{"id":3292,"date":"2024-04-28T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","slug":"house-or-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE OR HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an attempt to persuade the diehard You-Must-Believe-the-Earth-Is-4,000 Years-Old crowd, Dr. John Walton asks this question: what sort of origin story is the book of Genesis trying to tell?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it telling the story of a house or a home?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it&#8217;s the story of a house, then factual data regarding materials used, the date it was built, who did the work, and the actual blueprints would be all you need.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if it&#8217;s telling a story of how a home came to be, none of that matters to any great extent.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, you&#8217;d expect to hear about the various individuals in the house and their relationships to each other along with any significant milestones in the life of that family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we read Genesis as a &#8220;house story&#8221;, we overlook the main thrust of the history and miss the point entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to persuade the diehard You-Must-Believe-the-Earth-Is-4,000 Years-Old crowd, Dr. John Walton asks this question: what sort of origin story is the book of Genesis trying to tell?\u00a0 Is it telling the story of a house or a home? If it&#8217;s the story of a house, then factual data regarding materials used, the date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}