To whom was God the Father referring as “one of us”
GENESIS 1:26 and Genesis 3:22 OTBDC: Who are these verses’ “us” and “our”?
GENESIS 1:16 OTBDC: Was light created or made, and was it on the first day or the fourth?
How is it that there could be light before the sun was made, or so it would seem? The problem arises because the creation account comes across as though the sun was not created until the fourth day (1:14-16), yet there was light on the first day (1:3). The solution to this Bible difficulty lies below.
GENESIS 1:10 OTBDC: Is the Hebrew word for “earth” the same here as is used in Genesis 1:1, and do they mean the same thing?
The Hebrew word is erets in both verse 1 and verse 10. Erets refers to (1) earth, as contrasted to the heavens (Gen 1:1); (2) or more restricted to all the dry land of the earth (1:10); (3) or restricted even further by referring to just the land of a certain section of the earth… Continue Reading →
GENESIS 1:1 OTBDC: Is the earth only 6,000 to 10,000 years old? Are the creative days, literally, only 24 hours long?
There are over a dozen different interpretations concerning the creative days of Genesis. Herein we will consider the main four in an effort to make our point. First, there is the young-earth view that asserts that all physical creation was produced in just six literal 24-hour days sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Second,… Continue Reading →