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. Also modern environmentalists and some ‘new agers’ talk about the Earth as being ‘mother god’ or Gaia. It [...]

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 [...]

Q:  In Genesis there seems to a contradiction. Gen 1:25 shows God creating animals first then Man, yet later in Gen.2:18 he creates Man first and then the animals. Please explain. A:  The creation process and order is summarized in Genesis one then in the second chapter the details are filled in pertaining to the [...]

Q:  Who was the first person to give tithes to God?  -Nathan H A:  Abraham. From the very beginning, Adam and his family gave offerings to God (Gen. 4:3-5). However, the first mention of a tenth or a tithe being given is found in Gen. 14:18-20. Abraham had just won a great battle against some [...]

Q:  Were the ‘Days’ in Genesis One 24 hours long? A:  The Hebrew word used for ‘day’ in Genesis one does not necessarily indicate a 24 hour unit of time. It can also mean a larger indefinite span of time. Although most of the time in the scriptures according to the context it does stand [...]