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Last bump...I'm about to upload Gen 3 Q&A.

I address this more in the Gen 2-3 Q&A. Animals were created for us. Their death carries less of the moral significance of ours. Romans speaks of human death and redemption; it requires an inference unsupported by any other details of the context to think he also meant animal death too. How...

I’m surprised there’s no feedback here considering all the lovely discussion on Gen 1!

Any feedback here?

I've posted the next Q&A, on Gen. 2.

Here is a list of all the gnostic/occult elements of your original comment: It is well-known that the east, not the west, is the symbol of corruption in the Bible. Claiming the opposite represents an inversion. Dualism, as in an eternal fight between good and evil, which are both creative...

What is the significance of the fact that Eve was created out of Adam’s own flesh? She was not, first of all, made anew. As a child comes from his parents, so Eve was not a new creation. In this way, as with “helper” (Gen. 2:18), the text signals that Eve was dependent upon and subordinate to...

What is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, first introduced in Gen. 2:9, and why is eating of it forbidden, even deadly (2:17)? This is a profound and important question. One might go on.—Why is it not called the Tree of Death, since it is so closely contrasted with the Tree of Life...

What is significant about how Adam was made in Gen. 2:6? It was from the same matter as the soil, soil that was recently mentioned to be watered by a mist, that Adam was made. This, however much the process might differ from evolution, is correct as to the components of Adam’s body, since our...

<< Back to Genesis 1 | On to Genesis 3 >> This is another installment in my Q&A Bible study, which ends up resembling a commentary. I don't pretend this to be a definitive commentary but instead non-authoritative study notes by a humble student of the Bible. Read more about what I am up to if...

I believe you have this reversed. Repeatedly in the Bible, the east represents a place of corruption: Adam went "east of Eden"; Cain was driven further east; humanity traveled to the plain of Shinar, to the east, to build the city and tower of Babel; Lot chose the east path, toward Sodom...

Better discussed later in ch 4 and esp. ch 9, after the full context has been presented and discussed.

Sophistication isn’t necessarily better; adults are said to be more sophisticated than children precisely because of their experience with the seedy underside of life. Both of these claims are not at all clear to me, but better discussed in the context of Gen 2-3, which I’ll post soon. Two...

Why not both? Yes, he had inspiration and sources, but the words were (mostly) his choosing. Unless you think his inspiration was word-for-word. See above on two senses of the word “perfect.” He might have been morally perfect, or perfectly acceptable to the Lord, but he was both fallible and...

Hey, thanks for the positive feedback. That helps. I know Young Earth creationists will have problems with this, and I actually do have objections to evolution, but I’m far from convinced it has been ruled out by those objections. As to the Big Bang, that’s the best theory on offer as far as we...

I’ll bite. What do you think I am not understanding? The Holy Ghost just is the spirit of God active in the world, right? And that’s how both the OT and the NT represent the spirit of the Lord. We are blessed to live in an age in which, due to the sacrifice of Jesus, we are all able to be...

The Holy Spirit is very active in the OT. It was the spirit of God who moved upon the waters (Gen 1:2) and is on hand for the emergence of the earth from the Flood waters (Gen 8:1; ruach). The Spirit of the wisdom of God fills the tabernacle’s craftsmen (Ex 31:3). Then there is prophecy. Think...

Here you go...don't say I didn't warn you!

That's it. Feedback? I'll post what I have for Gen 2 in a day or two (unless I'm told not to).

What does Gen 1:26 mean with the claim that man is made “in the image of God”? This doctrine is theologically deep and consequential, and is made the basis of all sorts of important concepts regarding the nature of man, theological ethics, the relationship between man and God, etc.—as well as...