{"id":806,"date":"2010-11-02T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/genesis-death-hate-and-history\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T08:53:00","slug":"genesis-death-hate-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/genesis-death-hate-and-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Genesis, Death, Hate and History"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>While Ken Pulliam\u2019s posts on\u00a0Adam and Eve\u00a0in Genesis <a href=\"http:\/\/formerfundy.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/how-did-adam-and-eve-sin-if-they-were.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continue to appear<\/a>, Joel Watts addresses the issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2010\/11\/thoughts-on-proof-texting-for-hate\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">prooftexting to justify hatred and unkind behavior<\/a>\u00a0and James Bradford Pate shares <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbradfordpate.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/four-reactions-to-ken-pulliams-recent.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">four reactions to Ken\u2019s passing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I think Ken would be glad to know that he is still provoking bloggers and blog readers to have important and meaningful discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Also related to the Genesis creation stories are posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/genesis-creation-and-ancient-interpreters-before-creation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pete Enns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/11\/02\/how-much-history-in-gen-1-3-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">RJS<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edward-t-babinski.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/review-of-nick-peters-apologianicks.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ed Babinski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2368357772616515900?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Ken Pulliam\u2019s posts on\u00a0Adam and Eve\u00a0in Genesis continue to appear, Joel Watts addresses the issue of prooftexting to justify hatred and unkind behavior\u00a0and James Bradford Pate shares four reactions to Ken\u2019s passing. 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