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Living With an Eternal Perspective
Sue Bohlin considers several ways to develop a way of seeing our earthly life as part of the much bigger picture that extends into eternity. What Does It Mean To Live With an Eternal Perspective? Years ago, after spending his whole life on the mission field, a career missionary made his final trip home on a passenger ship. One of […]
“What Color Were Adam and Eve?”
Hey Sue, what color were Adam and Eve? It’s so helpful to have a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology in the house! Here’s Ray’s answer: “We can’t know for sure, but here’s my educated guess: They contained all the different skin pigment genes that would end up being distributed to all the various peoples of the world. God would […]
Impose Values
Natasha Crain warns Christians in her new book, When Culture Hates You: Persevering for the Common Good as Christians in a Hostile Public Square. She begins by talking about the hostility Christians often face when they articulate a biblical perspective on cultural issues. We shouldn’t be surprised since Jesus warned us, “If the world hates you, know that it has […]
The Old Testament and Other Ancient Religious Literature
Do similarities in the Old Testament with other ancient Near Eastern literature prove that it is all the same kind of thing? Rick Wade shows why it’s not. The Challenge In the 1870s a scholar named George Smith revealed the discovery of both creation and flood stories in ancient Babylonian literature.{1} Bible scholars were soon claiming that the writer of […]
