Genesis 17

Genesis 17
In this chapter circumcision is initiated as a sign of God’s covenant with Abraham and his descendents. Circumcision is still practiced among Jews to this day. The time following birth that is given for performing a circumcision is the 8th day. It needs to be noted the modern medicine has shown do to a peeking of potassium levels on the 8th day following birth making it the ideal time for performing a circumcision. God also changes Abraham name from Abram to Abraham and Sarah’s name Sarai from to Sarah

Genesis 16: 4-16

Genesis 16: 4-16
After Abraham takes Hagar as a second wife she gets pregnant causing Sarah to get jealous. Hagar flees but God intervenes telling her to return and that she will have a son who will become the father of many nations. A fact demonstrated by the fact that the Arabian people of the descendents of Ishmael.

Genesis 16:1-3

Genesis 16:1-3
What this veres shows is that day’s version of a surrogate mother. It also shows a lack of faith in God. In all fairness to Abraham and Sarah were just showing a normal human weakness that shows up when God timing not only is not ours but makes no sense to us.

Genesis 15

Genesis 15 is mainly a confirmation of the Abrahamic Covenant in which God promised that Abraham’s descendents will inherit the land of Canaan. It also predicts the 400 year sojourn in Egypt of the Children of Israel and God’s promise to bring them out of Egypt to the land of Canaan to then inherit it.

Genesis 14: 21-24

Genesis 14: 21-24 shows the king of Sodom requesting to Abraham to return his people to him but told him that he could keep all of the goods recovered from the invasion. Actually by the military traditions of that day Abraham had every right to keep the goods even if the king of Sodom has said nothing. However Abraham tells the king of Sodom that he we return both the recovered goods and the people to him with the exception of the portion of the recovered goods that Abraham’s men were due for the part in the rescue.

Genesis 14:17-20

Genesis 14:17-20

Here we are introduced to a rather enigmatic person by the name of Melchizedek he is called the king of Salem and the priest of the most high God. The passages further says that gave him tithes. (a tenth) There hare are two main theories on Melchizedek’s identity. One is that that he was Shem, the son of Noah. The other is that he was a preincarnate appearance of Jesus.

Genesis 14:13-16

Genesis 14:13-16

When Abraham finds out that Lot was taken captive he get his men together and goes after the invading kings. The relatively small band sneaks into the invader’s camp, kills them rescues the captives, including Lot and recovers all of the goods taken by the invaders. Abraham shows faith in God here by taking on an overwhelmingly superior force.

Genesis 13: 14-18

Genesis 13: 14-18

In these verses God promises the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendents specifically the Jews. This why support of the nation of Israel right to the land needs to be supported. These verses also indicate that Abraham’s descendents would be huge in number and to day that is certainly the truth despite multiple efforts exterminate the Jews they survive because of God’s protection.

Genesis 13: 12-13

Genesis 13: 12-13
These verses show that while Abraham dwelt in Canaan where God wanted him. Lot turned is gaze on the city of Sodom which verse 13 says the men there of were exceedingly wicked.

Genesis 13: 5-11

Genesis 13: 5-11 tells pf the parting of Abraham and Lot.

Genesis 13:1-4

Genesis 13:1-4
Abraham left Egypt with his entire house hold and possessions he returned to Beth-el back to the altar he had built earlier. This is a case of him returning to God’s will.

Genesis 12: 14-20

Genesis 12: 14-20 shows some of the affects of Abraham’s disobedience to God and his deception on the part of his wife. One of the things that supports the historical nature of the Biblical account is the fact the Bible show the flaws of its greatest heroes.

At first things because of his Deception Abraham acquires many possessions including maidservants one of which was probably Hagar who late becomes the mother of Ishmael. However God sends plagues on Pharaoh’s house. This Pharaoh was quite possibly Khufu the builder of the great pyramid of giza or his son. In any event this causes Pharaoh to realize that Sarah was Abraham wife and sends them away.
God actually used this to get Abraham back on track and back to the land of Canaan where God wanted him.

