and the believer is left simply to bask in their insolubility. In fact, the greater the mystery, the better it is not to solve it. And the more absurd the verse, the more of a virtue it is to believe it (this is covered in great detail by Richard Dawkins inViruses of the Mind)....
In chapter 12, Abram acted like a coward when he came into Egypt and didn’t protect his wife. He thought of himself in earlier times. In this account, it appears things had changed. Abe grew. He stood up because he possessed something the world around him did not have: He grasped th...
Verse 25.-And he(i.e. Isaac, in grateful response to the Divine Promiser who had appeared to him)builded an altar there, - the first instance of altar building ascribed to Isaac; "those erected by his father no doubt still remaining in the other places where he sojourned" (Inglis)and...
Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters... Read verse in New International Version
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionSo God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.New Living ...
Chapter 17 - Covenant of Circumcision. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my
because, as Laban, who spoke first, as being the elder, explained, the heap was to be a "witness between him and Jacob." The historian then adds this explanation: "therefore they called his name Gal'ed," and immediately afterwards introduces a second name, which the heap received from wo...
into the first chapter of Genesis? * @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama Compromising Theories (cont’d) Dr. Duane Gish: “The concept of a frog being turned into a prince in an instant is a fairy tale, but the assertion that a frog, given 300 million years, can turn ...
Hoping to pique the interest of their first producer Jonathan King, Gabriel and Banks whipped together this generic baroque-pop ballad, a flop of a single which Banks later described inChapter & Verseas "a pastiche of aBee Geessong." For whatever reason, a lot of people seem to like "The...
Notice, in Chapter 15, that it was only as Israel came through the Sea that they began to sing. The first thing they did when they walked through on the other side was to break into song. There had been no songs in Egypt. That was a place of bond- age, of heartache, of misery,...