How many children did Adam and Eve have?
04.11.18 | Articles | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament | by Ian Taylor
Scientific and historical explanation of Adam and Eve's kids.
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Was Noah's Flood global or local?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Old Testament
Read Time: 4 minutes, 50 seconds. The most detailed account of Noah's Flood is given in the Book of Genesis. Here, there seems little doubt that the Flood had to be truly global and not just "global" in the minds of one minor tribe of...
Why did Cain kill Abel?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Old Testament
God created Adam and Eve on the same day; thus, they were the same age. Following their disobedience and Fall, God cursed the serpent, placed a curse on Eve and cursed the ground for Adam's sake [Genesis 3:14-19]. While they were still in the...
Did Adam and Eve's children practice incest?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament
The Genesis account of Creation provides mankind with just the bare facts we need to know about our origin. Further facts are revealed progressively throughout Scripture. The Creation account then concludes with, "Then God saw everything that He...
Why did God curse the ground and not Adam?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament
The account of the creation of the universe, the Earth and the first human couple is confined to the first chapter of Genesis. We wish more details had been given, yet diligent reading of the rest of Scripture does reveal answers to many of those...
Is Michelangelo's painting of the Creation of Adam scripturally correct?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament
Michelangelo's fourth panel on the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling is the well-known depiction of God creating Adam. Both figures have one arm raised and forefingers almost touching. The moment is supposedly when God infused His just-created figure...
Did dinosaurs live in the Garden of Eden?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Dinosaurs | Old Testament
Dinosaurs and all the other animals – but not the great sea creatures or the birds – were created in the early morning of Friday, the sixth day of Earth's first week [Genesis 1:24-25]. The word "dinosaur" immediately brings to mind a...
Why did Adam have to name all the animals?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament
It was probably in the morning of the sixth day – that is, Friday of Earth's first week – when God created Adam. God had spent the early part of that day overseeing the creation of the cattle, the beasts and the creeping things from...
How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Adam and Eve | Old Testament
Genesis chapter one provides the account of God's creation of the heavens and the earth while, at the end of that chapter, the creation of man and woman is introduced. The second chapter is more specific about the man – now named Adam...
What is the Local Flood Theory, and how did it come about?
04.11.18 | FAQs | Evolutionary Criticism | Old Testament
For eighteen centuries after the introduction of Christianity, Christians and most non-Christians believed that there had been a great earth-destroying flood in the long distant past. The account of one man and his family having been saved from...