Genesis 12: 11-13

Genesis 12: 11-13 shows Abraham engaging in a deception was also disrespecting his wife and putting her at risk. However it needs to be noted that this was not a technically a lie in that as we will later find out Sarah was his half sister being the daughter of his father but not his mother. This would not have caused an inbreeding problem as it does today since there would have been fewer mutations back at this time than even a few hundred years later. That said Abraham was still wrong to engage in such a deception even if was partly true

Analytical Thought Claimed to Reduce Religious Beliefs

Analytical Thought Claimed to Reduce Religious Beliefs

A new study published in Science Magazine concludes analytical thought reduces religious beliefs. The study showed participants intuitively attractive questions for which the intuitive answer is wrong. The participants were then asked about their religious beliefs. The result showed that those that indicated stronger religious beliefs were more likely to give the more intuitive answers. They were then given stimuli that encouraged either analytical or intuitive thought. They were then retested on religious beliefs and those encouraged intuitive thought expressed increased strength in religious beliefs while those encouraged either analytical thought expressed less. The conclusion was that concludes analytical thought reduces religious beliefs. However there are a number of problems with these studies.

The first problem is that the questions on religious beliefs were vague general questions. Some religious beliefs are more intuitive while others are more analytical. For example new age is almost entirely intuitive being based largely on practices like meditation. On the other hand Christianity is more analytical in that it is based on historical events such as the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. There is no consideration in these studies of such differences and the specifics of what participants believed and why.

The second problem is that there is no correlation of individuals given between the different methods. This is important because such a correlation should show who is more likely to be affected. For example it could show that more analytical people are less affected by the stimuli than more intuitive people or the exact opposite. The point is that no such correlation is given so there is no way to know how individual responses correlate across each method.

While these studies are interesting they are way too broad and lack consideration of factors that could have affected the results.

Genesis 12: 7-10

Genesis 12: 7-10

These verses show that when he first came to the land of Canaan that God told Abraham that this was the land that he was to go to. God further promised it to Abraham’s descendents.

Genesis 12: 4-6

Genesis 12: 4-6 shows that Abraham left the town of Haran with his wife and his entire house hold and his possessions. His nephew Lot went wit him. Abraham was 75 years old at the time. They arrive in the land of Canaan arriving at Sichem. The in habitants of the land at the time were the Canaanites. They were the decedents of Canaan. the son of Ham and grand son of Noah.

Genesis 12:1-3

Genesis 12:1-3
Here is where God called Abraham to leave his father’s house to got to the land of Canaan at this point God does not tell Abraham exactly where he is going wanting him to take a step of pure faith God also promises to make from him (no children yet) an entire nation and to bless him. Abraham is called Abram here because God later changes his name to Abraham.

The Tomb of Jesus

The Tomb of Jesus

Here is a four parte video on the tomb of Jesus making the case for the Garden tomb being Jesus's tomb from where he rose from the dead.It makes the case for the Garden tomb being Jesus's tomb from where he rose from the dead. This video is in essence an archeological study into which of the two sites claimed as the tomb of Jesus is the correct one.

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Genesis 11:27-32

Genesis 11:27-32
This is an article on Terah’s family and the beginning of the trip from Ur to Canaan  mentioned in Genesis 11:27-32.

Genesis 11:5-9

Genesis 11:5-9

In an act of judgment to get man to finally spread out over the Earth God changed their language so that they suddenly spoke different languages. This is the only recorded time that God interferers directly with the Human mind and even in this he did not interfere with their free will. This dispersion is actually supported by DNA Evidence. (see DNA and Babel and human migration)

Genesis 11:4

Genesis 11:4
Under Nimrod's leadership the people of that day started building a city so as to stay together rather than spread over the Earth as God had commanded. They also started to build a tower that as to be a center of worship. The reference to the reaching unto heaven may have just have been a reference to it being so high that it towered over the rest of the city, it may have been a purely figurative reference to worship, it may have severed to an observatory of the star.

Genesis 11:1-4

Genesis 11:1-4 show that everyone had descended from eight people and that they had stayed together makes it logical that their language would be the same. The land of Shinar was roughly part of modern-day Iraq and this reference shows familiarity with the area since dried or fire burnt bricks are the most practical building material in that part of the world. This is actually supported by DNA Evidence. (see reference)\

Reference

DNA and Babel and human migration

Genesis 10:32

Genesis 10:32 is a summery shows once again that all nations are descended from Noah and his family. The is supported by DNA data.

