Biblical geology - Dr. Bernard Northrup

Dr. Bernard Northrup, 1925-2008, was a scholar of the Old Testament and Semitic languages with a ThD from Dallas Theological Seminary. He was on the faculties of Dallas Bible College (1953–1959), San Francisco Baptist Theological Seminary (1959–1972), Baptist Bible Seminary (1972–1978), Central Baptist Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1978–1985), and Shasta Bible College (1985–2005). In addition to teaching, Dr. Northrup also advised Bible translators working with Bibles International and Baptist Mid-Missions, checking work done by pastors in 17 tribal languages in India, the Philippines, and Africa.1

He said of himself in 2001, "I am a Christian Hebraist [Hebrew language scholar] who has studied the Tanakh [entire Hebrew Bible - Law, Prophets, and Writings] for nearly fifty years. I have taught it in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and English languages to many young men who were preparing to serve the Eternal."1  His personal interests included Biblical creationism and geology; he wrote extensively on these subjects, the Old Testament, and living as a Christian.

For many years he tried to persuade Young Earth Creationists that the Flood of Noah was only one of five global catastrophes in Earth's past, and that mistranslations of certain words in Genesis had led to misunderstanding events in that book. His insights into the first chapter of Genesis have been used to support Young Biosphere Creation (YBC) theory, and his translation of Genesis 10:25 has been used to support Shock Dynamics geology theory.

= Links to his writings on geology, creationism, and the Bible =

Articles on Geology
The five Biblical catastrophies in Genesis - Overview

Biblical Catastrophe Harmonization Model - Chart

The Genesis of Geology

Genesis 10:25 and the Days of Peleg

Guidelines for Understanding the Witness in the Record of the Rocks

124 Correlations of the Geologic Column with the Bible

Mountains, Meteorites, and Plate Tectonics

Volcanism and its Contribution to Biblical/Geologic History

The Grand Canyon and Biblical Catastrophies

Taphonomy: A Tool for Studying Earth's Biblical History

Indentifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology Part 1

Indentifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology Part 2

Book Review of Franciscan Assemblage and Related Rocks

The Sisquoc Diatomite Fossil Beds

Pitfalls of Modern Geochronology

Articles on Creationism
Factors Causing Problems in Bible Interpretation

Some Questionable Creationist Axioms Reexamined

Creation Contradictions?

The Rocks and Shoals of Creation Studies in Prediluvian Research

The Death of Dinosaurs

Walk through Time: A Study in Harmonization

On Finding an Ice Age Book

Eccentricities Observed in Bouw's "Geocentricity"

There Really was an Ice Age

Other writings
Finding Eternal Life

True Evangelism

The Life I now Live in the Flesh

Messiah in the Psalms

The Just shall Live by Faith

Sin Nature and Victory

Victory Way to Maturity over the Sin Nature

Recognizing Messiah in the Psalms

The Redeemer in Sheol-Psalm 40

The Promise of the Rapture

My Heart's Thanksgiving

Difficult Texts in Peter and Paul

Micah and the Long, Sad Days before Israel's Latter Days

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General Association of Regular Baptist Churches