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‘The Lost World of Genesis One’ was an interesting and challenging read for me. I found Walton’s previous work ‘Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament’ a little less thought provoking but also more substantive. His ‘Survey of the Old Testament’ co-authored with Andrew Hill is as good as any other that I’ve encountered. A common theme among his works is that creation-ex-nihilo is not to be found in the Old Testament and that the Israelites, like their ancient near eastern neighbors were only interested in how God created the cosmos to be functional. In the ‘Lost World’ he provides an alternative interpretation of Genesis 1: that the seven days in this chapter describe a functional account of how God inaugurated an already existing cosmos to be his Temple habitat. Within this temple habitat He would rule, control, and maintain His creation. Since this inauguration account is not an actual historical account but a functional account of creation, it has no bearing or relation to the scientific understanding of how the universe and our world come to be. Therefore, people of faith don’t have to worry about whether science contradicts the creation account in Genesis 1.Per Walton, the Ancient Near East (ANE) concept of creation did not regard an object, or entity, as fully created until it was separated or differentiated from its environment, given a name or identity, and assigned a function. This description of how the ancients viewed the process of creation has real explanatory power to illuminate certain passages in the Old testament. It illuminates the fact that the sun, moon, and stars did not come into existence on day 4 for they had already come into existence materially by day 1. It is on day 4 that they were differentiated from their environment then given an identity and a function in relation to life on the earth. In another passage, Psalm 147:4, we are told that God counts the number of the stars and that He calls them all by name. Applying this ANE concept of creation to this verse indicates that the fact that each of the heavenly bodies is known by name means that each of the Heavenly bodies has an individual function. That they are also all counted by number would also seem to indicate that they have a collective function.What I find problematical concerns the following:1. Genesis 1 is not history but a description of an inauguration ceremony that ancient Israel may have used (perhaps annually) to describe God’s functional preparation of the cosmos as a temple for his habitation.There are a few problems with this. Not the least of which is that there is no concrete evidence that that such an inauguration ceremony ever existed in practice or even in the minds of the ancient Israelites. All Walton can provide is vague hints that this might have been so. Second, it seems apparent that the entire book of Genesis is presented as actual history, albeit history with a theological point of view, but actual history nevertheless. Whether one believes this history to be accurate is irrelevant to the point that the author of Genesis is presenting it as history. It is for this reason that I can’t accept the literary Framework interpretation of Genesis one. Genesis 2:4 declares that all the preceding verses are the chronicles or ‘toledoth’ [Hebrew] of the heavens and earth. This word ‘toledoth’ occurs throughout the book of Genesis. Walton seems to contend that it is used only as a literary marker or introduction. But every time it occurs in Genesis the author is emphasizing that he is providing a real historical chronology, most of the time by way of genealogy. Third, if Genesis one is not history but a ceremonial metaphor one cannot objectively discern where literary metaphor ends and actual history begins. If the author of Genesis intentionally combined literary metaphor and actual history one would expect to see such transition markers inserted for the benefit of the reader. No one, so far that I have read, has been able to demonstrate the existence of such markers.2. The Cosmos is being portrayed as God’s Temple in which He will take rest and use as the control room headquarters for His operational direction of the cosmos.My first observation is that there is no mention of a ‘temple’ anywhere in this passage nor anywhere else in the book of Genesis. It is certainly strange that such an important concept is not mentioned anywhere at all in a passage supposedly relating an inauguration ceremony for it. Secondly, the ANE functional concept of the temple presented in this book seems at odds with the one for the Jewish temple presented in both Old and New Testaments. I can’t find an instance in either the Old or New Testament where the Temple of God is described as the operational headquarters of deity. What I do find is that It is the place where the sins of men can be dealt with so that men and women can have fellowship with their creator. There is an earthly temple but more importantly there is also a heavenly temple (Heb 8:1-5; Rev 11:19; 14:15-7; 15:5-8; 16:1,17). Both are dedicated solely for the eradication of human sin. In both the heavenly and earthly temples it is the altar that is the central feature (comp Heb. 8:5 with Rev 8:3-5; 14:18; 6:7). It is also important to note that