I love those passages in the Bible with long lists of names! My favorite part is listening to other people trying to pronounce them out loud! These and the Levitical laws often times stop people (myself included) from our daily reading plans. We may often react like this – ‘why is this in the Bible? It is so boring. It has no application for my life today.’ If it is in the Bible, it is God’s Word though, right? So He must have a purpose for it, right? These names,...
Read MoreWhat About Plant Death?
What about plant death if there was no death before Adam and Eve sinned? Great Question! Here are a couple good answers: Did Plants Die Before Adam Sinned? See Also:...
Read MoreAre we sure a day is just 24 hours?
You can see from the following verses, God is very clear and intentional in showing that each day is simply a day – a 24-hour period of time as we know it! There are numerous qualifying words that when they are used with the word day in Scripture mean a 24-hour period of time. To try to say otherwise is likely stretching the clear meaning of the text or trying to read into the text. God wrote it for people of all cultures and ages to understand and it seems...
Read MoreAll Over the World!!!
“All over the world we find cultural legends and myths that closely resemble certain accounts in Scripture, such as the Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel accounts.” Source: Steve Ham, Is Genesis 1-11 a Derivation from Ancient Myths?, March 29, 2011, Answers in Genesis, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/03/29/derivation-from-ancient-myths, accessed September 18, 2013.
Read MoreWhere Did Cain Get His Wife?
Answer: The answer is clear from Gen 5:4 – Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters. In short, he married his sister. It may sound weird to us in our current, modern culture, but in the past, many cultures did not have the stigma that marrying within the family was bad. In fact, with Isaac and Jacob, marrying within the family was encouraged and that was only written into law later. Early on in human history, the genetics were more pure from the beginning and...
Read MoreAren’t Gen 1 and Gen 2 Conflicting Creation Accounts?
Answer: No! Genesis 1 is the Chronological Overview and Genesis 2 focuses on God’s favorite part! See more here on Page 2: http://www.discovercreation.org/documents/N2007-4.pdf
Read MoreOne Consistent and Noncontradictory Theme!
This is pretty amazing! Around 1500 years, about 40 authors, in 3 different languages – “And yet there is one consistent, noncontradictory theme that runs through it all: God’s redemption of humankind.” http://www.equip.org/articles/bible-reliability-m-a-p-s-to-guide-you-through-bible-reliability/
Read MoreMAPS: The Bible is True!
The Bible is consistent and confirmed in the following ways as denoted by the acronym – MAPS! (See Pictures Below)
Read MoreSolid Reasoning?
Here is a simple argument for the fact that we can trust the Bible. Now we simply have to support the claims. (See Picture)
Read MoreBeginning at the…Beginning!
Luke 24:27 – “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” This verse shows us a good example of how, like Jesus, we ought to start from the very beginning (Genesis) and share the gospel with people. Here is the beautiful story of the redemption of the Tugutil people in Indonesia! ...
Read MoreIs there Extraterrestrial Life elsewhere in the Universe?
There is a lot to this question, but Biblically speaking – God created Earth for Life and Life for Earth. I once heard this argument in favor of the existence of alien life: “The Bible doesn’t say that God didn’t create aliens.” But I think a better starting point is focusing on what the Bible DOES say. Genesis 1 talks about God creating the dry land on Earth, the plants on the dry ground, then the sun, moon, and stars were created, then the sea and sky creatures on...
Read MoreOpening Eyes Blinded by our Culture!
Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to teach a group of young students touring the US from France! I know hardly anything about France, but now I guess I know a little more. It was interesting to watch these students as they started off shy and unsure of what I was sharing with them. I was told at one point too, that as much as evolutionary thought has infiltrated the US, in France it has gone even farther. There is really no debate at all there, because Evolution...
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