Dave Leigh

“Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.”
― John H. Walton, Genesis

“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

“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)

“We live in a world of rights that has no sense of purpose; we live in a world of tolerance that has no sense of dignity for those tolerated or conscience concerning what is to be tolerated; we live in a world of leisure and squander it on empty pursuit; we live in a world of comfort and convenience where we can accumulate anything we want except that which matters most.”
― John H. Walton, Genesis