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SPECIAL: Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account

An episode of the Does the Bible say THAT?!? podcast, hosted by David Lester, titled "SPECIAL: Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account" was published on July 3, 2024 and runs 42 minutes.

July 3, 2024 ·42m · Does the Bible say THAT?!?

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Host Dave Lester spoke at "The Word and the World: Science and the Christian Life" conference in Kitsap County on Saturday, June 8th, 2024. He did a breakout session talking about "Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account" and also discussed the interpretative lenses we have been handed from a cultural war brewing before we were born. Visit "The Word and the World" Conference web page: https://www.ckpc.org/media/series/pnqdry6/the-word-and-the-world-conference Listen to Ezra Klein interview Marilynn Robinson (author of "Reading Genesis") right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marilynne-robinson-on-biblical-beauty-human-evil-and/id1548604447?i=1000648054080 Sources used for this episode: *The NIV Application Commentary: Genesis by Dr. John Walton *Word Biblical Commentary: Genesis 1-15 by Gordon J. Wenham *The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, Victor H Matthews & Mark W. Chavalas *Commentary on the Torah by Richard Elliott Friedman *The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17 by Victor P. Hamilton *Reading Genesis by Marilynn Robinson *Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation edited by J. Daryl Charles Opening Music: Struttin With Some Barbeque by Louis Armstrong

Episode Description

Host Dave Lester spoke at "The Word and the World: Science and the Christian Life" conference in Kitsap County on Saturday, June 8th, 2024. He did a breakout session talking about "Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account" and also discussed the interpretative lenses we have been handed from a cultural war brewing before we were born.


Visit "The Word and the World" Conference web page: https://www.ckpc.org/media/series/pnqdry6/the-word-and-the-world-conference

Listen to Ezra Klein interview Marilynn Robinson (author of "Reading Genesis") right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marilynne-robinson-on-biblical-beauty-human-evil-and/id1548604447?i=1000648054080


Sources used for this episode:

*The NIV Application Commentary: Genesis by Dr. John Walton

*Word Biblical Commentary: Genesis 1-15 by Gordon J. Wenham

*The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, Victor H Matthews & Mark W. Chavalas

*Commentary on the Torah by Richard Elliott Friedman

*The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17 by Victor P. Hamilton

*Reading Genesis by Marilynn Robinson

*Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation edited by J. Daryl Charles


Opening Music: Struttin With Some Barbeque by Louis Armstrong

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