“Study the Word!” is the oft-heard cry on the lips of elders, teachers, pastors and seminarians. The brows furrowed, the finger precariously raised while the glare of the projector turns said teachers horned-rimmed glasses into fiendish horns. In the quest towards anti-intellectualism, proper theology and practically applied Christianity, these pillars in our lives seek to motivate us with these serious admonishments yet they don’t often tell us how.
Inspired by the ever-popular Tim Challies, I’m hoping to start interviewing important people. Since I’m not really all that popular and really don’t know that many famous people, I figured I’d start with someone important close at hand: my son.
But before entering into the next scene I?m impressed by another problem in the midst of an amazing story. God recognizes the need for Adam not to be alone?an amazing thing in itself. It is God recognizing the need, not man, and it is God who puts into effect a plan for man to be complete and to recognize his need!
We have here a land that needs some work to be done ({{Genesis 2:5}}) and no one to do that work. And it?s the type of work that the Lord God, that Sovereign King over His creation, wants some participation in. He will do His part, bringing the rain and man is to do his part?to cultivate the ground.
We encounter a second problem in this section: the apparent lack of greenery which is in direct contradiction with {{Genesis 1:11, 12}}. Here we have undeniable proof of the Bible being wrong?or do we?