Hebrews 8:5 makes it clear that the earthly temple is a replica of the heavenly temple. This means that the heavenly temple does not encompass all of creation nor does it encompass all of Heaven itself. When God creates the new heaven and new earth there will no longer be a temple in the new creation (Rev 21:22). This is because sin will no longer be a problem in the new creation and thus there will be no need for a temple and its altar to deal with it. The implication that there is no constructed temple in the new creation runs counter to the common pagan ANE concept of the purpose and need for a temple for deity presented by Walton. If there is no temple in the new creation subsequent to the eradication of human sin, then there was no need for a temple in Genesis one prior to the introduction of human sin in chapter 3. While Walton’s scholarship in establishing the concept of temple function among the peoples of the ANE is impressive it also seems to me that he has erred in imposing this pagan concept of the temple onto Genesis 1.3. Genesis 1 is an entirely functional account of creation. Material existence is not in view in the creation account and neither is the concept of ‘Creation Ex Nihilo’, the creation of something from nothing.I have no reason to question Walton’s description of the general cultural understanding in the ANE as to what it means to create nor do I have reason to dispute that the pagan cultures surrounding Israel were not interested in how something acquired material existence. On the other hand, I do have reason to question the assertion that the culture of the nation of Israel also had no interest in how the material universe came into being. The creation by God of all things out of nothing was emphasized by the ancient Jewish authors of 2 Maccabees (7:28), 2 Baruch (21:4), and 2 Enoch (24:2). All three were probably written in the 2nd century BC which means that the writers were still steeped in the ANE culture of Israel. Furthermore, the New Testament writers also emphasized Creation Ex Nihilo by God (Rom 4:17; Heb 11:3). Walton acknowledges the NT references to Creation Ex Nihilo but attributes them to a growing interest in material aspects in New Testament times rather than as a reference to Genesis 1. While I do not deny the New testament interest in the cause of material existence of things it also seems clear to me that the shared understanding and emphasis of all these ancient writers on Creation Ex Nihilo is based on their shared understanding of Genesis 1 as a historical account of how the Heavens and earth came into material existence.It has been the near unanimous traditional interpretation of the ancient Christian Church and Judaism from the third century BC until the 10th century A.D that Genesis 1:1 is an absolute statement describing the initial creation of all matter and the heavenly bodies from nothing by God (see Gordon Wenham’s commentary on Genesis, Vol 1, p 13). Walton however sees Genesis 1:1 as a summary introduction of the functional creation account detailed in the rest of Genesis chapter one. His strongest argument in favor of this is that Genesis 2:1 states that “thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished” indicating that Gen 1:1 must be seen as recapitulated in detail from 1:2 to 2:1. His point is valid only if one sees all of Genesis one as referring to only a functional creation. If 1:1 describes the material creation coming into existence, then the rest of the following verses can also be seen as the shaping of the material created in verse one to a completed product by day seven. In which case 2:1 need not be seen as ending only functional creation processes but as the end of the entire creative process begun in 1:1. But more importantly the apostle John in the first three verses of his gospel appears to have interpreted Genesis 1:1 in this manner: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (Jn. 1:1-3 NKJ). It seems clear to me at least that John is referring to Creation Ex Nihilo for the entire creation and tying it to a common interpretation of Genesis 1:1. That John is referring to Genesis 1:1 is demanded by the phrase “In the beginning” which translates the Hebrew exactly to the point of even leaving out the Greek definite article before the word ‘beginning’ to match the same anarthrous construction in the Hebrew. Since Walton argues that the culture of the first century AD took a greater interest in material creation than previous generations it would be difficult for him to deny that John is referring to creation ex nihilo and remain consistent.4. A scholar’s knowledge of a long dead ancient culture is vitally necessary to interpret Genesis 1.If Genesis is a result of God’s inspired revelation to mankind would it likely have been written in such a way that only a long dead culture could truly understand it? From a historical/theological perspective the opposite has been true. This phenomenon is referred to by theologians as progressive revelation.Theologians and Bible scholars have noted this progression in the development and expansion of concepts and doctrine from its simplest form in the earliest books of the Old Testament to their development through to the end of the New Testament. This development of understanding continued even after the completion of the