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- Genesis 1:6-10 ● Gen 1:6-8 . . And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And...

- The Rich Man, Lazarus, And Abraham Fiction can be defined as stories about people, places, and events that, though untrue; are plausible; viz: realistic. Fantasy can be defined as stories about people, places, and events that are not only untrue; but implausible; viz: unrealistic. For...

- Genesis 1:4b-5 ● Gen 1:4b-5a . . and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. Day and Night simply label two distinct physical conditions-- the absence of light, and/or the absence of darkness. Labeling those physical conditions...

- Knowing Your Religion is Right "Faith is believin' what you know ain't so." Mark Twain Every so often I get asked how I know that my beliefs are true. My answer is: I don't know if they're true. Then of course they follow up with: Then why do you believe your beliefs are true when you have...

- Genesis 1:2-4a ● Gen 1:2a . . the earth being unformed and void That statement reveals the earth's condition prior to the creation of an energy that would make it possible for its particles to coalesce into something coherent. ● Gen 1:2b . . and darkness was over the surface of the deep...

- Ways To Describe Grace ● 1Cor 1:3 . . Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. I seriously doubt that John Q and Jane Doe pew warmer have an adequate concept of grace. I suspect that most are under the impression that grace is somehow a quantifiable substance...

- Genesis 1:1 The author of Genesis is currently unknown; but commonly attributed to Moses. Seeing as he penned Exodus (Mark 12:26) it's conceivable that Moses also penned Genesis; but in reality, nobody really knows. Scholars have estimated the date of its writing at around 1450-1410 BC...

- Hello; and welcome to the very first book of the Bible. I'm attempting a systematic, home-spun commentary practically verse by verse from the creation of the cosmos to Joseph's burial in Egypt. As of today's date, I'm 73 years old; and an on-going student of the Bible since 1968 via...

- Hell vs Common Sense I watched an educational series on NetFlix in September of 2014 called "The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries" hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson Ph.D. director of the Hayden Planetarium. Mr. Tyson said, in so many words; that in the study of Physics, one must...

- Jonah ● Matt 12:39-40 . . As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The Lord paralleled his journey with Jonah's. Well, seeing as how Christ was dead for most of the time that he was...

- How Christ Became Solomon's Progeny Q: Seeing as how Christ was virgin conceived; how did he get into Joseph's genealogy as per the first chapter of Matthew? A: At Gen 48:5-7, Jacob adopted his own two biological grandsons Manasseh and Ephraim; thus installing them in positions equal in...

- Jesus Christ And The Original Sin Some folk posit that Mary was, in some manner, a sort of surrogate mother, i.e. Jesus' embryo was an implant. Others sincerely believe that Mary's baby was an alternate species of human life totally unrelated to her own, i.e. another Adam, so to speak; basing...

- How Christ Is Related To Adam I was taught in catechism that seeing as how Jesus Christ's mother was a virgin when he was conceived, then he didn't have a human father. Well; that all depends on how we go about defining "father". According to the book of Genesis; God created Adam's flesh...

- When People Obtain Eternal Life In the passages below, note the grammatical tense of the "have" verbs. They're in the present tense; not future, indicating that believers have eternal life right now-- no delay, and no waiting period. ● John 3:36 . . He who believes in the Son has eternal...

- The Brazen Serpent ● John 3:14-17 . . As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish...

- Eternal Life Eternal life is often mistaken for immortality. The two are not the same. Immortality is a material kind of life that has to do with a superhuman body impervious to age, death, and putrefaction. Eternal life, on the other hand, isn't a material kind of life; it's a spirit kind...

- The Sin Nature I have yet to encounter the term "sin nature" in the New Testament. I suspect somebody coined it as a substitute for the flesh that Paul often spoke of in his letters. ● Rom 8:8 . .They that are in the flesh cannot please God. The koiné Greek word for flesh is sarx (sarx)...

- Who/What The Schoolmaster Is ● Gal 3:24 . .The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that w might be acquitted by faith. The koiné Greek word for "schoolmaster" is paidagogos (pahee-dag-o-gos') which defines not a headmaster, nor a teacher, nor a tutor. It essentially defines a...

- The Meaning Of "Under The Law" ● Rom 6:14 . . Sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace. The apostle Paul was a well-trained Jew (Acts 22:3, Php 3:5). He and his fellow Pharisees generally understood the law as that of Moses', a.k.a. the covenant...

- David's Little Boy Long story short: David breached the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy by committing the capital crimes of premeditated murder and adultery (2Sam 11:1-2Sam 12:23). As bad as those two breaches are; what...