Search Results: noah
Things I liked and things that bugged me about “Noah”
Category: General
Tags: Flood, Movie Review, Nephilim, Noah, Violence
image via http://www.noahmovie.com/gallery I finally had a chance to go see Noah the other night and thought some might find a review helpful. Since this is a review of a movie and not a commentary on the biblical text, I’m setting aside all theological issues that surround this narrative, such…
Was Noah’s flood global or local?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Old Testament, Q&A
Topics: Biblical Reliability
Though many regard the biblical story of a great flood in the days of Noah to be an ancient legend, evangelical Christians affirm it as historical fact because Scripture presents it as such. However, a debate has arisen during the last two hundred years as to whether the flood was…
The First Fruit of the Coming Non-Violent Creation
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…other creatures to eat was vegetation. The fact that humans now eat animals and many animals eat each other was not part of God’s original plan for creation. It’s rather the result of the fall. This is confirmed when we compare God’s post-flood covenant with Noah with the Genesis 1…
Compassionate Dominion and Factory Farms
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…heart toward animals. One of the clearest signs of the dignity and value God ascribes to animals is that he sometimes makes covenants with them. When God forged a new covenant with Noah after the flood, for example, he included animals. The Lord said the rainbow was “the sign of…
Yahweh’s War Against the Nephilim
Category: General
…in Genesis 5:18. This means this rebellious angelic activity had been going on for centuries before God decided it was time to judge humanity, the fallen angels and their hybrid children in Noah’s day. Moreover, Heiser argues that by telling us that only Noah and his immediate family were unsullied…
I Bible Interpretation
…of Biblical Authority VI Apologetics: The Reliability of the New Testament VI Apologetics: The Case for Christ B. T. Arnold, R. S. Hess, eds., Ancient Israel’s History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources, (Baker Academic, 2014) 2 L. R. Bailey, Noah, the Person and the Story in History and…
Why Are We So Mired in Violence?
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Flood, Love, Relationships, Trinity, Violence
Topics: The Problem of Evil
…find Lamech, a descendent of Cain, boasting that his thirst for vengeance is ten times greater than Cain’s. Within a few millennia (so far as we can guess) the world became so “full of violence” the Lord had to destroy humankind and start over with Noah’s family (Gen. 6:11). Yet,…
When God Regrets
Category: General
Tags: Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, Future
Topics: Open Theism
The openness of the future is illustrated in the Bible’s depictions of God as grieving the outcome of decisions he himself has made. Regarding the incredible wickedness of humanity before Noah, for example, we read, “The Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved…
What is the significance of Genesis 6:5–6?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Genesis 6
…and God’s regret was real (the fact that he destroyed the human race and started over with Noah suggests this, does it not?) then it seems more reasonable to believe that until that point in time, God didn’t know with certainty that humanity would grieve him the way it did….
The Argument from God’s Non-Violent Creational Ideal
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…part of God’s original design for creation is reiterated when God makes a new covenant with humanity after the flood. The covenant of Gen. 9:1-4 parallels the covenant of Genesis 1 very closely, except that God now concedes the reality of fear, dread and violence in creation. To Noah and…
What’s your view of the tribulation period and the rapture?
Category: Q&A
Tags: End Times, Q&A
Topics: End Times
…behind (e.g., Matt. 24:40) do not refer to a secret rapture. If read in context, post-tribulationists argue, the one taken is likened to those who were judged in Noah’s flood, not to one who is rescued from judgment (Matt. 24:38–39). Jesus is speaking about how suddenly people will disappear under…
Shedding Light On “The Dark Side of God”
Category: General
…Bible speaks this way about judgment a lot. For example, regarding the Romans Paul says, “God gave them over to shameful lusts” and “God withdrew his protection and gave them over to a depraved mind” (Rom. 1:26, 28, emphasis added). As in the days of Noah, God brought an end…
What about the thief on the cross?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Afterlife, Heaven and Hell, Q&A
Topics: Death and Salvation, End Times
…alive in the Spirit. In that state he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. This passage seems to teach that when Jesus died, he descended into…
What’s Up With The Nephilim?
Category: General
…story of the flood. He’s demonstrating how hopelessly screwed up the human race was getting to justify God sending a flood and starting over with Noah’s family. As an interestingly aside, many ancient cultures have stories of semi-divine warriors who fought in the past (e.g. the Titans). Many people argue…
Why We Can’t Know Why
Category: General
Tags: Chaos Theory, Complexity, Open Theism, Problem of Evil
…why our first and foremost job description involves very little knowing but a great deal of loving. Our limited domain of responsibility is primarily to love God and others as we are filled with God’s love. —Adapted from Is God to Blame? pages 96-104. Photo credit: Noah Silliman via Unsplash…
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
…except now God concedes the reality of fear, dread and violence in creation. To Noah and his sons the Lord says: “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth and all the birds…