Genesis 10:21-31

Genesis 10:21-31 shows  the decedents of Shem. Following Babel they settled mainly in the Middle East and Asia, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various nations is in these areas. Verse 25 says of Eber’s son Peleg; “for in his days was the earth divided”, this indicates that Peleg was born at he time of the destruction of the Tower of Babel

Genesis 10:6-20

Genesis 10:6-20 shows the decedents of Ham. Following Babel they settled mainly in Africa, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various nations in like Sheba which according to local tradition was in modern Ethiopia. These verse also mentions the Canaanites who are known to have settled in what is now Israel.

Genesis 10:2-5

Genesis 10:2-5 shows the decedents of Japheth. Following Babel they settled in Europe, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various European nations.

Genesis 10:1

Genesis 10:1 is the beginning the sixth tablet In this case it contains genealogies of Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Genesis 9:28-29

Genesis 9:28-29 shows us that Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and died at the ripe old age of  950 years old.

Genesis 9:20-27

Genesis 9:20-27 is the fist recorded drunkenness in the Bible. This passage was erroneously used to excuse black slavery, it is thus wrongly referred to as the curse of Ham, but note the cures was not on Ham but on his son Canaan. Black Africans are not descended from Canaan, the Canaanites were and they lived in the land that is now Israel

Genesis 9:18-19

Genesis 9:18-19 is a clear statement that all living human beings are descended from Noah’s three son’s and their wives. This has been verified by studies of human mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA both which show a clear three way split centered on the Middle East where Babel was.

Genesis 9:8-17

In Genesis 9:8-17 Here God makes a covenant; which is a special type of promise; with Noah and his descendants not to flood the Earth again and He designates the rain bow as a sing of that promise.

Genesis 9:4-7

Genesis 9:4-7
Verse four is a propitiation against consuming blood and it is a clear statement of a scientific principle of blood’s importance to life. This was clearly not believed by though that would bleed people trying to heal them.

Genesis 9:2-3

Prior to the Flood Animals had no innate fair of man as wild animals often do to day. In Genesis 9:2-3  God tells man he can eat meat at this point. This change in diet was probably a result of the change in environment following the Flood resulting in an all vegetarian diet not providing as much nutrition as before.

Genesis 9:1

In Genesis 9:1 God is tells Noah and his family to have lots of kids and to repopulate the Earth, Which they did since there are now 7 billion people spread all over Earth. As we will see it took some proding from God however.

Genesis 8: 21-22

In Genesis 8: 21-22 God not only accepted Noah’s offering but promised not to destroy all life again is such a manner. This is also proof the flood was global since there have been numerous local flood simce

Genesis 8: 20

According to Genesis 8: 20 the reason why seven of each kind of clean animal was that Noah need them for food and for sacrifices.

Genesis 8: 15-19

In Genesis 8: 15-19 God tels Noah and his family it was time leave the ark. He also told them and the animals to have lots and lots of kids. They did so.

Genesis 8:13-14

Genesis 8:13-14 gives the exact dates that Flood events occurred. The first time is when the water was dried off of the surface of the ground but the ground itself was still socked and muddy and the second about fifty days latter the ground it self had dried out.

Genesis 8:8-12

Genesis 8:8-12 says that Noah sent out a Dove which at first returned to him, then seven days layer he sent it out again and it returned with a freshly picked olive leaf in it beak, this indicates that plant life was starting to grow again. Noah then sent the dove out a week later and it did not return.

Genesis 8:6-7

Genesis 8:6-7
40 days after the Flood finished draining Noah sent out a raven and it kust flew around until the ground was dry enough for it to land. Note: the Hebrew word “`oreb” includes not only raven, but crows and similar birds.

Genesis 8:3-5

Genesis 8:3-5
Genesis 7:17 says the Flood water started going down after 150 days, and then drained for another 150 days, (Genesis 8:3) for a total of 300 days which would be 10 months. Furthermore verse 4 says the Ark land on the 17th day of the 7 months which would be five months after the Flood started. Verse 5 says the mountains were first seen on the on the 1st day of the 10th month or 253 days after the Flood started.

Genesis 8:2

The word stopped not only means to end but also to close.Genesis 8:2indicates that the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed at this point. This consistent with the earlier suggestion the Earth atmosphere was the “windows of heaven” opened by water from the fountains of the deep ripping through it. Once eruption of subterranean water ended the whole collapsed back closing the “windows of heaven.” The shock wave from the closer may have been the wind mentioned in verse one. Not that this resulted in the rain ending. This would have occurred after forty days.

