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Unique Cosmology of Genesis 1 Where Do Humans Come From? English • French • Portuguese • Spanish Unique cosmology of Genesis 1 Where do humans come from? Caring for the environment: God’s business and ours Leadership: Acting responsibly and ethically 1 Volume 28 CONTENTS REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES EAST-CENTRAL AFRICA DIVISION Private Bag, Mbagathi, 00503, Nairobi, KENYA Andrew Mutero [email protected] ESSAYS DEPARTMENTS Magulilo Mwakalonge [email protected] Unique cosmology of EURO-ASIA DIVISION EDITORIAL Krasnoyarskaya Street 3, 107589 Moscow, Genesis 1 03 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 06 Will you have friends in Vladimir Tkachuk [email protected] The Genesis narrative of creation heaven? Kasap Gennady [email protected] not only presents the true account by Lisa M. Beardsley-Hardy INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION of origins, but in so depicting it, P.O. Box 830518, Miami, FL 33283-0518, USA provides a great many safeguards PROFILE Gamaliel Florez [email protected] 23 against mythology. The account Paul Chibuike Anonaba Al Powell [email protected] Interview by Ugochukwu INTER-EUROPEAN DIVISION uses certain terms and motifs and Elems Schosshaldenstrasse 17, 3006 Bern, employs them with a meaning and SWITZERLAND emphasis expressive of the biblical Marius Munteanu 26 VIEWPOINT [email protected] worldview, understanding of reality, Distractions can lead to Stephan Sigg [email protected] and cosmology of divine revelation. destruction: Lessons from Martha and Mary NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION by Gerhard F. Hasel and 12501 Old Columbia Pike, by Junjun Manalo Amparo Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600, USA Michael G. Hasel Larry Blackmer [email protected] Tracy Wood [email protected] 28 LOGOS Paul Anderson [email protected] Leadership: Acting Feel the power by Homer W. Trecartin NORTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC DIVISION responsibly and ethically P.O. Box 43, Koyang Ilsan 411-600, KOREA 12 Lessons from the life of Saul Richard Saubin [email protected] 30 ACTION REPORT Nak Hyujg Kim [email protected] The life of Saul is preserved in Reflexionando Ando Scripture, not for us to decide SOUTH AMERICAN DIVISION [Reflections]: An Adventist Caixa Postal 02600, Brasilia, 70279-970 DF, his eternal destiny but for us to radio broadcast on a BRAZIL learn how to face life’s challenges. non-Adventist university Edgard Luz [email protected] campus Carlos Campitelli Saul’s life as a leader illustrates by Natalia Garzón [email protected] some of the most common ethical SOUTH PACIFIC DIVISION mistakes of leadership. Locked Bag 2014, Wahroonga, N.S.W. 2076, 32 PERSPECTIVE AUSTRALIA by Lowell C. Cooper Being thankful, even when Carol Tasker [email protected] things go terribly wrong Nick Kross [email protected] Where do humans by Sandra Janet Birungi SOUTHERN AFRICA-INDIAN OCEAN come from? DIVISION 16 33 BOOKS P. O. Box 4583 Rietvalleirand 0174, The creationist understanding He spoke and it was: SOUTH AFRICA of Scripture, where humans are Mozecie Kadyakaita [email protected] Divine creation in the Old Busi Khumalo [email protected] the product of a divine act of Testament special creation, conflicts with the Reviewed by Phodidas SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION Ndamyumugabe P. O. Box 2, HCF Hosur, 635 110 Tamil Nadu, evolutionary hypothesis of descent INDIA with modification from ancestral R. N. Prabhu Das [email protected] 35 FYI Mohan Bhatti [email protected] primates. This article reviews Global PCM Weekend 2016: SOUTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC DIVISION and discusses the fossil evidence Empathize. Engage. P.O. Box 040, 4118 Silang, Cavite, PHILIPPINES relating to human origins. Empower. Lawrence Domingo [email protected] by Ronny Nalin October 14-16, 2016 Jobbie Yabut [email protected] by Jiwan S. Moon TRANS-EUROPEAN DIVISION 119 St. Peter’s St., St. Albans, Herts, AL13EY, Caring for the environment: ENGLAND God’s business and ours Daniel Duda [email protected] 19 Janos Kovacs-Biro [email protected] God envisions an ecological future. WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA DIVISION It is a future, however, that depends 22 Boîte Postale 1764, Abidjan 22, on our stewardship. IVORY COAST Juvenal Balisasa [email protected] by John Wesley Taylor V N. John Enang [email protected] 2 COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY DIALOGUE 28.1 YEAR 2016 EDITORIAL This international journal of faith, thought, and action is published two to three times a year in