2 Samuel 8:14a “And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants.” There is a school of biblical interpretation that does not consider the Bible divinely inspired. For exa...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” We are often asked why, if the Bible’s account of creation is tr...
Continue ReadingPsalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” A recent article on a popular science website featured the Andromeda Galaxy – a neighboring galaxy to our own Milky Way, and a source of fascination to me si...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 1:9 “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” It is unfortunate that we so often have the sense that nothing technologically important has happened in human his...
Continue ReadingGenesis 3:20 “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” A report on a popular science website began with these words: “Two hundred thousand years ago, the earliest shared ancestors of every living huma...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:1 “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” After suffering a stroke, a man in Baltimore suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent. Though he had no experience with languages other than English, he suddenly soun...
Continue ReadingColossians 4:6 “Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” How much salt should there be in the ocean? We know how much salt rivers carry into the sea each year. And we know how much ...
Continue Reading1 Samuel 11:1 “Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.” Over the last couple of centuries, many Bible scholars have devel...
Continue ReadingJob 9:9-10 “Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.” The entire universe and all its forces were planned and created out of the mind...
Continue ReadingExodus 20:11a “For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day:” Contrary to what the theory of evolution says, the history of life found in the fossil record does not show simpl...
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