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Bible Q

By what means did God create light, the firmament, the earth, vegetation, the sun, moon and stars, and the animals?

People have tried to understand these things from a scientific perspective, but I don’t think you want a summary of physics, meteorology, geology, cosmology and biology. Science can only give a fairly dry description of the physical processes underlying creation, and cannot reveal God’s role. Matthew 6:26 tells us that God provides food for the […]

Before God created light was he in darkness?

The strange idea that God was once “in darkness” could be arrived at from an interpretation of Genesis 1 that paraphrases it as literally meaning: “about 6000 years ago there was nothing in the universe so it was dark and empty, but one day God said, “Let there be light”. I see problems with this […]

How has the Bible helped and changed the world today?

The Bible has helped change the world in a number of ways.1 Here are a few examples: Many laws were initially based on the teachings of the Bible.2 Slavery was abolished by people who saw it contradicted what the Bible taught about the worth of all people.3 Science has been  encouraged by many Biblically minded […]

Does the Bible contain scientific information unknown at the time?

Some attempts to find scientific knowledge in the Bible are misplaced. For example, in Isaiah 40:22 the ‘circle of the earth’ does not describe the earth as a sphere; the Hebrew word for ‘circle’ is used, not the Hebrew for ‘sphere’ or ‘ball’. However, the Bible does contain information which has historically been of considerable […]