five parallel editions (English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) by the WILL YOU HAVE Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS) of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Volume 28, Number 1 FRIENDS IN HEAVEN? Copyright © 2016 by the AMiCUS Committee. All rights reserved. Dialogue affirms the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and supports its mission. The views published in he question is posed through the story of the dishonest man- this journal, however, are the independent ager (Luke 16:1–10), who was appointed as a steward by a thoughts of the authors. Editorial Board rich man to care for his extensive property. When the rich Editor-in-Chief Lisa M. Beardsley-Hardy man suspected that his steward was not altogether honest, the Editors John M. Fowler, Hudson E. Kibuuka Managing Editors Valérie Moorooven steward began taking self-protective steps and downsized the Susan Araya indebtedness of others to buy future security and good will. The money T Copy Editors he was writing off was not his own, but he wagered that the good will he Beverly Rumble (English) Book Review Editor Aleksandar Santrac gained from his master’s creditors would safeguard his future. For per- Designer Claudia Suzana R. Lima sonal gain, he secretly and systematically transferred cash equivalents to Editorial Correspondence his own invisible account. Dialogue The dishonest steward thereby gained “new” friends. But how long, do 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600 USA you think, these “friends” welcomed him into their homes after he lost his Telephone 301-680-5073/5065 position? Even if it was for years, the benefits of such friendships do not Fax 301-622-9627 E-mail [email protected] carry over into eternity. They are for this life alone. (English and French) The previous chapter in Luke records that the prodigal son also had [email protected] (Spanish and Portuguese) friends. They were friends as long as he had what they wanted. But once AMiCUS Committee his money was gone, the “friends” disappeared. They were not real friends Chair Thomas L. Lemon to him any more than he had been to them. In the end, he was left hungry Vice-chairs Abner de los Santos, Geoffrey G. Mbwana, Ella S. Simmons and alone, except for the company of pigs. Friends of prodigal sons and Secretary Mario E. Ceballos dishonest managers don’t last. Associate Secretaries Lisa M. Beardsley- Hardy, Gilbert R. Cangy Against this backdrop Jesus makes a forceful statement: “‘I tell you, use Assistant Secretary Jiwan S. Moon worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you Legal Advisor Thomas E. Wetmore Members Ganoune A. Diop, Falvo Fowler, will be welcomed into eternal dwellings’” (Luke 16:9, NIV).* What does Hudson E. Kibuuka, Linda Mei Lin Koh, Peter He mean by this? To be sure, He is not saying that heavenly dwellings can N. Landless, Faith-Ann A. McGarrell, Anthony Kent, Anthony Bowman, Tracy Wood, Lydia be obtained through earthly crafty dealings: Salvation is for neither sale nor Muwanga, Valérie Moorooven, Justin Kim, craft. Heaven is a free gift. But Jesus has chosen to entrust His goods to you Susan Araya, Clinton L. Wahlen, Gabriel Begle and me. Wealth entrusted must be used in responsible ways; any dishonest Circulation Inquiries should be addressed to the regional representative located in the use may lead to the making of temporary friends, but neither their homes area where the reader resides. See names nor their hearts will have any permanent welcome for you. Jesus insists on and addresses on page 2. us managing the things of this world with eternity in view. Website http://dialogue.adventist.org The parable reminds us to wear our assets lightly—whether it is money, Scriptures quotations credited to NIV are from The position, or power―because nothing on earth will last forever. The things Holy Bible, New International Version, Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by we have—bank account, commodities, education, technology, or leader- permission. 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Knowing that our money will eventually run out should 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 direct our attention away from money, or any of the other things we have by the Lockman Foundation. Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from The here, to wealth of a kind that is eternal and enduring. Holy Bible, New Living Translation, Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., To such who have eternity in perspective in , all that they have and do is Wheaton, Illinois 60189.
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