Welcome to After the Fact, A Knowing Faith Many episode where we look to take a big question and address it in just a few minutes.

Typically the questions we consider will line up with our larger topic for this season.

That's certainly true for our time today.

We're discussing Genesis 1 through 11 on Knowing faith this season and today I get to chat with Dr. Ross Inman.

Dr. Inman is an associate professor of philosophy at the southeastern Baptist theological

seminary. If you showed up on campus you might find him teaching in the Master of Arts

or even in the PhD programs for apologetics and philosophy.

He is also the editor of philosophia Christi,

the academic journal of the

philosophical philosophical society. Dr. Inman, welcome to After the Fact and thank you for joining us.

Childs my pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. So here's the big question. What is natural moral law and what does it have to do with

Genesis? Excellent question. Well as I see it a biblical conception of natural

moral law

entails at least the following two commitments.

So the first commitment would be something like this,

that God has built into the natural created order a moral dimension.

So just as you might think a piece of wood

has a sort of natural grain to it,

that so to the moral realm has a natural grain to it that's grounded in

God's creational intentional purposes. So that would be the first tenant which

I'll impact here in a second and then the second thing would be the first tenant, which I'll impact here in a second.

And then the second thing would be that God has so created human beings

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