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The Doctrine of Creation - Donald Macleod

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Donald MacLeod

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65.31

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2 January 2024

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14 November 2025

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With full captions. This is a lecture on The doctrine of Creation. The speaker was Donald Macleod who was professor of systematic theology at the Free Church College - now Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS). Macleod subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith. This lecture was transcribed and appeared as a chapter in his popular book 'A Faith to Live By' For more by Macleod on Genesis see. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLieNTYk3WrzpsvC_UdhqaNdyVOatl2w0T&si=Z9IoncllG0nGJ1Vv
There was sibilance on the original tape recording.

0:00:00 01 introduction to four creation words
0:00:23 02 the word for make. Hebrew: asah - נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה Genesis 1: 26
0:02:24 03 the word for formed. Hebrew: yatsar - וַיִּיצֶר֩ Genesis 2: 7
0:05:07 04 the word for built. Hebrew: banah - בָּנָה Genesis 2: 22
0:06:07 05 the word for created. Hebrew: bara - בָּרָ֣א Genesis 1: 1
0:13:00 06 recapitulation of the word for created. Hebrew: bara
0:13:30 07 mediate and immediate creation Hebrew: bara
0:21:43 08 recapitulation and progressive creation
0:28:11 09 recapitulation of creation words
0:28:42 10 contemporary issues - time-scale?
0:41:12 11 contemporary issues - Flood Geology
0:43:31 12 Flood Geology - ad hominem argument for creation eras
0:45:25 13 Flood Geology - a scientific and not a theological theory
0:48:54 14 tensions with Darwinism
0:56:18 15 alternatives to the doctrine of creation
0:59:57 16 the doctrine of creation in Christ

References

  1. Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time, London, 1972, p. 34. 2. Hugh Miller, The Testimony of the Rocks, Edinburgh, 1857, pp. 134 ff.

  2. W.G.T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, 1888. Vol. 1, p. 474.

  3. Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, London and Edinburgh, 1871, Vol. 1, p. 571. Hodge, Darwinism, London and Edinburgh, 1874.

  4. Gordon Wenham Genesis 1‑I5, Word Biblical Commentary, Waco, Texas, 1987, pp. 5ff

  5. Paul H. Seely, `The Firmament and the Water Above' in the Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 31 ff.

  6. op cit, p. 11.

  7. John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, The Genesis Flood, London, 1961.

  8. Hugh Miller, The Testimony of the Rocks, pp. 267ff., 383ff.