The story of the fall in Genesis 3 has been trivialized to be a fairy tale about a naked couple talking to a snake and eating an apple. Trivial fairy tale? Hardly! It is the story of the human rebellion against the Creator, which led to the cataclysm that gave us the unfair world in which we live. The rest of the Bible’s story flows from this dreadful event…
Boomer Reflections on Ecclesiastes
These words from Ecclesiastes 12, make clear that the young are one of the author’s target audiences: “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.” Beyond this passage and a few others (thanks to “The Birds” and youth rallies), I heard very little in this book. As a young student of Scripture, taking in the entirety of this book was a shock. I asked, “What is this cynical, near nihilistic book, doing in the Bible? Everything meaningless? This will lead to an unhappy and bitter life!”
God in the Storm
Statement of Problem
Hurricane Ian, once again, raises the most difficult question that people of faith in the God of the Bible face. Given that nothing produces nothing, defending the idea of a Personal, Infinite, Creator is fairly straightforward. The most difficult question we face does not involve God and science, but God and suffering.