Creation Behold It Was Very Good

Author : Richard Schaefer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794708341

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Creation: "Behold, it was very good." by Richard Schaefer Pdf

Author Richard A. Schaefer is a lifelong communicator, fascinated by stories and, like any good journalist, digs for the facts and verifies sources, exploring nagging questions such as "Is creation or evolution more credible, based on science and expert opinions?" This book truly represents a personal passion of looking at all sides of the CREATION vs. EVOLUTION issue. He has called on many experts and theorists-including Charles Darwin himself. Surprisingly, Darwin was far more skeptical of his own theories than are many PhDs today, and admitted to significant holes in his logic. Read for yourself, as great thinkers explore the pros and cons of both theories and their variants.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601422910

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The Pleasures of God by John Piper Pdf

The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia

Author : Rod Dreher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780735213319

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The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo–Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House may have bought a brief reprieve from the state’s assault, but it will not stop the West’s slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actu­ally the way back—all the way to St. Benedict of Nur­sia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome’s fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new form of barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. The Benedict Option is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. It's for all mere Chris­tians—Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox—who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church, can sustain believers in the dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004494145

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Judaism's Story of Creation by Jacob Neusner Pdf

During the formative age of Judaism, the first seven centuries CE, the great rabbis thought deeply about beginnings in light of endings. They imposed upon their sequential reading of each passage the accumulated results of their reflection about all passages. Thus, they encompassed Scripture, so as to describe the world as God had intended it to be. This act of intellect resulted in two distinct, ahistorical media of thought and expression, the Halakhah, law, and Aggadah, lore. The author provides three systematic accounts of the Halakhic reading, and two Aggadic accounts. The Halakhic accounts cover [1] Work and Rest, [2] Ownership and Possession, Eden and the Land, and [3] Ownership and Possession in the Household. The Aggadic accounts pertain to [1] the Six Days of Creation, and [2] Adam and Eve.

Author : Bruce E. Voran
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781637100981

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Behold, It Was Very Good by Bruce E. Voran Pdf

Behold, It Was Very Good is a companion volume to Trembling Before God: Twelve Homilies Explore the Origin, Development, and Failure of Christianity Today. Both focus on the concept of choice. Choice is choosing between that perceived as either good or evil. Mankind has a strong absurd tendency to believe that God exists. Philosophers, theologians, scientists, and various other types of thinkers strain their imaginations seeking clarifications of God and all tend to find that there is a failure of reason. Faith is a confidence in something that cannot possibly be but is expected to be. Christian faith holds the substance of God is good. If God is the cause of all things, then God cannot escape being the source of all things, including both good and evil. Man lives in a state of an echo of good and evil contained within his separation from God. Humorists develop catchphrases to deflect the unendurable burden of evil: "The devil made me do it" and "What you see is what you get." Examined are the cultures and civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Austroasiatic, and Mesoamerican that have, for the most part, disappeared. Christianity and Judaism have passed through various struggles in order to survive. The Pew Forum 2009 and 2019 studies and a historical review dating from the time of the American colonies reveal a possible glimpse beginning with the Great Awakenings into the continued failure of contemporary Christian culture in America that finds religion irrelevant. The "welcoming doors" of many contemporary American churches tend to be "revolving doors." There is a rise of the megachurch phenomena and the decline of the mainline churches. God's declaration to Moses of "I Am" becomes lost over time in favor of institutional dogma, political power, and a preponderance of evil.

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 5963 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780310409038

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Amplified Bible by Zondervan, Pdf

When Your Knowledge of the Original Languages of the Bible Is Limited and You Don't Want to Lose Anything in the Translation If you want to get all the rich nuances and shades of meaning of the original Bible languages, the Amplified Bible is for you. No knowledge of Greek or Hebrew is required-just a desire to know all that God says in his Word. With its unique system of brackets, parentheses and italics, the Amplified Bible defines and expands key words and phrases right in the text. Verse by verse, the full meaning of Scripture unfolds as you read. And this Bible features other study aids as well to help you clearly understand God’s Word: - Footnotes-provide concise historical and archaeological information and devotional insights, plus hundreds of references to select sources and authors. - Book Introductions-tell you about the book’s author, background, purpose, and themes. - Concordance-helps you find the location of verses (25,000 entries). - Bibliography and Glossary-give you a handy list of the sources cited in the study notes and the most frequent amplifications in the text.

