John 1:29“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” One of my favorite classical composers is Ludwig van Beethoven. While Bach wrote theological notes in the marg...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:15“And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their...
Continue Reading2 Peter 2:5 “And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;” In 2 Peter 2:5, the apostle remarks, almost parenthetically, that “[God] did not ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:7-8 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.” It o...
Continue ReadingPsalms 95:4 “In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.” The devastating blast from the eruption of Mount St Helens, on May 18, 1980, tore down huge, mature trees. Old growth forest was flattened north of the ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 4:20-22 “And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an in...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:19-20 “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.” “You can’t possibly believ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The world’s most infamous hockey stick was probably the graph produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:8-9 “So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD di...
Continue ReadingPsalms 104:8 “They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.” “There can’t possibly have been a worldwide Flood. Where would all the water have gone after the Flood?” This is a c...
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