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Mysterious “sons of God” (one theory: fallen angels) married gorgeous human women. Their children were called Nephilim, later reported in the Bible as a race of giants who made Joshua and his fellow scouts feel “as small as grasshoppers” (Numbers …

Earth was a waterworld some 2.5 billion years ago, before life formed. That’s a theory from Australian geoscience researcher at the University of Sydney. God said, “Water beneath the sky flow into one place, so dry ground may appear” (Genesis 1:9 …

One reason some Christians say they don’t take the Creation story literally is because God created plants on Day Three, which is one day before God created the sun that produces plant food: radiation. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 20-21.

NASA’s take on how the universe began sounds a little like Genesis’ description. NASA says it began mostly as Dark Energy: “When the universe was young, it was nearly smooth and featureless.” Bible: “The earth was formless and empty, darkness was …

[clear] In the beginning, God did not create. “God started to create.” That’s how some Hebrew lingo specialists say the book of Genesis should start. Creation was a process…over a week or an eon of weeks. Christians debate which. A Visual Walk …

Jews didn’t develop a language until a few centuries after Moses. When he wrote down the laws that appear in the Bible, some scholars say he probably wrote in Egyptian since he was raised as a prince in Egypt. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 14.

No one took credit for writing Genesis. A Jewish book found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, written a century before Jesus, said “God had the Angel of His Presence tell Moses the story of Creation” (Jubilees 1:27). A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 13.

When Jesus interrupted the funeral of the widow’s son in Nain, raising him from the dead, it may have been on the same day he died. In this hot part of the world where corpses start to smell of decay within hours, folks usually buried their dead the …

Perhaps the Star of Bethlehem wasn’t just one star, but many. One popular theory says it was a lining up of Jupiter (representing “kings,” since Jupiter, aka Zeus, was the king of gods) and Saturn (representing Jews who worship on Saturn’s day, …

Bible experts say John wrote the letter of 1 John to push back against a growing group of Christians who said Jesus was a spirit being who only pretended to be human. Those Christians apparently picked up that idea from Greek philosophers who …

“The last hour is here.” John wrote that about 17 million hours ago, in 1 John 2:18. Many Bible experts say he wasn’t talking about end times, but that he was talking about Jesus. As the theory goes, God started his marathon plan of …

The word hell is an English invention to translate the idea of God’s judgment of sinners. The original Greek word in the Bible is Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south side of Jerusalem. Jews associated that valley with God’s judgment because: …