Laura Hartley (PhD, Michigan State), Melanie Mock (PhD, Oklahoma State), and Anderson Campbell (DMin, George Fox University) join the panel to talk about the question of God’s gender and the Law. Is there any danger in calling God by male or female pronouns? Does the Bible have imagery that portrays God in female or mother terms? What should Christians today do with the laws in the Torah, so many of which seem strange, brutal, and unnecessary for the life of faith today?

What does it mean for God to be “Almighty”? What does it mean for God to be a “Father”—are we supposed to think that God is a man? Is God so above and beyond our concepts that we cannot even speak about God in any accurate way whatsoever? What happens when Israel leaves Egypt and heads out into the wilderness? What is “the Law” in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?

Cameron Marvin (pastor of Theophilus Church in Portland), Javier Garcia (PhD, Cambridge), and Mary Peterson (PhD, California School of Professional Psychology) join the panel to reflect on the meaning of God. Do people have a natural proclivity to believe in God? What about atheism? Do humans need God? Would nuclear war destroy our beliefs about human goodness and achievement?

A lecture on the concept of “God,” particularly in the biblical vision of the Book of Exodus. How is God revealed? What should a God be like? Should God be angry, omniscient, friendly? Does God have emotions? How is Israel’s God different from or similar to Greek philosophical conceptions of God? What is “salvation” in the biblical vision? How does the concept of “covenant” function in the Bible?

Joseph Clair (PhD, Princeton), Nijay Gupta (PhD, Durham), and Caitlin Corning (PhD, Leeds) join the panel to discuss difficult questions such as: What is the difference between “belief” and “knowledge”? Is believing in God the same as believing in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus? Are Christians “certain” of their beliefs?

A reminder that although we have no plenary lecture this week to set up our readings and panel, the panel, which is (4) in this series, will resume the discussion of the words “I believe,” the book of Genesis, and some additional issues raised by this week’s reading. This “lecture” is imply a 90 second clip of me explaining all of this.

Isaac Choi (PhD, Notre Dame), Ross McCullough (PhD, Yale), and Kristina Kays (PsyD, George Fox University) join the panel to talk about the image of God in Genesis, sin, redemption, and the theological problem of election in the Bible.

A lecture on the first two words of the Apostles Creed, "I believe...," as filtered through the book of Genesis. Delivered at George Fox University on 14 January 2019.