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Is the Flood Account a Beautiful Story about Rainbows?
Of all the violent texts in the Old Testament, the portrayal of the flood in Genesis 6–8 may be the most difficult text to understand. As I was struggling with the way the flood is presented in...
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The Flood of Genesis 6-8 in Context
In the flood of Genesis 6-8, did God really send water to kill every living thing on earth? We have been considering the issue of the violence of the flood for several posts now, and will continue to...
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The Waters of the Flood and ANE Cosmology
In seeking to understand what is going on in the account of the flood and why the waters that came upon the earth, we must understand the Ancient Near East cosmology. That is, what they thought about...
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How Genesis 8:21 Reveals God’s Purpose in the Flood
The flood narrative in Genesis 6-8 is difficult to understand in light of the self-sacrificing nature of God revealed in Jesus Christ on the cross. How can the God who drowns everybody on earth because...
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God Takes Responsibility for the Flood
When bad things happen in this world, God often takes the responsibility for them because He is the one who created a universe where such evil things are possible. When God created the world, He did...
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Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21 do not teach Total Depravity
Yesterday we briefly looked at the Calvinistic understanding of Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21, and how they use these verses to defend the doctrine of Total Depravity. In this post I want to look at how...
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Does Jesus Drown Babies?
Remember Andrea Yates? She is the mother who, in 2001, drowned her five children in a bathtub. She said that the devil had influenced her children, and so they needed to die. A few years later, another...
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