The Narrow Path Ministries

You seem "panicked" that if the earth is billions vs 15,000 years old it necessarily lends support to macro-evolution. Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe this universe is very ancient (although I won't be terribly upset if I learn I am wrong someday) but I certainly don't believe in...

Steve 7150 wrote: On the 4th day, my take is that the greater light from the sun was seen and the leeser light from the moon was seen as well as the light from the stars. So if the sun and moon were not created on day 4 (and instead much earlier according to day/age and big bang interpretation), wh...

I cannot accept theistic evolution, materialistic evolution, or any other variant of evolution, no matter how sincere its adherents may be for one very simple reason: it relies upon death as a necessary part of God's plan to move from single-celled organism to complex proliferation of species and ev...

I simply cannot reconcile even a non-literal reading of the Genesis account of creation with evolutionary and big bang theories. First, if one assumes the "days" of Genesis chapter 1 are actually epochs, one has to ask what "morning" and "evening" symbolize. One then must ask why the God of creation...

Hi Glow, I have not read the book, but I have read the Wikipedia article on Dr. Alexander and his views are quite clear: creationism and intelligent design are woefully misguided, are not science, and evolution and the Bible can quite peacefully coexist. It is not necessary to even bring science int...

Homer, I have enjoyed reading your many posts - particularly this one: am not a Jonathan Edwards "hell-fire" fan, and am not sure there is enough data to determine whether conditional imortality or a more traditional view is correct. As I have said before, the universalist position is one of the poo...

I've been absent for a couple of weeks and am just now catching up. Steve7150 said: If Christ never used hyperbole are you prepared to cut off your hand or gauge your eye out if they cause you to sin? I think he often used hyperbole as his audience was familiar with this literary technique. Regardin...

BTW the story of the Rich man is not necessarily about hell, it could be about the jewish nation rejecting Christ and looking to Father Abraham for help. I will grant that the above is a possible explanation, but it seems extremely implausible for several reasons: 1. Christ's parables or metaphors ...

As much as I would like to believe that God's punishment is always restorative without any punitive element, I have a difficult time reconciling such a view with passages such as Luke 16:19-31 regarding the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man. I realize that this passage is the subject of considerable...

Anochria wrote: Well, we know for sure that some of the biblical geneologies have omissions, so there is clearly biblical precendent for selective geneologies. Please elaborate. Where are there "selective geneologies" and in what context are they used? See also my remarks in the immediately precedi...