Q:  Gen 4: 3-5 God looked favorable upon Abel’s offering but not Cain’s. Why? It doesn’t seem fair to me. A:  Actually verse 7 gives us a clue. Cain was really not trying to do what was right but just trying to get by. Verse 3 says that he merely brought some fruit as an [...]

-Q: What if Adam and Eve never ate from the Tree—would they still be in the Garden? Then what about the rest of us since childbirth seems to be a resulting punishment? -A: It is possible they would still be there. However the Biblical record doesn’t really speak to that possibility one way or another [...]

Q:  How long did Adam and Eve live in the Garden? A:  There is no way of telling. The Bible doesn’t really give us any clues. It could have been a few days or hundreds of years—no way of knowing. However it does say that Adam got rather lonely before Eve came along so it [...]

Q: In Genesis 3 evil comes into the world. Why did God create evil? After all if God supposedly created everything then he must have created evil also. A: God did not create evil. He did create Satan who had been his highest angel but became evil by choice. He also created the man and [...]

Q: Isn’t God just the sum total of everyone and everything in the Universe—he or she is the creation itself? A: That is a ‘pantheistic’ perspective of God which is what a lot of Eastern religions teach.  It is not the teaching of the Bible. We have had this exact question before-here’s a link to [...]

Q: In Genesis 1, we read that God created light before He created the Sun.  What is this light?  -Chris T. A: Actually the Sun or stars for that matter are not the only sources of light in the universe. Last night I flipped on the ‘light’ switch when it got dark. But more seriously, [...]

Q: Adam & Eve were the 1st man/woman.  Able/Cain were were their sons.  Who were the people Cain thought might kill him, because he killed Able?  And where did they come from? Were they not off spring of Adam/Eve, therefore brothers/sisters of Cain/Able?   -Chuck A: Chuck, we actually dealt with that very question a couple [...]

Q:  God said that Adam and Eve would die if they ate the forbidden fruit but they didn’t? A:  Actually they did die just not immediately. Death became a part of the human saga after Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree. The inference here is that Adam and Eve might have lived on [...]

Q:  What was the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ in the Garden of Eden and why weren’t Adam and Eve allowed to eat from it? A:  The Bible doesn’t really actually explain what the tree is though it does seem rather self explanatory. Once they did eat from the tree Adam and [...]

Q:  What about the first woman. In Gen 1: 27 it states that “male and female he created them” –both of them. Yet the first woman Eve doesn’t really show up until much later in 2: 22? A:  Gen. 1 gives us the summary and the general order of creation while chapter 2 goes back [...]