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- Who/What The Firstborn Is ● Col 1:15 . . He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Christ wasn't even the one born first in the human family let alone the entire creation so what gives here? Well; firstborn is just as much a rank as it is a birth order; and though...

- Leaven ● Gen 19:3 . . Lot prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. The Hebrew word for "unleavened" is matstsah (mats-tsaw') which essentially refers to an unfermented cake or loaf; in other words: bread made with sweet dough rather than sour dough. In this day...

- Abraham And Ex Post Facto ● Deut 29:13-14 . . Not only with you am I making this covenant and this oath, but with those standing here with us today before the Lord, our God, and [also] with those who are not here with us, this day. It's sincerely believed by some that the statement above...

- Abraham And Hagar ● Gen 21:10-12 . . Sarah said to Abraham: Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac. The common laws of Abraham's day (e.g. the Code of Hammurabi and the laws of Lipit-Ishtar) entitled Ishmael to...

- Eating Meat ● Gen 9:1-4 . . Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them: Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon...

- The Fate Of Noah's Ark ● Gen 8:3b . . At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters diminished, so that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The precise topographic location, where the ark went aground, was not...

- How The Critters Got To Noah ● Gen 6:3a . . And Yhvh said: My Spirit shall not strive with man forever. Yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. Some feel that God set the limits of human longevity in that verse. But people still continued to live long lives for a great number of...

- From Whence Cain Got A Wife Adam was created directly from the dust of the earth. Not so Eve. She was constructed from a human tissue sample amputated from Adam's body. In other words: Eve's flesh was biologically just as much Adam's flesh as Adam's except for gender; viz: Eve wasn't a...

- Why God Didn't Execute Cain For Murder ● Gen 4:12-13 . . If you till the soil, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall become a ceaseless wanderer on earth. Cain said to the Lord: My punishment is too great to bear! Cain's punishment was relatively lenient. In point of fact...

- Why Cain Was Rejected ● Gen 4:2b . . Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the soil. Both men worked at honorable professions and their skills were essential to the Adams' survival. Humans at this time were vegetarians so Cain farmed and raised the family's food; while...

- Why Everyone Has To Die At Least Once Prior to Moses, an official code of divine law didn't exist. ● Rom 5:13-14 . . Before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses...

- Why Adam Didn't Drop Dead ● Gen 2:15-17 . .The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of...

- Leaven ● Gen 19:3 . . Lot prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. The Hebrew word for "unleavened" is matstsah (mats-tsaw') which essentially refers to an unfermented cake or loaf; in other words: bread made with sweet dough rather than sour dough. In this day...

- Big Daddy The Phylogenetic Tree Of Life is an interesting scientific diagram that traces all forms of life back to a singular genetic heritage regardless of species. In other words; if you started with a raccoon, and followed it's branch down the tree far enough, you'd eventually intersect...

- The Image And Likeness Of God ● Gen 1:26a . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. Because of the terms "image and likeness" there are some who believe that man's creator is a human being; or at least resembles one. But according to Christ, creation's God is non...

- Day And Night ● Gen 1:4b-5a . . 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, and opposite, conditions-- the absence of light, and/or the absence of darkness. Defining those conditions may seem...

- To Infinity And Beyond ● Gen 1:14-18 . . God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish Day from Night; they shall serve as signs for the set times-- the days and the years; and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth. . . . And...

- The Length Of A Creation Day ● Gen 1:5b . . And there was evening and there was morning, a first Day. According to Gen 1:24-31, God created humans and all land animals on the sixth day; which has to include dinosaurs because on no other day did God create land animals but the sixth...

- Light ● Gen 1:3 . . God said: Let there be light: and there was light. The creation of light was an intricate process. First God had to create particulate matter, and along with those particles their specific properties, including mass. Then He had to invent the laws of nature to govern how...

- The Everlasting Gospel This particular gospel is a bounce from the first chapter of Genesis. ● Rev 14:6-7 . . And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the everlasting gospel to preach to the people who dwell on the earth-- to every nation, tribe, language, and people. . . ...