Evan Minton's Blog, page 9
November 23, 2022
Responding To Tsumura on “Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology”
I am someone who favors the Functional Origins/Cosmic Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. This view is prominently defended by and most commonly assosiated with John H. Walton of Wheaton College. Walton has defended this thesis primarily in two books; one scholarly level book and one popular level book. The former being Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology and the latter being The Lost World Of Genesis One: ...
November 15, 2022
Response To Noel Week’s Critique Of “The Lost World Of Genesis One”
I am one who fully endorses what I like to call The Cosmic Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. Although technically, the name doesn’t fully encompasses my entire view or the view of the Old Testament scholar this view is most commonly assosiated with, it does point to the main point of Genesis 1; that God has prepared the cosmos to be His temple over a period of 7 days. Throughout the 7 days, God has a...
October 31, 2022
Cerebral Faith Blog Series You Should Read
When I want to go really, really in depth on a given topic; I do one of two things; (1) I write a series of blog posts instead of just one, or (2) I write a book. Sometimes I do both, writing the latter and adding even more detail than the former, with the book being an expansion of the article series. Ever since I started Cerebral Faith 10 years ago, I’ve been dedicated to giving people good written content that’s...
October 29, 2022
Q&A: A New Approach To Arguing That The Bible Is Pro Slavery
A Roman Stoic philosopher named Dio Chrysostom (40-115 AD) explicitly condemned slavery in his 15th discourse “On Slavery and Freedom II (See 15:24-28).
It was in the context of a dialogue between two characters (real or imagined) where they were debating whether one of them was a slave. It turned into a debate over what slavery was, and the crowd settled on the theory that a man becomes a slave if he is taken pos...
October 28, 2022
Why I Favor The Minimal Facts Approach Over The Maximalist One
The Minimal Facts Argument is an argument for the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth’s resurrection from the dead. It is championed by Drs. Gary Habermas and Michael Licona; two New Testament scholars. Licona wrote his dissertation on this argument and that book became “The Resurrection Of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach”, but Dr. Licona and Dr. Habermas wrote a popular book defending this argument called “Th...
October 24, 2022
Digimon Survive and Soteriology In The Molinist Framework
Since January of 2021, my love for the Digimon Franchise was rekindled and has been burning brightly and consistently ever since. It started with deciding to watch the Digimon Adventure Tri movies and Last Evolution Kizuna. After that, I rewatched all the anime episodes, including the newer series like Adventure 2020 and Digimon Ghost Game which, as the time of this writing, still hasn’t concluded. I also played th...
October 22, 2022
How Bleach Helped Me Conceptualize A Couple Of Biblical Concepts
Bleach was and still is my no. 1 favorite anime and manga series ever since I first watched it as a teenager on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Written and drawn by Tite Kubo, the story features the adventures of 15 year old Ichigo Kurosaki, a high school student with the ability to see spirits and talk to them. In episode 1, Ichigo gains the ability of a Soul Reaper from Rukia Kuchiki and uses his new powers to figh...
October 20, 2022
Q&A: Human Sacrifice In Numbers 31?
Good morning/afternoon/evening! I was chatting with people in a Christian discord server and one guy had questions regarding human sacrifice in the bible. He brought up Exodus and I showed him reasons why that interpretation was wrong, then he asked what to do with Numbers 31:40. He’s a Christian and he’s heard a lot of arguments from skeptics/liberal scholars, so he’s struggling a little bit. I and some other peopl...
July 29, 2022
Lessening My Workload
Cerebral Faith has become very, very, very involved. I’m always trying to think of ways to put out good content on three different formats without working myself to death. Running a blog, a podcast, and a YouTube channel has become almost like a full time job, which is bad because it isn’t a full time job. I get paid in what I call “Patreon Peanuts” to make this stuff. I work second shift at Dollar General. Somethi...
June 9, 2022
Responding To D.A Carson’s Commentary On Matthew 5:44-47
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post that wasn’t a book review. Frankly, this one wouldn’t have been written,1 but as I was doing research for my upcoming Sermon On The Mount series, I found that I had written such a long note in Logos, I might as well share my thoughts here. The note is certainly long enough to be a blog article, so why not?
In his commentary “Matthew,” in The Expositor’s Bible Comment...
