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In the beginning…

Of the semester things are always a bit frantic. This semester I am teaching a mere 1 credit course, “Genesis 1-3.” The reason for the topic is because it usually takes me a month to get out of chapter 3 even when I am teaching Intro to Hebrew Bible. The reason for 1 credit is [...]

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Genesis 2 – What did God know and when did he know it?

Or why didn’t God realize that the sheep weren’t going to do it for the Man? Gen. 2.18   Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of [...]

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Genesis 2 – The Nature of Man

Gen. 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out [...]

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Ambition – In the image of God?

Tonight I was at a campus function where the guest speaker, seeking to motivate the students, said a remarkable thing. We are the only creatures that God created who are restless, we are the only creatures who have ambition. …It is part of our having been made in the image of God that we have [...]

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Too much good stuff

You know there are times when I get really frustrated and a wee bit depressed because there is just not enough time. I love my job as an administrator and the work that I do but it means I have very little time for reading blogs and even less for writing posts. (See the halting [...]

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