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Gemini AI Comments On The Framework View Of Genesis 1

In preparation for another blog post I’m working on, I decided to find out just how probable or improbable it would be for Days 1-3 and Days 3-6 of Genesis 1 to correspond to each other in the neat way that adherents of The Framework Hypothesis point out. I went to Gemini AI, an AI chat bot created by Google and posed my questions. The interaction was interesting. At the end of it, I decided the conversation might be worth posting on the blog. After all, other bloggers have done something simila...

Genesis 1 and Psalm 115: The Imago Dei and The Intermediate State

I have been blessed over the past several months to have experienced the psalms as they were intended to be consumed, as songs! A little while back, I wrote an article promoting The Psalms Project, which is a project headed by Shane Heilman in which he teams up with other music artists in an undertaking to set all 150 Psalms to contemporary music. However, Shane isn’t the only one making the Psalms musical again. In the age of AI, I have found some pretty awesome sounding metal versions of Psalm...

BOOK REVIEW: “In Quest Of The Historical Adam” by William Lane Craig

I haven’t really done a book review here on the blog in a while. But this book was too thought-provoking, and my review which I was typing out for Amazon and a Facebook post started getting way too lengthy, so here we are. After having it sit in my Logos library for around 2-3 years, I finally got around to reading Dr. William Lane Craig’s “In Quest Of The Historical Adam”. This was an exciting book to read, and I believe that it has earned it place among the top books I’d recommend to people wa...

E-Books Galore! Off To The Kindle Store!

So, I have been hard at work. HARD at work, working on a project to make e-books out of all, or at least most of my blog posts. I initially wanted them to be completely, 100% free because they are already available for free here on the Cerebral Faith blog. Unfortunately, Kindle Direct Publishing won’t let me publish permanently free e-books. The good news is that (1) They will let me sell the books for ridiculously cheap prices depending on the file size. Between a minimum price of $0.99 and $2....

A Hiatus, Spiritual Warfair, and A Future Podcast

Introduction – What’s Been Going On

2022 to the present has been an extremely painful time for me. I have experienced a lot of loss, pain, and changes to my life, and this has affected the extent to which I can create content for the public. In 2022, I made the decision that I would like to become a vocational biblical scholar, so in 2023, I ended The Cerebral Faith Podcast. I ended it for several reasons; (1) I was working myself into the ground between all the hours I was getting at Dollar ...

Finding Meaning In Your Work

I’ve been doing a lot of study on the book of Proverbs lately. I’ve been reading written sermons, commentaries, devotionals, and pretty much anything related to the book of Proverbs I could get my hands on. Some of Tremper Longman III’s stuff has been the best material on this, though I also quite like Ryan P’ODowd’s commentary on Proverbs as part of “The Story Of God” conmentary series.

Proverbs has a lot to say about laziness and the value of hard work. For example, Proverbs 6:6-11 says “...

A Critique Of “Just Me and My Bible”

The Bible is an important book to put it mildly. In fact, as I’ll say in a future article, I have plans to rigorously study it more intensely than I ever have before over the next 4 years. Recently, I have started running into an idea that has always been around, but seems to be gaining enough traction to warrant an article. It’s what I call the “Just me and my Bible” approach to studying The Bible. It is this idea that you don’t need anything but your Bible in studying theology. No commentaries...

Overcoming The Bible’s Barriers Of Entry

Biblical illiteracy is at an all time high in The United States Of America. There is a bit of irony here as God’s word is more accessible than it has ever been. Bit only are there more English translations than we need being sold anywhere books are sold, but there are Bible apps for our smart phones. Not only that, but you don’t even need an app like YouVersion or The Bible App, or Logos Bible Software. You have many English translations available for free on BibleGateway.com. From Genesis to Re...

The Psalms Project

Recently, I discovered a group of music albums on Spotify called “The Psalms Project”. The albums are a compilation of various music artists who have put the Psalms from the biblical book of Psalms into, well, songs. I discovered this while searching for a song that made reference to Psalm 23. Shane Heilman is the head of the project and he performs some of the songs, but he has also teamed up with other artists such as Bethany Shawn, Nathan Hitchcock, and Nick Poppins among others. The Psalms P...

My Favorite Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Recently, I went to my local movie theater with my father and younger sister to see the movie “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.” produced by Angel Studios. I had been looking forward to this movie for quite some time. Although I must admit that I have not fully read any of Bonhoeffer’s books, I do know about him and what he did, and I also have been exposed to many of the things he said through quotations either from Facebook quotes or in other books I have read. The movie, in my opinion, was ...