God created humans naked In a recent post we discussed the wonder of the first woman, Eve, mother of all the living. We saw the profound truth of female as a mother, the “life giver.” The man gives the sperm, but it is in the astonishing womb of a woman
God invented capital Mark 12:1-12 is a parable about accountability, theft and judgment. It also reveals something about resources. And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower,
Last September we published David Evans’s article, Ten Biblical Principles for Agriculture. This post has generated lots of views, so we want to harness that interest by offering an animated version here. Click the image below (or go here if the image does not appear). David’s full paper is available
Woman, the life giver How many times can you read a passage of Scripture and see what you have never seen before? This has been a pattern throughout my life, going deeper into a familiar passage of Scripture and finding new truths. A simple truth on the surface of a
The Puritans, like the Bereans before them, regarded the scriptures as the ultimate trump card in the trilogy of God’s revelation Truth is both revealed, and hidden. It is revealed through the word of God. As Jesus prays, in John 17:17, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
Human imagination is clearly implied in God’s mandate to Adam and Eve to develop the creation out of the raw materials He provided. And human imagination has been at work ever since. Note the quotation about a bar of iron. The value of an item is not necessarily found in
At its heart, the pursuit of happiness is moral, not hedonistic. The pursuit of happiness is fulfilled in freedom – the opportunity to do good, not in license – the right to do wrong. The pursuit of happiness is found by living within the moral universe, not in seeking to
Seeing that God owns the patent for agriculture, humans do well to heed His directions for farming! According to God’s mandate in Deuteronomy 8:3, people shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God. Thus, we are to live by bread, but we are also
Humans were created imago Dei We live at a time of increased identity crisis and confusion. The worldview called Modernism or Naturalism views us as merely animals, descendants of apes. Postmodernism sees our biology, the physical platform, as meaningless, merely a social construct, a product of our imagination. We see
The folks at the Bible Project recently developed a terrific video on heaven and earth (see below). We at the DNA find that there is still a great deal of confusion on this topic among Christians. Many (perhaps most) evangelical Christians hold to the idea that heaven and earth are
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