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. †. Gen 2:18 . .Yhvh God said: It's not good for Adam to be solitary; I will make a fitting helper for him. "a fitting helper" is from two Hebrew words. "Fitting" is from neged (neh'-ghed) which means: a front, i.e. part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate. The word for "helper" is...

. The ban on the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, was tempered by a carte blanche to eat fruits from all the rest of the trees; including the tree of life. So it's not like God pigeonholed Adam and forced him to eat from the wrong tree in order to survive. Earlier, in Gen 1:29, God gave...

. †. Gen 2:10b-11 . . and it then divides and becomes four branches. he name of the first is Pishon, the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah where there is gold, The Pishon river has yet to be positively identified. The Hebrew word for "Havilah" is Chaviylah (khav-ee-law') which...

- †. Gen 2:8a . .Yhvh God planted a garden in Eden, The remainder of Earth's flora was planted in a large scale, landscaping manner. But the garden was specially prepared for Man like someone might build a home for their family. It's true that Man is a creature and Yhvh isn't his actual...

- †. Gen 2:6 . . a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. The word "mist" is from 'ed (ade). It's a very rare word and appears only one more time in the whole Bible in the book of Job. "See, God is greater than we can know; the number of His years cannot be...

- †. Gen 2:1-3 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from...

- †. Gen 1:29-30 . . God said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed- bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food. And to all the animals on land, to all the winged creatures of the sky, and to everything that creeps on earth, in which...

- †. Gen 1:27a . . So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; If humans were paternal sons of the Most High-- viz: if people were His biological offspring --they'd be eternal beings like Himself because God is an eternal being; i.e. like begets like. But humans...

- †. Gen 1:26 . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. The Hebrew word for "man" is 'adam (aw-dawm') which means: ruddy. It's a very common label in the Bible for human beings. Webster's defines "ruddy" as having a healthy reddish color. But in this case ruddy is a...

. When I was a little boy, my dad bet me that he could make a dollar bill stand on edge. Well, I passed on the bet because I didn't own any money at the time. So my dad proceeded to fold a dollar bill in half into a vee and it easily stood on edge like that. When I protested, he replied: You...

- †. Gen 1:22b . . 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 1:22c . . and increase, fill the waters in the seas...

- †. Gen 1:20 . . God said: Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and birds that fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. The Hebrew word for "birds" is 'owph (ofe) which just simply means covered with wings rather than covered with feathers. It's a rather unusual...

- †. Gen 1:14c . . they shall serve as signs for the set times-- the days and the years; The word for "signs" is from 'owth (oth) and means: a signal; such as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc. The Sun and the Moon are very useful time keepers. The Sun of course marks...

- †. Gen 1:11a . . And God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation Before God could set out plantings; He first had to create soil for them to grow in; which is only barely alluded to in Genesis' reference to dry land making its appearance: and this is where young-earth theories run into trouble...

- †. Gen 1:6a . . God said: Let there be an expanse The word for "expanse" is from raqiya' (raw-kee'-ah) and means: a great extent of something spread out, a firmament, the visible arch of the sky. Raqiya' is distinct from shamyim in that it indicates the earth's atmosphere; which is sort of...

- †. Gen 1:4a . . And God saw the light, that it was good God declared that light is good; but He didn't declare that darkness is good. In point of fact, darkness always represents bad things in the Bible; while light always represents good things. It's been an axiom from the very beginning...