Genesis 8:1

Genesis 8:1 does not imply that God forgot Noah and all that were in the Ark with him, but rather it shows that God did not for get them. This verse indicates that is at this point in that the water reached its peek and started to settle down since the Flood would have been a storm like no other before or since.

Genesis 7:19-24

Genesis 7:19-24 makes it clear this Flood was global in extent. It says that the heist mountains in world at that time were covered by water to a depth of 15 cubits. This means that this flood had to be a Global Flood since any Flood covering the highest mountains in the world would by definition be a global Flood.

Genesis 7:13-18

Genesis 7:13-18 indicates that Noah and his family entered the ark on the same day. One question often asked is whether or not the ark could be loaded with the needed animals in a day.

Genesis 7:1-3

Genesis 7:1-3
A common argument against the feasibility of Noah’s Ark is that it could not possibly carry representatives of every species that has ever lived on Earth. Now this is true but then again the Ark did not have to carry representatives of every species just land animal genus and in some cases families. It has been estimated that
there are only about 8,000 living and extinct genera for a total of a bout 16000 individuals.

Given the Ark’s dimensions 45 X 75 X 450 gives the ark a volume of 1,518,750 ft3. This means that here was and average volume per animal of 94 ft3 which is more than enough room for most kinds of animals and their food supply. While some animals like elephants and larger dinosaurs are quite large most animals are actually rather small, in fact averaging the big and the small animals results in an average size about that of sheep.

Genesis 6:17-22

Genesis 6:17-22 is the first direct reference to the Flood making a clear indication that it was a global Flood as is indicated by both the descriptions of the victims of the Flood and the description of the Ark’s passengers and cargo.

Genesis 6:11-13

The implications of Genesis 6:11-13 is that there was so much violence on Earth that the human population may have already been in decline. If this was the case the Flood may have actually prevented the extinction of the human race.

Genesis 6:9-10

Genesis 6:9-10 says that Noah was “perfect in his generations” . This is the being of Noah’s tablet or writing. The term “perfect in his generations” seems to indicate that Noah’s family was not involved in the events of his day, specifically those mentioned in verse 2. In fact the Bible is clear by the time of the Flood Noah’s family were the only genuine believers in God left.

Genesis 6:1-8

Genesis 6:1-8
There are several views about this passage. The differences in these views center on the identification of those referred two as “the sons of God” and the other details of each view extends from who “the sons of God” are identified as. There are three main views on this: Sethites, Rulers, and Fallen angels,

Genesis 5:32

Genesis 5:32
This is an article on the births of Shem, Ham, and Japheth mentioned in Genesis 5:32. It is clear from Genesis 11 that not all of these three sons were born in Noah’s 500th year. This is because Shem had a son at age 100, two years after the Flood. Since Noah was 603 at the time Shem would have been born when Noah was 503. The most likely possibility is that Ham, or Japheth was actually the oldest born when Noah was 500.

Genesis 4:25-26

Genesis 4:25-26
This is end of Adams’s account and mentions Seth as a replacement for Able, suggesting that Able’s murder took place shortly before Seth was born. There seems also have been a rival at this time with men turning. Seth’s birth seems to have been the catalyst. His birth may have gotten men thinking about God in light of Able’s death.

DNA and Babel and human migration

DNA and Babel and human migration
This is an article and how DNA provides evidence for the Noah’s Flood and the post Babel human migration.

The Genographic Project is project of the National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation. The plan is to determine the migration patterns starting in Africa and going to the rest of the world. The project is continuing but they have parliamentary results, which National Geographic describes in some detail. One factor they left out is the fact that their conclusions are based largly on the assumption of Evolution.

One can also make the Biblical assumption that it started in Iraq. when this is done the data supports the Bible with clear 3 way split in both and the Mitochondria Y-chromosome lines when one starts in Iraq. Now Noah had 3 sons and 3 daughter in-laws. Since the Bible does not indicate that Noah and his wife had any kids after the Flood, we would expect a 3 way spit, and that is what we have.

Genesis 4:17-26

Genesis 4:17-26 is a list of one of the lines that descended from Cain through to the seventh generation.

The the sixth and seventh generations have several firsts. Lamech is the first recorded case of bigamy. His two wives are named named being only two og the four named pre-Flood woma. Their names were Adah and Zillah.

The first nomadic was herdsman Adah's son Jabal .
The first musician was Adah's son Jubal.
Tubal-cain son of Zillah was the first metal worker and his work included brass and iron.