Canon. J. Oliver Buswell in his Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion notes that though the doctrine of the Trinity is certainly revealed in the Scriptures that ‘it is was not until the Council of Nicaea, 325 A.D., that it was unequivocally defined in conscience of the church’. Similarly the doctrine of the human and divine natures in Christ was not made systematically explicit until Chalcedon in 451 A.D. (Vol 1, p. 384). The creation ex nihilo passages in the New Testament should be seen as commentary on Genesis 1 and not unrelated concepts. In like manner, our understanding of the semantics of physical and temporal phenomena described in scripture have developed over time. In other words God has given revelation concerning his material creation in language that could be received and processed in a limited way by the ancient Israelites but not necessarily completely understood. Yet I believe that it was also given in such a way so that it would speak to all generations and cultures with the necessary interpretive keys embedded within text. As an illustration of embedded keys, Walton may be correct that the ancient Israelites held to the view that the firmament (KJV), or expanse (in most modern versions) was a solid dome. But notice that in Genesis 1:8 God calls the firmament ‘heaven’. In Job 35:5 and Psalm 8:8 heaven clearly refers to the air in the sky or the atmosphere and not to a solid dome. Even if most ancient Israelites misunderstood the word there was still the possibility of a correct understanding of these passages.If Genesis is presented as actual history then concordism is not something to be avoided as Walton would like to do. Instead concordism would appear to be a necessity to bring about the correct intersection of Genesis history and science. I still find that the Day-Age view of Genesis 1 provides the most exegetically viable view and the most intellectually satisfying understanding of this passage in retaining the inspired revelatory aspect of Genesis.

Well written and an interesting take based on looking at Genesis 1 from the worldview of the author in the ancient Near East. Dr. Walton has good arguments based on the Hebrew text and the best point is how the Bible is not a scientific book. I am both a scientist (medical research, toxicology, molecular biology) and a Christian. I get frustrated when people try to "see" scientific theories in theological texts. The people authoring and reading ancient books had no knowledge of our science or the changing science of tomorrow. Science is ever changing and what we believe today will not be what we believe tomorrow. We can detect the physical world and that is all. Metaphysics is beyond the scope of science so trying to argue a reading of theological books based on scientific theories makes no sense.Whether you agree with Dr. Walton's theory or not, it is a well written book and will make you think about science and the Bible in different ways. We can have our own presuppositions but for anyone seeking answers to questions, we need to research ideas we may not have heard. I read on Ken Ham's site much about how this book is wrong and it is false teaching. I have no problem with Ken Ham but for anyone to come out and state categorically that their idea is correct and anyone who disagrees is teaching falsely (unless it is obviously false from a Scriptural basis) seems like hubris to me. I can see both Dr. Walton and Ken Ham as brothers in Christ whether I believe their theories or not. Since the Bible was not written to inform anyone on science or the material world, I lean towards Dr. Walton's side. This in no way negates my belief in Jesus as God or any acts written about in the Bible. I have to look at the Bible as the Word of God but also interpret the meaning based on the worldview of the writers and not what I "feel" is correct.

The book authored by John H. Walton is laid out in 18 propositions with a summary, conclusion, and a FAQs section. The essence of the author's view is that Genesis 1 represents ancient cosmology which has functional concerns as its primary focus and not material origins as we today would think of it. He further argues that Genesis 1 should be seen as the establishment of the world as God's temple. I find his arguments much more persuasive than those offered by the literalism of young earth creationism or the concordism of old earth creationism (Hugh Ross being an example).I did find Walton's insistence on the distinction between teological versus dysteological views of evolution to be a bit much (he is following Denis O. Lamoureux here), mostly because the distinction is a metaphysical one and not germane to the science itself. I also have some qualms with the way he presents "Neo-Darwinism" as if it was a monolithic viewpoint when in fact there are people within the paradigm that hold to various metaphysical views regarding purpose or its lack of in evolution.Despite these disagreements Walton does show why and how one can hold to a serious view of Genesis 1 and to modern concepts of science without them necessarily being in conflict.This is a short read and one that I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest in the origins debate and its relationship to faith and the Bible.

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