John 5:46-47 “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” Numerous passages in the New Testament state that Genesis was written by Moses. But how could M...
Continue ReadingChronicles 1:1-4 “Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. “ First Chronicles starts in a most unusual way by simply listing the generations of people from the time of Adam onwards. What c...
Continue ReadingExodus 27:20 “And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always”. While compiling a chemistry textbook on the subject of oil, I thought it would be instructive for...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Rumblings and small eruptions...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:9 “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” In his 1858 book, La Création et sesmystèresdévoilés (The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled), geologist...
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.” How ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 144:5 “Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.” Everybody knows two “facts” about volcanoes. First, they are large cone-shaped mountains, and second, they send streams of lava flowing across the cou...
Continue Reading2 Peter 3:5-6 “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” At the peak of ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 3:2-3 “And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” I...
Continue Reading1Timothy 2:13-14 “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” It would appear that Eve’s reasoning for taking the fruit was as follows: The tree was good for food. Her in...
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