Framing Genesis One in elusive concepts from the ANE world that Genesis refutes, John Walton has created a “ Lost World ” in which the Creator, Genesis and truth are lost in a deep, dark, chaotic void of speculation. His self-styled “explorations” in Genesis One unfold an evolving mythology shaped in a context he has created by “tracking” the text through that ANE world. In his talk, Drake will discuss how Walton describes formulating this new cultural perspective, how he imposes it on what is probably the largest corpus of literature available from the period, and how this confusingly and misleadingly reframes the God, the text, the purpose and the meaning of Genesis One. Walton’s Genesis One unveils a God who, without accommodating himself to their alien and diverse conceptual world, is unable to speak to people he is supposed to have evolved. It proposes an account of God’s failure to establish order from the disorder with which Walton asserts God started. It portrays God as delegating that disordered world to mankind’s ongoing failure to establish a better order. Walton’s Genesis One offers no hope to its readers for life or human endeavour – including in the field of science – in a world in which God is silenced by the mythologies of lost ancient cultures. In contrast to this, Drake will draw attention to how the text of Genesis One, the God it reveals, the creation account it gives, and the place of mankind in that creation, are each distinctly different from Walton’s “Lost World” and the ANE conceptual world in which his explorations are lost. Genesis One will be shown to be God’s history of his making out of nothing the heavens and the earth and everything in them, including mankind, in six days. Drake will explain how Genesis One reveals God speaking with clarity to bring an ordered creation into being with life and purpose. He will show how in this introductory chapter and foundation to the Bible, God speaks with the same clarity in a reliable verbal revelation to mankind about what God wants his creatures to know about himself, his works and his call to serve him as Creator. God’s Genesis One offers hope to his readers for life and human endeavour – including in the field of science – in a world in which mankind’s commission to serve an unlost God is revealed through a text by which God speaks truth to the people of every culture.

Daniel 9:24-26  "Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.  Daniel Chapter 9. The Seventy Weeks (Halley Bible Handbook)  The Captivity, which was then drawing to a close, had lasted 70 years. Daniel is here told by the angel that it would yet be "70 weeks" till the coming of the Messiah (24).  The "70 weeks" is generally understood to mean 70 weeks of years, that is, 70 sevens of years, or seven times 70 years, that is 490 years. As if the angel were saying, The Captivity has been 70 years; the period between the Captivity and the Coming of the Messiah will be seven times that long.  Seven, and cycles of seven, sometimes have symbolic meanings; yet the actual facts of this prophecy are most amazing, as follows:  The date from which the 70 weeks was to be counted was the decree to rebuild Jerusalem (25). There were three decrees issued by Persian kings for this purpose (536 B.C., 457 B.C., 444 B.C., see under Ezra). The principal one of these was 457 B.C.  The 70 weeks is subdivided into 7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week (25, 27). It is difficult to see the application of the "7 weeks"; but the 69 weeks (including the 7) equal 483 days, that is, on the year-day theory (Ezekiel 4:6), which is the commonly accepted interpretation, 483 years.  This 483 years is the period between the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the coming of the "Anointed One" (25). The decree to rebuild Jerusalem, as noted above, was 457 B.C. Adding 483 years to 457 B.C. brings us to A.D. 26, the very year that Jesus was baptized and began his public ministry. A most remarkable fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy, even to the year.  Further, within 3 1/2 years Jesus was crucified, that is, "in the midst of the one week" "the Anointed One" was "cut off," "purged away sin and brought in everlasting righteousness" (24, 26, 27).  Thus Daniel foretold not only the Time at which the Messiah would appear, but also the Duration of his Public Ministry, and his Atoning Death for Human Sin.  Some think that God's chronology was suspended at the death of Christ, to remain so while Israel is scattered, and that the last half of the "one week" belongs to the time of the End.

Link to my Lewontin article review https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/an-examination-of-richard-c.-lewontins-billions-and-billions-of-demons-394214 Evolution Wars response https://newschristianview.weebly.com/news-christian-view-blog/my-commentary-on-claudia-walliss-2005-article-the-evolution-wars God vs Science response https://newschristianview.weebly.com/news-christian-view-blog/god-vs-science-an-expose-on-the-article-by-david-van-biema Creation science organizations you can do better https://newschristianview.weebly.com/news-christian-view-blog/a-call-to-creationist-organizations-you-must-do-better Does God exist debate why we are losing more than we should https://newschristianview.weebly.com/news-christian-view-blog/does-god-exist-debate-why-christians-are-losing-more-than-they-should-be https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/the-does-god-exist-debate-why-christians-are-losing-more-than-they-should-be-452592#regular_reviews Darwin Worship alive and well- my experience with Darwin worship in college https://newschristianview.weebly.com/news-christian-view-blog/darwin-worship-and-anti-creationism-still-alive-and-well-in-2018 There is no Darwin Conspiracy https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/there-is-no-darwin-conspiracy-394222 My Review of the Book, the First Gene https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/the-first-gene-the-last-word--394232 The Creation vs Evolution debate continues in spite of denials and tactics https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/the-creation-vs-evolution-debate-continues-in-spite-of-denials-and-tactics-394244   Ham/Nye debate review https://www.booksie.com/posting/danzil/hamnye-debate-2014-394246 My defense of Dr. Carl Werner against a “creationists” attack https://danzil.substack.com/p/and-so-it-begins-the-attack-of-the Wide Spread Ape Man Fraud https://danzil.substack.com/p/widespread-ape-man-fraud-uncovered

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