Evan Minton's Blog

I Am Charlie Kirk – It’s More Than Politics

I’ve had a lot of time to sit and think about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative political commentator who made a lot of content for Turning Point USA and who spoke and debated on a lot of college campuses. There are a few reasons why this has caused me so much anger. Yes, it is the murder of an innocent man. That is more than enough reason to feel outrage. However, (1) there are many, many leftists CELEBRATING his murder. The thing is, you don’t have to try to hard to find...

Growing Weary Of The Evil World

The past couple of days have been really terrible. This is going to be a rather informal blog post, it may read more conversationally than some of my other posts, but there are things happening in the world, and I just feel the need to talk about them. as I write this, I am using the talk to text feature on my phone and the Jetpack app. Normally, I like to type my blog articles on my computer, even if I don’t intend for them to be 50 minute scholarly essays that have 100 footnotes citing my sour...

What The Intelligent Design Movement Could Do To Better Itself

When I first started getting into Christian Apologetics as an 18-year-old kid, I was introduced to the intelligent design movement. Led by big names such as Stephen Meyer and William Demski, people in this movement seek to establish the existence of a creator and designer of the cosmos and of life.

Ever since it’s inception, the intelligent design movement has had an uphill battle, trying to establish itself as an alternative scientific view of origins to what is perceived as an atheistic vie...

The Serpent In Eden: The Case For A Seraph Named Satan

In this essay, I am going to make a case that the serpent in Eden was not a mere ordinary garden snake, nor was it an undefined, chaos creature, but it was a serpentine divine being. Either a seraph or a cherub, and that, therefore, the traditional view that this being is Satan is correct. We know this from later books of the Bible, such as Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, as well as the New Testament in passages like Revelation 12:8. Once again, I will rely heavily on the work of the late Dr. Michael ...

Psalm 22: A Look At The Darkest Psalm In The Bible

In this essay, I will explain how Psalm 22 matches up with the description of Jesus, crucifixion in the gospels of Matthew and John perfectly. And thus, although it was initially by a severely depressed Israelite under unimaginable duress, the doctrine of Sensus Plenior is at play and Psalm 22 is ultimately a messianic prophecy that Jesus fulfilled in His death on the cross. In addition to this, I want to have a subsection talking about the supernatural nature of the “Bulls of Bashan”. I will ar...

Yahweh Or Yahweh’s Agent?: A Response To Ronn Johnson

The late Dr. Michael S. Heiser has been a huge influence on me as a Bible student. He and John Walton independently showed me just how insanely interesting The Old Testament in particular, and The Bible as a whole, can really be. Unfortunately, The Lord took him to Heaven in 2023. But his organization, The Michael Heiser Foundation, has started up a new podcast called “The Divine Council Worldview Podcast”. So far, the podcast has 69 episodes, and I am 26 episodes in. I discovered biblical schol...

Psalm 91: Your Battle Anthem Against The Devil

As I have said in a couple of previous blog articles, I have been blessed to experience the Psalms as songs. The vast majority of these are performed by real people – a group called The Psalms Project – but there are a handful of musical Psalms I have found on YouTube that have been AI Generated. One of those is Psalm 91, and one of the things I like about the version I linked to is that it sounds like an 80s Christian Rock band is performing it. Listening to the Psalms as songs just “hits diffe...

The Mindset That Breathed Life Back Into My Prayer Life

I don’t like closing my eyes and bowing my head and folding my hands. I don’t like talking to God, as if he is some human king I do not personally know, and I need to be horribly afraid of and watch all of my Ps and Qs when I make my requests. “Sire, I humbly beesech thine urgent aid!” on pains of getting “too friendly” with God. After all “Jesus is your Lord, not your buddy. Don’t be too cozy with him.” My prayer life dried up one time because of legalism and a mindset that was based on a half ...

Why I Switched My Main Bible Translation (NIV to ESV)

I’ve been a student of The Bible since I first got saved at 17 years old. What started as me being a baby Christian who liked to just read a passage or two a day turned into me being a mature believer with an addiction so bad I payed $50.00 a month for Logos Bible Software so I could dive into the original languages, have multiple commentaries open, take extensive notes, and….*clears throat*. Well, let’s just say that I’m passionate about studying God’s word. And no matter how shallow or deep I ...

Why I No Longer Think Walton’s View Of Genesis 1 Functions

For a few years now, I have settled on a particular reading of Genesis 1, most popularly endorsed by the biblical scholar John Walton in books like “The Lost World Of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and The Origins Debate” (a popular level book) and “Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology” (A scholarly level book). John Walton’s thesis in a nutshell is that the 7 days of Genesis 1 are 7 24-hour days in which God only ascribes functions to all of the things in the universe, rather than physically bringing...