Posts Tagged ‘Genesis’
A Theology of Woman from Genesis 2-3: Design, Desire, and Deliverance
Whenever our family watches a movie, my husband or I often pause the movie to discuss ungodly behavior that is being normalized or at least unaddressed in the movie’s storyline. Just the other day, my husband paused a movie to explain that the way the mom and dad interacted with each other was not right—the…
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This blog series is adapted from Sunday School lessons I wrote several years ago for women and teen girls. The goal was to form a “theology of woman” by looking chronologically at all of the major portions of Scripture regarding women and womanhood. What does the Bible say are the roles, duties, challenges, and opportunities…
Read MoreTHE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 3 (Part 3)
John Mincy Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ This is Part 3 Part 1 deals with the literal interpretation of Genesis 3 based on data from the text itself and from cross references in the Old Testament. Part 2 deals with the literal interpretation of Genesis 3 in light of New Testament data. GENESIS 3…
Read MoreTHE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 3 (Part 2)
John Mincy Part 1 ♦ This is Part 2 ♦ Part 3 Part 1 deals with the literal interpretation of Genesis 3 based on data from the text itself and from cross references in the Old Testament. GENESIS 3 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT Conservative scholars consider the confirmation of the New Testament to be the…
Read MoreTHE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 3 (Part 1)
John Mincy This is Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 For centuries most of Christendom believed that a historical Adam and Eve sinned in a real garden by means of the deception of a real snake. According to a recent survey, however, almost three-fourths of the members of America’s protestant churches do not…
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