{"id":330,"date":"2012-03-01T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/more.mbu.edu\/sunesis\/?p=330"},"modified":"2022-12-06T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:14:25","slug":"what-were-reading-coming-to-grips-with-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/what-were-reading-coming-to-grips-with-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading &#8211; Coming to Grips with Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Mortenson and Thane H. Ury, eds. <em>Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth<\/em>. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Although written from a creationist point of view, this work is not a book on science. It\u00a0 is a hermeneutics and theology\u00a0book, centered on understanding primarily the meaning of Genesis 1-11. The contention of the book is that if the first eleven chapters of the Bible are not taken literally or are viewed as a non-narrative genre, then the rest of the Bible cannot stand.<\/p>\n<p>The first three chapters look historically at the church&#8217;s understanding of creation, the fall, and Noah&#8217;s flood. Several following chapters are critiques of various evangelical approaches to Genesis 1-11 &#8212; the equating of natural theology with biblical theology, various interpretations of the &#8220;days&#8221; of\u00a0creation, the inclusion of &#8220;deep time&#8221; in Genesis 1, and the argument that massive\u00a0gaps\u00a0\u00a0in the genealogies of Gen 5 and 11 can extend\u00a0the creation of humanity back millions of years. This book does not take on non-theists or liberals as much as it does evangelicals with a non-literal view of all or part of Genesis 1-11.<\/p>\n<p>Two chapters focus on how Jesus and the New Testament writers viewed the earth&#8217;s age and the connection between the creation of the universe\u00a0and the creation of humanity. A helpful chapter inserts creationism into apologetic theodicies, demonstrating how ignoring creationism diminishes the theodic arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this book is easy to read, but filled with helpful material for the preacher, teacher, and scientist. I highly recommend anyone interested in biblical and theological reasons to accept creationism to read this. Buy\u00a0your copy from Amazon by clicking here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0890515484\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0890515484\">Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0890515484\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Oats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Mortenson and Thane H. Ury, eds. Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2010. Although written from a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727],"tags":[321,322],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sunesis","tag-book-review","tag-genesis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}