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During a drought in 1847 BC, the century many believed Joseph lived as Pharaoh’s man in charge of grain reserves during a seven-year drought, five nomads showed up starving at an Egyptian fort. “The desert is dying of hunger,” they …
If there’s a sin gene – physical or spiritual – Paul ID’s the cure: “Who will save me from this sin that brings death to my body? I give thanks to God. He will do it through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 7:24-25 NIRV). A Visual Walk Through Genesis, …
Cherubim were combo creatures, as Ezekiel described them in his poetic prophecies: wings with four heads each (ox, human, lion, eagle). Scholars compare them to winged bulls that Assyrians crafted as statues to guard their palace gateways. A Visual …
Geneticists call her Mitocondrial Eve, the mother of humanity who lived 200,000 years ago. They say DNA studies trace humans back in time to a woman who probably lived in East Africa, south of Egypt. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 40.
Death came into the world after a talking snake convinced Eve to eat forbidden fruit. In a story from Iraq that is older than Moses, a snake robbed the hero, Gilgamesh, of immortality by doing the opposite. The snake ate the life-giving plant. A …
The Genesis writer never ID’d the devil as the talking snake that suckered Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. It took the last book in the Bible to make that leaping link. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 39.
The Bible says God made a woman from “one of the man’s ribs” (Genesis 2:21 NLT). Adam. Some Bible commentators read more poetry than science into this story. Matthew Henry (1662-1714): Eve wasn’t made out of Adam’s… head, to top him feet, to get …
“The tree that gives you wisdom to know right from wrong” (Genesis 2:17 CEBT) was lethal. If you eat its fruit, “you”re dead” (Genesis 2:17 CEBT). The Bible doesn’t say what the fruit was or what kind of toxin it carried: …
“A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers” (Genesis 2:10). That’s the clue to finding Eden, some say. The four rivers that branch off of Eden’s river are the Tigris and Euphrates along with two others lost …
It’s not clear in the original Hebrew language of Genesis if the garden was all of Eden, “in Eden” (Genesis 2:8 NIRV) or beside Eden: “A river flows out of Eden to water the garden” (Genesis 2:10 NRSV). A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 29.
It sounds a little like God doing CPR: “God… Breathed the breath of life into man’s nostrils” (Genesis 2:7 ). In a vision, the prophet Ezekiel did something similar. He stood in a valley littered with skeletons, when God told him: “Breathe into these …
Adam wasn’t the only human created from the ground, according to another ancient Middle Eastern story: Epic of Gilgamesh. In this story from what is now Iraq in the 1700s BC the earth goddess Aruru made a man named Enkidu from clay. Wild animals …
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