than our own? What if instead of trying to defend our religious rights, Christians concerned themselves with siding…