#Genesis1 (TTwC Season 7 Episode 2)
Channel: Vandalia1998
Date: 25/03/2019

Discription as told by Kyle
1. Genesis 1 is about functional creation and not material creation due to it being a Pre-Aristotelian text. Genesis 1:1 should be say "When God created the heavens and the earth" rather than "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth".
2. The floods language is universal rhetoric but the flood itself was regional. Passages such as Joshua 21:43-45, early chapters of Judges and Lamentations 2:22 and Zephaniah 1:2-3 use universal rhetoric in places where the events were not universal. This hyperbole does not threaten the inspiration of the text. So there is no reason to doubt the biblical account because of the cultural distance we have with their society so just as we cannot penetrate beyond the literary characterization of Abraham to construct a Myers-Briggs personality profile we should not expect to penetrate beyond the literary characterization of the flood to construct a scientifically modern profile of the event. 
3. Theistic naturalism (theistic idealism) is the view that we are all in Gods mind. God guides evolution through natural law and the universe is fundamentally mental in nature. Due to this everyone's value set is in God and due to the nature of the fallen state only God has the power to bring people out of that fallen state 
4. Evil exist because we exist. There is no possible world in which people use their free will to always choose the good and so we live in a world with free will that has the least amount of evil. 
5. Gods original plan was to make the universe his eden. That initially failed but is now restored thanks to Jesus Christ providing a way back to eden and a universe where everyone has Gods objectively good value set.
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