Author : Crossway Bibles
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 8513 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781433518874

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ESV Study Bible by Crossway Bibles Pdf

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way. Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, it is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published. The ESV Study Bible features more than 2,750 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources, including completely new notes, full-color maps, illustrations, charts, timelines, and articles created by an outstanding team of 93 evangelical Christian scholars and teachers. In addition to the 757,000 words of the ESV Bible itself, the notes and resources of the ESV Study Bible comprise an additional 1.1 million words of insightful explanation and teaching-equivalent to a 20-volume Bible resource library all contained in one volume. (Please note this edition does not come with free access to the Online ESV Study Bible resources.) 9-point Lexicon type (single-column Bible text); 7-point Frutiger type (double-column study notes) Black letter text Concordance Extensive articles 240 full-color maps and illustrations

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0802136109

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The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis by Anonim Pdf

Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.

Author : Charles Fillmore
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780486316093

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Metaphysical Bible Dictionary by Charles Fillmore Pdf

A key to Charles Fillmore's original form of religious expression, this volume is a core text of the Unity movement and interprets the hidden meanings of the Bible's names, places, and events.

Author : Jon Garvey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532652004

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God's Good Earth by Jon Garvey Pdf

God’s world was created “very good,” Genesis chapter 1 tells us, and in this book Jon Garvey rediscovers the truth, known to the Church for its first 1,500 years but largely forgotten now, that the fall of mankind did not lessen that goodness. The natural creation does not require any apologies or excuses, but rather celebration and praise. The author’s re-examination of the scriptural evidence, the writings of two millennia of Christian theologians, and the physical evidence of the world itself lead to the conclusion that we, both as Christians and as modern Westerners, have badly misunderstood our world. Restoring a truer vision of the goodness of the present creation can transform our own lives, sharpen the ministry of the church to the world of both people and nature, and give us a better understanding of what God always intended to bring about through Christ in the age to come.

Author : Gordon J. Wenham
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830870080

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Exploring the Old Testament by Gordon J. Wenham Pdf

Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed. This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to the basic features of the Pentateuch the social world of the Bible the latest scholarship on the composition of the Pentateuch literary techniques and forms theme, composition and rhetorical function of the Pentateuch In this textbook you will find double-column formatting for ease of use, annotated bibliographies for further reading, sidebar explorations of select historical and textual topics in greater detail, a glossary of terms, and relevant charts and maps.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Patriarchs (Bible)
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1XWW

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The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White Pdf

Author : Michael L. A. David
Publisher : Author House
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 9781491897638

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Behold, I Show You a Mystery! by Michael L. A. David Pdf

SOME FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS AGO SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAPPENED, EXACTLY WHERE WHO KNOWS?, SOME SAY THAT IT WAS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, BUT NEVERTHELESS A MIRACULOUS EVENT WAS TAKING PLACE. IT WAS MINUTE IN SIZE, BUT IMMENSE IN ENERGY! IT WAS THE 'BIG BANG', OR 'AND GOD SAID', ..."LET THERE BE"...AND THE UNIVERSE WAS BORN, AND IT CONTINUED TO GROW, AND IT HAS GROWN EXPIDENTIALLY EVER SINCE, AND NOW IT HAS BECOME A HOME FOR US, AND THE MIRIAD OF STARS, AND GALAXIES ARE BEING PREPARED EVEN AS I AM WRITING THIS, ...FOR MANKIND ! AND IT CONTINUES TO GROW, BUT SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, BUT I SAY THAT IT WAS BY DESIGN, AND THAT DESIGN WAS FOR OUR BENEFIT. AND THAT THERE IS A SUPREME BEING, 'A CREATOR', WHO IS FAR ABOVE AND BEYOND OUR CONCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME, AND THAT HE CARES ABOUT US WITHOUT LIMIT, SO MUCH SO THAT HE BUILT AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE TO ACCOMODATE MANKIND. AND THAT HE HAS A 'PLAN' FOR US THAT WILL BE SO SPECTACULAR THAT WE COULD'NT POSSIBLY IMAGINE OF IT EVEN IN OUR WILDEST DREAMS. AND EVEN THOUGH WE 'FELL' HE NEVER GAVE UP ON US, AND THAT HE CAME DOWN TO THE EARTH TO REDEEM US FROM SIN AND DEATH IN ORDER THAT WE WOULD ONCE AGAIN BE AT THE CENTRE OF THAT 'PLAN', THE WHICH IS ON GOING BUT NOT UNTIL THE EARTH HAS BEEN CLEANSED WILL IT BE INITIATED AND CONTINUED IN EARNEST. AND THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THOSE 'PLANS' . BUT THE CUNNING AND CRAFTY NATURE OF 'LUCIFER', AND OF THE 'FALLEN ANGELS' TRIES TO THWART THOSE PLANS.

