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- Genesis 1:31 ● Gen 1:31 . . And God saw all that He had made, and found it very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Some feel that the cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --was created incomplete, not quite up to snuff: that it was to Man that...

- Spiritual Body vs Spirit Body ● 1 Cor 15:44 . . It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Watch as I revise that passage because the difference is significant. "It is sown a natural body, it is raised up a spirit...

- Genesis 1:28-30 ● Gen 1:28a . . God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and increase, Some interpret that verse to be an edict requiring married people to have children; and that they have no business getting married for any other reason. But the wording is so obviously a blessing...

- Jephthah's Daughter ● Judg 11:30-32 . . And Jephthah made a vow to Yhvh and said: If you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the Lord's, and I...

- Continuing from Post #13 Genesis 1:26-27 ● Gen 1:26a . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. The introduction of the plural personal pronouns "us" and "our" into the narrative at this point has given rise to some interesting speculation regarding the identities...

- Perhaps you could start a thread for your thoughts about the last Adam, whom is spirit rather than mimic the behavior of a female Cowbird. /

- I once heard tell of an autistic boy who said to his dad that airplanes fly so high because he isn't afraid of heights. You see in his mind, air traffic control is designed to accommodate his personal feelings about altitude. Point being: when certain personality types have been on an...

- "Comments" are oftentimes alternate interpretations of Genesis that attempt to debunk my own. I try to encourage the authors of such comments to please exit and start up a thread of their own instead of hijacking mine. Like they say; too many cooks spoil the broth, especially when one of the...

- Genesis 1:22-25 ● Gen 1:22a . . God blessed them, saying: Be fertile The blessing of fertility is pretty amazing. It not only enables creatures to reproduce their own bodies, but also to transfer the breath of life from one generation to the next. ● Gen 1:22b . . and increase, fill the...

- Sons And Bums ● Deut 21:18-21 . . If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the...

- Genesis 1;20-21 ● Gen 1:20-21a . . And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth...

- Interpretation "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." The KJV's obsolete language is misleading. Here's that same passage in updated language. ● 2Pet 1:20-21 . . Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the...

- Genesis 1:15-19 ● Gen 1:15-18a . . and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the Earth. And it was so. God made the two great lights, the greater light to dominate the day and the lesser light to dominate the night, and the stars. . . . And God set them in the...

- Inspiration ● 2Tim 3:16 . . All Scripture is inspired by God The Greek word for "inspired" is theopneustos (theh-op'-nyoo-stos) which is a combination of theo which means God, and pneustos which means to inflate: as in blowing up a balloon or a soccer ball and/or filling a boat's sails with...

- Genesis 1:14 ● Gen 1:14a . . God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky On the fourth day, God spent time up in celestial regions. It might seem odd that He began work on the surface of the Earth, and then before finishing, stopped short and moved off into space. Why not finish...

- Christ's Recovery There lacks a universal consensus regarding the nature of Christ's resurrection. Some say his crucified body came back to life. Some say that his crucified body was exchanged for a glorified body. Still others say that Christ's crucified body not only didn't recover, but he...

- Christ was able to give a man eyesight blind from birth. He was able to repair withered arms and paralyzed legs in a moment of time right on site. He was able to turn water into wine. He was able to restore dead people to life. He was able to treat chronic bleeding. He could multiply bread and...

- Christ's Demise The Koran's Christ didn't pass away on the cross. "And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein...

- Genesis 1:11-13 ● Gen 1:11a . . Then God said: Let the land produce vegetation This is the very first mention of life on earth; and what's interesting about it is that life on earth wasn't created from nothing, rather, by means of ingredients taken from the earth itself; e.g. aqua life and...

- The God Begotten Of God Q: One translation of John 1:18 speaks of the only begotten god; while another translation of John 1:18 speaks of the only begotten son. Which translation is correct? A: Either one will do because, biologically speaking, they're both saying the very same thing. God...