Genesis 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...
Continue ReadingMatthew 12:39 “But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.” Jesus talked about “the sign of Jonah” when He was being...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:9 “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” “Ancient stone-tool makers spread into l...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upo...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:4 “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, ...
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