The O’s Have It Part II: God’s Omnipresence in the Bible

Part II — Where Is God? Rethinking Omnipresence Christianity taught me to say, “God is everywhere.” Scripture taught me to ask, “Then why do some places feel empty?” What is omnipresence? Omnipresence is the idea that God is all present everywhere. Like Santa Claus in the song, who “knows when you are sleeping, knows when…

The O’s Have It Part I: God’s Omniscience in the Bible

If God knows everything, why does Genesis show a God who asks questions? One of the first things I learned in Seminary was that the gap between biblical and theological studies grew wider as scholars specialized. Even the vocabulary and basic assumptions about belief, faith, and the nature of God differed between the two camps. I was…

CREATION, COSMOGONY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Deciphering the Relationship between Humanity and the Earth in the Book of Genesis

Jump to the Video Presentation The book of Genesis has often been at the forefront of debates surrounding the environment and our role within it. How should we interpret humanity’s relationship with the Earth from a scriptural perspective? In a video presentation, I delved into the two creation narratives in Genesis and their implications for…

Genesis 1, Bereshit, and the Big Bang

Genesis 1 is perhaps one of the Bible’s most well-known and quotable opening lines. Many can recite the King James Version, “In the beginning …”. Theologians like to point out the priestly nature of the first chapter of Genesis, how it describes God’s supreme power in the universe and reflects temple imagery elsewhere in Scripture.…