Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

Last week, we left off with Days 6 and 7 of creation. Those two days are unique from the rest of the creative events cataloged in Genesis 1 and so deserve special consideration. Day 6 includes the ...

You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things. This ordering plays an ongoing role among the Hebrew people. The ...

Genesis 1 tells the story of how God spoke the world into existence over six days. The days of creation have a structure and logic. God separates things: light from dark, sky from sea, sea from land ...

In this challenging video Ken Ham clears up some common misunderstandings about the debate over Genesis 1 and the six days of Creation What does the Hebrew word day in Genesis 1 mean Why do so many ...

Many people believe that according to the Bible, there has been a cosmic Fall as a result of the sin of the first humans, and death was a consequence of this supposed Fall. Many such approaches to ...

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Q: Must we take the first several verses of Genesis literally in order to respect the spiritual authority of the rest of the Bible? Conversely, must the literal nature of the Genesis creation story be ...

You might not expect it, but the very first words of the Torah explain how social change works. The most familiar English rendering is “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” That’s ...

As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career ...

is not literally true reflects how Moses, God’s greatest Veep, tells us in Deuteronomy 6: 5 to love His Chief, a metaphor about a God who though He rests on Sabbath, does not sleep. In “The Vatican ...