Why God had to call Abraham. The process of going from a high civilization, with great promise, to a paganized world system. What constitutes the “world system.” Man’s knowledge is derived, never original, because man is not omniscient. Truth is discovered by man and was there prior to man.

The Bible is communication from the Creator concerning most everything, not just religious matters. The sons of Noah used high technology and generated civilization very quickly. The textual structure of the Book of Genesis, as it relates to what occurs in Genesis chapters 10 and 11. The Tower of Babel event.

Nourishing your soul with thoughts of Biblical events. God’s control of human history. The sons of Noah. Using Scripture to rethink history. The strange shape of history following the flood.

Genesis chapters 10 and 11 form a bridge from the flood to Abraham and provide the background for every culture that will ever exist. Climatic changes after the flood. The “Ice Age” problem is answered in Scripture. History moves at a steady state, periodically interrupted by high-energy events. Explaining evidences of primitive man. Questions and answers.

Exclusivism as it relates to the gospel and to the call of Abraham. God’s design of the rainbow. The Noahic Covenant set up boundaries to physical laws, controlling the physics of nature. The flood was both a terrestrial and extraterrestrial event. The post-flood period, before the call of Abraham.

You will either interpret the world around you using the Word of God or let the world around you interpret the Word of God. On the biblical basis, there are two levels of existence: the Creator level and the creature level. Since the fall, creature existence is abnormal. The biblical view is that evil is caused by mankind and angelic rebellion, which means guilt before God. In paganism, evil is normal and everyone is a victim. Features of God’s judgments.

Reintroduction of the Biblical Framework series. Where the Framework series will be going. Paul’s strategic envelopment in Athens. There are only two creation stories: the pagan view and the biblical view. The pagan view denies creation out of nothing (ex nihilo) and denies the Creator/creature distinction. Questions and answers.

Interpreting historical geology inside a Biblical Framework. Sin distorts thinking. The pagan concept of “continuity of being” has existed from ancient times. Sedimentary rock is formed under water and is consistent with a high-energy, water-based catastrophe that changed the world (the global flood). Uniformitarian-based geology versus flood-based geology.

True biblical faith is locked into historical reality. Evolution is a modern statement of an ancient idea: continuity of being. Dating systems to measure the age of the earth: non-terrestrial clocks (which are more speculative and require a longer chain of conjecture). Not all constants show an earth of great age. For “theological” reasons, cosmologists assume a universe with no center and no boundaries. A theory explaining a universe with both continuities and discontinuities.

Physics: dating systems and measuring ages. Salvation by works is related to evolution: transmuting a sinner into a saint. The Bible makes faith contingent on historical reality. The term “natural law” implies that nature never changes. Without a lawgiver, “natural law” is just conjecture. Various dating systems to measure the age of the earth: terrestrial clocks.