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Exploring Creation and Truth: Old Testament Theological Insights

Dive deep into the primeval history of the Old Testament to uncover theological truths about creation, the fall of man, and the Great Flood. Explore different creation and evolution theories, normative truths, and the transmission of text. Discover the theological significance of key events like the Fall of Man, Noah and the Ark, and the descendants of Seth. Gain insights into the divine concerns for all creation and the universalism within the ancestral history.

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Exploring Creation and Truth: Old Testament Theological Insights

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  1. The Old Testament River Pointe Church Fall, 2019

  2. Primeval History • Narrative • Not Unique • Creation • “Tohu Wabohu” • Order of Creation • “Imago Dei”

  3. Creation & Evolution Theories • Literal (young earth) • Gap theory (old earth) • Day –Age theory (old earth) • Theistic evolution • Progressive creationism

  4. Normative Truth The truth about values that is presumably not determinable simply by the existence or nonexistence of things or by logic alone without reference to something further.

  5. Transmission of Text Fall of Man • Garden of Eden • Tree of Life • Tree of the knowledge of good & evil (Why Not?) • Three Original Sins • Lust of the flesh • Pleasing to the eyes • Pride of Life • Immediate Consequences of Fall • Loss of innocence • First blame game • Death (3:19; 3:22) • Typology to Jesus (3:15)

  6. Mankind • First three sons of Adam & Eve • Cain; Abel; Seth • Enoch • Sons of God • Kings & Princes • Descendants of Seth • Fallen angels • Total Depravity of Man

  7. Noah and the Great Flood • Sons of Noah • Shem; Ham; Japheth • Noah pleased God and walked with God • Ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat • Noah built an altar to the Lord • Seedtime & harvest (v. 22) • Rainbow as eternal covenant

  8. Theological Point The primeval history provides a significant theological backdrop for understanding the blessings and promises that dominate the ancestral history. • It asserts a divine concern for the whole of creation in general and humanity in particular • The universalism of the primeval history is the subtext of the ancestral history, which focuses on one family as the agent for blessing all families

  9. The Old Testament River Pointe Church Fall, 2019

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