Responding To Jim Bendewald’s 7 Objections To The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1

 

I recently wrote a blog post called “The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1” which defends an interpretation that says that Genesis 1 is not an account of material origins, but of functional origins. That is, it’s not about God physically bringing things into being from non-being, but about ascribing functions to already existing things. This is what people in the Ancient Near East understood creation to be about. They understood the existence of a thing in terms of how it functioned...