Dave Leigh

“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”
― John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)

“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If we follow the sense of the literature and its ideas of creation, we find that people in the ancient Near East did not think of creation in terms of making material things—instead, everything is function oriented. The gods are beginning their own operations and are making all of the elements of the cosmos operational. Creation thus constituted bringing order to the cosmos from an originally nonfunctional condition. It is from this reading of the literature that we may deduce a functional ontology in the ancient world—that is, that they offer accounts of functional origins rather than accounts of material origins.”
― John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate