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PARDON ME for feeding you so many maps lately. But that’s what I’m working on at the moment: maps for all 50 chapters of Genesis, in the Casual English Bible. I spent yesterday creating this view of the Jordan River Valley because I was …
I’M NOT SURE MOST FOLKS KNOW that Abraham, father of the Jewish race of people, was an Iraqi. At least according to today’s map. He grew up in Ur, a city in what is now southern Iraq. Afterward, he moved with his dad, Terah, to Haran, a …
Rebekah agreed to leave her home in what is now Turkey on one day’s notice and move 500 miles (800 km) south to marry a 40-year-old bachelor she had never met: Isaac. It was love at first sight, for Isaac. No word about Rebekah’s thought. A Visual …
Most Bible experts say that Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac was a foreshadowing of Jesus’s sacrifice. What Abraham was willing to do with his son, God the Father actually did with his son. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 98-99.
When God called Abraham to leave his home in what is now Turkey and go to what is now Israel to start a new nation, Abraham was 75 years old and childless. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 71. Casual English Bible Bible Gateway
When a coalition of three armies invaded the Jordan River Valley and captured Lot and his family, Abraham formed a militia of 318 men that chased down the invaders and defeated them in a surprise attack, freeing the captives. A Visual Walk Through …
IS IT MUTILATION and painful as all get out? That’s pretty much the Bible Question of the Week. It’s similar to a question I dealt with in March: “Ouch. Why did God order circumcision?” Here’s a shortened version of the question, from Pam Lane. She …
WATCHING A COMEDY—The Big Bang Theory—I think I may have come up with the answer to this Bible Question of the Week. I got the question from LaVerne Tilson, a lady who has been on the planet long enough to deserve an honest answer to whatever …
WHEN GOD MADE A DEAL with Abraham—some call it a contract or a covenant— he didn’t ask Abraham to sign on the dotted line. He asked him to cut on the dotted line. And that leads to the Bible question of the week, coming from Robert Lee, who wins a …
