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 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:  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:  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 [...]

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 [...]