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By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:53:17 +0000

tom that would be quite a study. I’ve done some amateur NT exegesis and I’m surprised by what I learn from some of the steps that Gordon Fee has you go through. I haven’t done anything real deep in the OT other than some stuff on Psalm 19.

Have a nice rest of the weekend if this is in time.
Jeff

By: Mitchell Powell

Mitchell Powell — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:08:27 +0000

Jeff–I’ve got the post here: http://fontwords.com/?p=796. The basic summary is that I’ve been unable to find logical consistency in any system that spiritualizes Genesis, the beginning of Jesus’ genealogy, while viewing the end bits as historical truth.

By: tomgdrums

tomgdrums — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:34:54 +0000

I am almost done with a two month study of Genesis 2:25-3:24. And it has been unbelievably eye opening and humbling and so much more. I am also coming to some conclusions (as much as I can really conclude anything) about Bible study. One of the things I have noticed is that on every paragraph and verse I can not skip a step of study, because I never know which step God is going to use to open something to me. Sometimes it is a different translation, other times it is from consulting the concordance. Other times it might be from using a cross-reference and others it might be from a word definition or a study note!

Have a great weekend!

By: Mitchell Powell

Mitchell Powell — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:23:21 +0000

Some of us are quieter and some of us are noisier. I’m a preacher’s kid. As a middle and high schooler, I was dropped into a school full of highly liberal kids who loved to talk politics and religion, and who also came to the discussion with the assumption that anything even vaguely conservative was nothing but a scheme concocted during an evil child-sacrificing ceremony presided over by Republicans, Businessmen, Soldiers, and Fundamentalists. So I learned to talk about issues, and it’s stuck with me. But the quiet folks are also servants of God, and often braver than us noisier ones. I look forward to your post.

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:53:58 +0000

I think I’ll post. It’s just things I noticed and appreciated while reading. I’d be interested in your post. You’re braver than me but then I’m not an apologist in that way at all.
Jeff

By: Mitchell Powell

Mitchell Powell — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:42:51 +0000

Although I wouldn’t dream of telling you what you should or should not write on your blog, I would definitely be glad to see you posting on Genesis. One of the things people can’t swallow right now is the idea that people can think Genesis tells history in more or less exact can think this without being exceedingly ignorant bigots. And so if you do do a post on Genesis, it’ll be one step closer to bringing things to where actually conversation can happen without mudslinging.

I may write up a post myself on Genesis 1, trying to lay out while I think Genesis 1 is literally true in a reasonable way.

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:03:34 +0000

Mitchell, yes! I also view it as history literal and that’s very unpopular now. You get labeled as a fundamentalist or lacking in knowledge. But I may do it and just post my thoughts on what I read without posting any opinions if that’s possible. I loved it except for the bad parts. God’s sovereignty shone through like never before for me.
Jeff

By: Mitchell Powell

Mitchell Powell — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:03:38 +0000

It’s a pity about Genesis. Although I come at it from what’s commonly called a “literalistic” perspective, it’s an incredible book even viewed from the angles of metaphor or simile or epic. And the underlying theological truths of creation, the fall, redemption, human conflict, etc. are portrayed in insightful and beautiful form, regardless of one’s view as to its historicity. Pity we’re all at each other’s throats about it.