Genesis, chapters one and two, present two accounts of creation. Many critics of the Bible (often, atheists) assume that they are contradictory. But there are many factors involved in interpreting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Old Testament scholar John Walton affirms a historical Adam—but says there are far more important dimensions to Genesis. In recent years, John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, ...

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 ...