Genesis 6:14 “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” The Ark was made of wood, so it had to be waterproofed. The most suitable type of waterproofing would be a hydrophobic...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 10:11 “Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.” One of the fundamental lessons we learn from Scripture is that there is only one...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11-12 “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. And the rain was upon the e...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Many people are aware that evolutio...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:8 “So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.” Many people today tend to dismiss the early chapters of Genesis as legend rather than history. However, if the Bible’...
Continue ReadingGenesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impr...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this atti...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth…” The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:20 “And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.” It is almost like a religious catechism to state that apes and humans share a common ...
Continue ReadingJonah 1:17 “Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” Most people are familiar with the story of Jonah and the whale. However, by calling it a story, some people wa...
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