Naked Bible 251: The Church Fathers and Genesis 1

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Craig Allert is a scholar specializing in Patristic Fathers, those early Christian thinkers who lived and wrote just after the end of the apostolic age to (roughly 451 AD). On today’s episode we talk with Craig about his work in analyzing how the early church fathers understood and interpreted Genesis One. We talk about the ways they approached Genesis One and how modern researchers use and abuse what the fathers said about Genesis in debating divergent views of creationism. Book: Craig Allert, Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation

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0:26.4	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast episode 251 of Church Fathers, and this is one with Craig
0:32.7	Allert, the layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar of Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:37.6	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:39.1	Pretty good.
0:40.1	It's chilly up here in the northwest.
0:41.9	Chilli are there normal.
0:43.1	Yeah, well it is getting close to Christmas time.
0:45.8	So how chilly is it in Abelene?
0:48.7	Not too bad.
0:50.5	Actually, it's raining right now.
0:52.6	So you know, it's probably in the 40s.
0:56.0	Oh wow, I didn't think it got that cold down.
0:57.7	Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, it'll get into the freezing.
0:59.8	We'll have sleet and freeze in the rain.
1:01.8	But the problem is, you know, when the rain freezes, the roads get bad.
1:05.8	So we're not too equipped to clear all the roads.
1:10.2	Guy, I lived in Dallas for a couple years when that happened and nobody knows how to drive
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