Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

History is the basis for every major Christian doctrine. Creation, a literal Adam and Eve, marriage, sin, death, the flood, the tower of Babel, Christ's virgin birth, His death and resurrection and ...

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As a kid, I would read these first words in my children’s Bible over and over again—not because I found them particularly interesting, but ...

The first book of the Bible is Genesis. Written by Moses, and part of the Torah, Genesis 1 describes how the Universe was created. There are several theories about how the Universe was created. As you ...

Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

The Torah recounts primarily the story of the Jewish people. Only a few chapters discuss or address other nations. The exception is in the beginning of the book of Genesis, with the accounts of ...

In Liana Finck’s Book of Genesis, Lilith is the Serpent, Joseph wears a merman tail and God is a woman. The New Yorker cartoonist’s latest graphic novel, “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her ...

In 1967, Lynn White Jr. famously laid responsibility for the contemporary ecological crisis squarely at the feet of the Christian tradition. White argued that Christianity is the most anthropocentric ...

The opening words of the Bible, “In the beginning,” evoke wonder and expectation, as they set the stage for action, for the beginning of all beginnings. What projects — big ones at work or something ...