by Marcello | Dec 22, 2018 | Creation Care
Noah’s Ark by Chris Light By Chris Light – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57301804 Genesis 9 within the Greater Bible Story ( Part One, Part Two, Part Three) The story of the Flood is foundational to...
by Marcello | Dec 16, 2018 | Creation Care
Part Three Violence and Shalom ( Part One, Part Two) While God does accommodate to human weakness and at times allows limited forms of violence, his heart is always for non-violence and his ideal of shalom represented in the first two chapters of Genesis, and...
by Marcello | Dec 10, 2018 | Creation Care
Part Two The Concession of Meat-Eating (For Part One go here) After the Flood has destroyed all of humanity and the animal creation, apart from those within the ark, Noah offers sacrifices of clean animals to God. Much has been made of the words immediately after...
by Marcello | Dec 2, 2018 | Creation Care, Uncategorized
Part One Genesis 9:3 is often used to justify meat-eating as God’s will in the present age. At the same time, Genesis 9:3 is normally juxtaposed with Genesis 1:29 — in which humanity is given a vegan diet — with Genesis 9:3 as de facto annulling the previous scripture...
by Marcello | Aug 27, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART SIX 6. Conclusions In summary, in this essay I have argued that 1 Timothy 4 is simply reiterating the teachings of traditional Judaism about the goodness of God’s creation, marriage and the body. It does this...
by Marcello | Aug 20, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE Last week in Part Five, we learned about how the Jewish Tradition has understood the blessing of food before meals. We learned that in the “Jewish tradition meat and fish, together with animal foods, come last in...
by Marcello | Aug 13, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE We left off in Part Four discussing whereby when God created each part of the creation he saw that “it was good.” The light, the land, the vegetation and seed bearing plants/trees, the heavens, every living...
by Marcello | Aug 5, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR 3. The Goodness of Creation After having condemned asceticism, Paul goes on to counter the teaching of the proto-Gnostics in regard to creation. Sadly, once again the older translations, while excellent, like the KJV and even YLT...
by Marcello | Jul 29, 2018 | Creation Care
We left off in Part Two where Marcello is discussing asceticism, that it is often a subset of legalism and alloyed with it; but though it is normal that they would appear together, they must be distinguished from each other, they are not the same thing. PART ONE PART...
by Marcello | Jul 22, 2018 | Creation Care
We continue with Part Two….. 2. The Text of 1 Timothy 4 1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their...
