by Marcello | Jan 15, 2019 | Creation Care
Landscape of Paradise and the Loading of the Animals in Noah’s Ark By Jan Brueghel the Elder – Sotheby’s, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7792047 (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) As it was in the Days of Noah In...
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...