SPECIAL: Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account

Host Dave Lester spoke at "The Word and the World: Science and the Christian Life" conference in Kitsap County on Saturday, June 8th, 2024. He did a breakout session talking about "Interpreting the Genesis Creation Account" and also discussed the interpretative lenses we have been handed from a cultural war brewing before we were born.

Visit "The Word and the World" Conference web page: https://www.ckpc.org/media/series/pnqdry6/the-word-and-the-world-conference

Listen to Ezra Klein interview Marilynn Robinson (author of "Reading Genesis") right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marilynne-robinson-on-biblical-beauty-human-evil-and/id1548604447?i=1000648054080

Sources used for this episode:

*The NIV Application Commentary: Genesis by Dr. John Walton

*Word Biblical Commentary: Genesis 1-15 by Gordon J. Wenham

*The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, Victor H Matthews & Mark W. Chavalas

*Commentary on the Torah by Richard Elliott Friedman

*The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17 by Victor P. Hamilton

*Reading Genesis by Marilynn Robinson

*Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation edited by J. Daryl Charles

Opening Music: Struttin With Some Barbeque by Louis Armstrong