Tubal-cain sister the fourth of the four pre-Flood woman mentioned by name was Naamah is some what enigmatic. She was most probably married to a male descendents of Seth one possibility is Ham wife. THis idea is wife issupprted by mitochondrial data which showing that Mrs. Shem and Mrs. Japheth were more closely related to each other than they were to Mrs. Ham.

Genesis 4:16-17

Cain’s wife and city he built are mentioned in Genesis 4:16-17. This brings us to the most common question asked about the Bible “Where did Cain get his wife?” The answer is so simple that most people never consider it. She was his sister. While such inbreeding would a problem today, do to the high number of mutations siblings have in common it would not have been a problem in earlier generations.

Genesis 4:14-15

Genesis 4:14-15
Cain’s concern that if someone were to find him they would only makes sense if there was a significant human population at the time all of which were descended from Adam and Eve. If Cain and Able had been the only kids at this time Cain would only have been concerned about his father finding him.

Genesis 4:3-13

Genesis 4:3-13
Cain did the deed because he got angrie at his brother Abel because Abel had offered a proper sacrifice and Cain had not. Cain’s hart may have been in the right place but he did not do what God had told them to do. Instead of admitting his wrong doing Cain got agree and killed his brother as though that would have made God accept his offering.

Science and Religion in Conflict

Science and Religion in Conflict
The scientific establishment refusal of all consideration of the supernatural mans that when mainstream science and religion deal with the same topic there will be conflict with the exception of Atheism which denies the supernatural. This particlularly true of the Biblical account where God creared man as opposed to evolving from animals.

Genesis 4:1-2

Genesis 4:1-2
This is an account of Adam's and Eve's fist children. It is often mistakenly assumed they Cain and Able were their only children, but that is not true.

Genesis 3:14

Genesis 3:14

This is an article on the curse on the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3:14. This suggests that snakes originally had legs and lost them as part of the curse related to Man’s fall.

Genesis 2:24-25

Genesis 2:24-25
This is an article on the firmament mentioned in Genesis 2:24-25.

Genesis 2:21-23

Genesis 2:21-23
This is an article on the creation of Eve mentioned in Genesis 2:21-23.

Video on the Burden of Proof

Video on the Burden of Proof

Thw\e above link is to a video about the Burden of Proof in a discussion of ideas. Burden of Proof is the obligation of a party to provide sufficient evidence in support of their side of a dispute or issue.

Genesis 2:18-20

Genesis 2:18-20

God creates some additional animals in front of Adam so he could see God do it. God then has Adam name each kind of animal. This naturally raises the question of “Could Adam have named all these animals in one day?”

Genesis 2:17

Genesis 2:17

This is an article on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil mentioned in Genesis 2:17. Note that name of the tree is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and not
the the knowledge as some have claimed.

Genesis 2:15-16

Man’s pre-fall occupation in the Garden of Eden mentioned in Genesis 2:15-16

Genesis 2:10-14

Genesis 2:10-14

Genesis 2:8-9

Genesis 2:8-9
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Video on Theoretical Systems

Commonly called a paradigm, a theoretical System is the structure of concepts used by a scientific community
forming the bases for developing testable theories and interpreting data.

For more infomation watch this video on theoretical systems

Genesis 2:7

Read about the creation of man as described in Genesis 2:7

Archaeopteryx was a Black Bird

Studies of Archaeopteryx’s feathers show it to be a black flying bird.
Archaeopteryx was a Black Bird

Genesis 2:5-6

This is an article on the pre-Flood water cycle mentioned in Genesis 2:5-6

Genesis 2:4

Genesis 2:4

This is an article on the tablet theory of Genesis the bases for which starts in Genesis 2:4.
From Genesis Mission

Stephen Hawking shows his anti-religious attitude

Stephen Hawking shows his anti-religious attitude

Here is an article on recent anti-religious comments by Stephen Hawking.

Genesis 2:1-3

Genesis 2:1-3

Genesis 2:1-3
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made.

Video Comparison of Star Sizes

Video Comparison of Star Sizes


Psalm 8:3-4
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Video on Creation Science and what it is

Video on Creation Science and what it is

Genesis 1:29-31

Genesis 1:29-31

This is an article on the pre fall vegetarian diet mentioned in Genesis 1:29-31.