Each generation of Christians faces its own set of theological
challenges. For this generation of Evangelicals, the question of
beginnings is taking on a new urgency. In fact, this question is now a
matter of Gospel urgency. How are we to understand the Bible’s story, if
we can have no confidence that we know how it even begins?
In terms of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the most urgent question
related to beginnings has to do with the questions related to the
existence of Adam and Eve as as them first parents to all humanity and
to the reality of the Fall as the explanation for human sinfulness and
all that comes with sin.
A report from Barbara Bradley Hagerty of National Public Radio a few
weeks is an undeniable sign that even the secular world now recognizes
that this is a question central to Christianity. Hagerty, a skilled
religion reporter, also talked to several others. Her interviews were
broadcast as report on August 9, with Steve Inskeep of NPR as host. Keep Reading...
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