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SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY HUMAN GENETICS say all humans today likely descended from one woman they call Mitochondrial Eve. “Mitochondrial” refers to a type of DNA that’s passed on from mother to child with genes that rarely change. Geneticists estimate …
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 …
IT’S SURPRISING TO ME how much doggone good editorial help I’m getting from some of my readers. They’re editing me. They’re editing my Bible paraphrase, the Casual English Bible. And they’re making me look good and the Bible read better. I asked for …
WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, I often turn to the book of Job because he tends to ask God the tough questions we’re thinking. He doesn’t always do it with courtesy and a gentle touch. Why should he? He has just lost all of his children in a windstorm, all of …
“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: …
CASUAL ENGLISH BIBLE website is up and running today. First thing: this is a beta edition. It is barely proofread, and not at all edited for consistency in style, spelling, or clever phrases that don’t work. So there will be revisions along the way. …
WE LAUNCH THE WEBSITE this week, Lord willing. It’s the Casual English Bible – a beta edition of the Bible books of Genesis and Luke, with Acts to come. I paraphrased Genesis while I wrote A Visual Walk Through Genesis, a book that releases on July …
“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 …
NEW TERRITORY FOR ME. It’s one big step past writing a book. Coming out in a few weeks is A Visual Walk Through Genesis. That’s a book. Coming out sooner, I hope, is a website loaded with resources that I think will be helpful to people interested in …
“THE HARDEST PART OF BEING A CHRISTIAN.” That’s the title of the three-week series we’re talking about in my Sunday morning Bible study group. I taught the lesson last week: “We get a bad press.” I had to change the focus at the last moment because …
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.
I’M NOT SURE WHICH IS HARDER TO TAKE. Valid criticism from a jerk. Unfair criticism from a non-Christian. I don’t like either. I want to blow raspberries at both. But I need to be kind and loving. Especially to the non-Christian. Too …
