According to Bruce Waltke in his commentary on Proverbs, there are ten creation motifs. I thought I’d use a feature in the WordPress RefTagger plugin where the name of the book can be listed only at the beginning (as it is in the commentary) and it will still show all the rest of the verses in a popup window. If you’d like to see a longer passage you can click More at the bottom left of the box.
Proverbs 3:19-20; 8:22-31; 14:31; 16:11; 17:5; 20:12; 22:2; 29:13; 30:2-4
Jeff,
This is cool. I like the ref tagger, it makes it sooooo easy!
Prov. 8:22-23 seems like it could be a proof text for God’s eternal decrees. I’m thinking a lot about the mysteries of time/eternity lately, as this is a core issue in open theism and it seems to me that the time/eternity distinction could be at the heart of many paradoxes. Eternity incorporating more dimensions than time can possibly contain, etc.
Anyway, I’m glad you posted this. Such a bummer that Waltke has gone down the evolution path. Just this week I discovered Tim Keller has joined that club as well. It’s truly sad how deep the decay is setting in now. Will you and I be the only complementarian/creationist/inerrantist/Calvinists left when the world ends? Ha ha, just kidding. God is still saving sinners wherever His Gospel is preached! And many are still holding to the Word tenaciously. Let’s be Gospel sharers and Bible believers, no matter what the rest of the world does.
Blessings,
Derek
I almost didn’t buy this commentary by Waltke but decided the positives outweighed the negatives which might not even come up in the commentary. We’ll see.
Human logic seems to be winning. Stan will be there with us.
Someone wrote that their marriage is a partnership, being egalitarian. Hold on, so is my marriage. I tell you, if there were still Puritans, I think I would be one of them. And wives would love it if all husbands were Puritans, and not the stereotypical ones, from what I’ve read.
Anyway, I’m going to be really getting into Proverbs. There’s so much there, I’ll just scratch the surface. There is a lot about who God is and what He’s done, not just an owner’s manual for us. I’ll try to blog stuff but we’ll see how much time I want to spend blogging.
Jeff
Jeff,
You beat me to the punch. I was getting reading to throw my name in the hat!
tenacious, unyielding, gracious
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Stan stands
You are the two guys that back me up the most and I really appreciate it.
Nancy has come over here recently and has some fantastic comments. I wish she’d put some of that stuff on her blog.
Gary, although often different from me, has also been a great help.
And all the others.
Jeff