Search Results: gap creationism
“I’m Saved, but I Still Struggle. Why?”
Category: Q&A
Tags: Escaping the Matrix, The Mind, Transformation
Topics: Sin
…they are rooted in our physical neural-nets, our thoughts and emotions continue on in their autopilot fashion, however they’ve been programmed to run, for good or for ill. This is why we don’t automatically experience the truth of who we truly are in Christ. … The gap between our regenerate…
How To Talk about Theology
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Debate, Problem of Evil, Social Media, Theology
Topics: Theological Method
…Christians have interpreted “dogma,” this third circle usually comprises different ways of interpreting particular doctrines. Two examples of the innumerable beliefs that could be placed in the circle would be the “gap theory” that posits a long interval between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 as a way of reconciling this creation…
Pretty Little Vampires: Osheta Moore
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Osheta Moore, ReKnew Manifesto, Vampires
…you get your life? Do you get it in the veracity of your beliefs? What about being a “biblical woman”? The overall GAP cuteness of your kids? What about your body? Do you feel particularly powerful and capable when your scale registers that “perfect” number? Do you rely on your…
Q&A: Already-Not-Yet
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Kingdom Living, Quantum Physics
…the speed of light and exists for only a fraction of a second, it would take half a lifetime or more for that room to be filled with light. So too, from God’s perspective, the gap between what Christ accomplished when he died and rose again is almost non-existent, though…
In the Middle of Infinity
Category: General
…reference is the infinite above and infinite below, however, our problems become infinitely small. Of course, our own lives are experienced as infinitely small when situated in the middle of infinity. In the total scheme of things, the gap between the years of our life and the nanosecond existence of…
How can prayer change God’s mind?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Christian Life, God, Open Theism, Prayer, Theology
Topics: Apologetics, Open Theism
…Scripture, there are times God plans on going in one direction, but hopes that his people will intercede to change that direction. For example, he told Ezekiel he planned on bringing judgment on Israel but tried to find someone to “stand in the gap on behalf of the land so…
A Defense of Eller’s Thesis
Category: General
…solves the problem more simply, and possibly more effectively, than any other proposal we’ll consider. (Yet, as we’ll see in the next post, it also faces some formidable objections). The gap between the way God sometimes appears in the Old Testament and the way God appears in Jesus Christ is…