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IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Elaine. She gets a free book for asking it. Question came up in Sunday School today: Why did God make woman from the rib of man and not from dust? OK, Elaine, this is going to come as a shock. Not all …
“I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes.” God to Noah, Genesis 6:17 EARTH BECAME WATERWORLD, as the Bible tells it. Anything that breathed got buried at sea—except those lucky enough to be …
“God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.” Genesis 2:8 A GARDEN PARADISE, Eden (EE den) was home to the first humans. Its location, “in the east,” may point toward the Persian Gulf areas of Iraq and Iran—east …
I DUG OUT of 12 inches of snow late last week. It looks like I’m going to get to do it again, early this week. Today, in fact. I’m prepared. I bought a snowblower last fall. We didn’t get any snow last year. I figured that was because my next-door …
I’M TRYING MY HAND at some easy-reading Bible commentary. Here’s a rough cut, first draft on an excerpt about the snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake that chatted up Eve. This section zeroes in on the line about God vowing perpetual …
SOME CHRISTIANS don’t take the Genesis account of Creation literally. They say it’s because it sounds like the writer is driving with a poetic license. The rhythmic flow includes repeated lines that sound like they belong in the chorus of a …
I’M CAPTIVATED d by a series of sermons that my pastor is preaching because it’s right up my alley: Wrestling with the Bible. Tomorrow, his sermon topic will be “Dinosaurs on the Ark: The Bible and Science.” He’ll be …
I’M WONDERING SOMETHING about the folks out there who believe God created the universe in six 24-hours days and then rested on the seventh day. If you’re one of them, here’s my question: Why do you believe that? I know that’s how it …
