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?” There is a theory that Genesis and the other books of the Penteteuch were actually compiled lon...
Continue ReadingJohn 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 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” There are some arguments common in certain creationist circles which creationists should not use. Some people seem to worry when I...
Continue ReadingPsalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” When the Bible talks about oil, it means olive oil, but when we talk about oil today, we think of eng...
Continue ReadingPsalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” If I have commented on problems with the Big Bang Theory, I have sometimes been told that we have witnessed stars being born. Deep-time astrophysicists often p...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 13:22 “And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.” In the epic Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, the hero, at one poi...
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 7:2-3 “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the fa...
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