Author : Jürgen Moltmann,Margaret Kohl
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411901

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The Coming of God by Jürgen Moltmann,Margaret Kohl Pdf

Winner of Grawemeyer Award In this remarkable and timely work - in many ways the culmination of his systematic theology - world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann stands Christian eschatology on its head. Moltmann rejects the traditional approach, which focuses on the End, an apocalyptic finale, as a kind of Christian search for the "final solution." He centers instead on hope and God's promise of new creation for all things. "Christian eschatology," he says, "is the remembered hope of the raising of the crucified Christ, so it talks about beginning afresh in the deadly end." Yet Moltmann's novel framework, deeply informed by Jewish and messianic thought, also fosters rich and creative insights into the perennially nettling questions of eschatology: Are there eternal life and personal identity after death? How is one to think of heaven, hell, and purgatory? What are the historical and cosmological dimensions of Christian hope? What are its social and political implications. In a heartbreakingly fragile and fragment world, Moltmann's comprehensive eschatology surveys the Christian vista, bravely envisioning our "horizons of expectation" for personal, social, even cosmic transformation in God.

Author : Douglas J. Moo,Jonathan A. Moo
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310416555

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Creation Care by Douglas J. Moo,Jonathan A. Moo Pdf

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a God whose creative power and loving care embrace all that exists, from earth and sky and sea to every creeping, crawling, swimming, and flying creature. Yet the significance of the Bible’s extensive teaching about the natural world is easily overlooked by Christians accustomed to focusing only on what the Bible says about God’s interaction with human beings. In Creation Care, part of the Biblical Theology for Life series, father and son team Douglas and Jonathan Moo invite readers to open their Bibles afresh to explore the place of the natural world within God’s purposes and to celebrate God’s love as displayed in creation and new creation. Following the contours of the biblical storyline, they uncover answers to questions such as: What is the purpose of the non-human creation? Can a world with things like predators, parasites, and natural disasters still be the ‘good’ world described in Genesis 1? What difference does the narrative of the ‘Fall’ make for humankind’s responsibility to rule over other creatures? Does Israel’s experience on the land have anything to teach Christians about their relationship with the earth? What difference does Jesus make for our understanding of the natural world? How does our call to care for creation fit within the hope for a new heaven and a new earth? What is unique about Christian creation care compared with other approaches to ‘environmental’ issues? How does creation care fit within the charge to proclaim the gospel and care for the poor? In addition to providing a comprehensive biblical theology of creation care, they probe behind the headlines and politicized rhetoric about an ‘environmental crisis’ and climate change to provide a careful and judicious analysis of the most up-to-date scientific data about the state of our world. They conclude by setting forth a bold framework and practical suggestions for an effective and faithful Christian response to the scriptural teaching about the created world. But rather than merely offering a response to environmental concerns, Creation Care invites readers into a joyful vision of the world as God’s creation in which they can rediscover who they truly are as creatures called to love and serve the Creator and to delight in all he has made.