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Glorious and Depraved (18): Human Agency
Human beings have agency, that is, they are responsible for their decisions and actions, being determined by their reasoning and active power. They are and can be held accountable for their choices and
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (17): Inherited Sin (Part Two)
Inheriting Adam’s sin means inheriting his guilt, and it also means inheriting a fallen nature. Every child born into this world is… …born destitute of original righteousness, and the subjects of
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (16): Inherited Sin
Genesis 5 tells us, When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them adam when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (15): The Fall of Mankind (Part Five)
TheologyofWork.org is a robust source of Christian theology of work, including Bible Commentary, Key Topics, Devotionals, Small Group studies, Workers’ help, Help for Pastors, Resources for Scholars,
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (14): The Fall of Mankind (Part Four)
Childbirth has moved from a community, women-only in the home experience, to a hospital, doctors and nurses only medicated experience, to a hospital with dads invited experience, to a multi-option (hospital,
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (13): The Fall of Mankind (Part Three)
The consequences of the Fall are multiple and far reaching. 14 So Yahweh Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you more than all livestock and all wild animals! On
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (12): The Fall of Mankind (Part Two)
God does not come into the garden in human form until after Adam and Eve have finished succumbing to temptation and disobey. Allowing the tempter to tempt them to violate the only stated law of the garden
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (11): The Fall of Mankind (Part One)
The Fall is “a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.” Or, as it is more colorfully
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (10): Male and Female
Though it is common now to see men and women moving toward a more equitable range of characteristics, the differences between men and women have not and cannot be erased. We know that there are biological
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (9): The Origin of the Soul/Spirit
When a child is conceived and then born, where does that child’s immaterial soul/spirit come from? Has it always existed and is sent at conception or birth to this body, does God create it at conception
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (8): The Constituent Parts of Humans
I think that as Biblicists we must either see man as bi-partite or tri-partite, not a single part, where mind and body are simply aspects of the material me. There is conflicting evidence in Scripture
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (7): Humans as Workers/Creators
From a scientific standpoint, “work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement” and its International Systems Unit (SI unit) is the joule
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (6): The Creation/Cultural Mandate (Part Three)
Fill the earth and subdue it! (Genesis 1:28) The expand and control parts of the mandate from God go hand in hand. Expanding into new territories requires learning new ways to survive and thrive. Mankind
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (3½): Mankind Before the Fall (Part Three)
What does it mean for humans to be bodies with the breath of life breathed into them? Are we made of two constituents (body and soul) or just one? Wikipedia has helpfully summarized the two views as dualism
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (5): The Creation/Cultural Mandate (Part Two)
Be fruitful and multiply! (Genesis 1:28) Bearing children, reproducing, seems, in a way, something that happens without consciously obeying the command. Men and women are drawn together in love and to
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