Answers to your
Bible Questions

Search our database of answers now, or explore by category to discover something new.

Search answers

46 Results

How did the animals survive the inbreeding as a result of Noah's Flood?

You are correct in looking at Noah's Flood from a genetic perspective as being a disaster for population fitness. Indeed, if we took two animals of each kind today, and repeated the effect of The Flood at a genetic level we would expect to see ext...
25 July 2021
For how long was the Garden of Eden around?

We begin to get these dates from Genesis 5. We know that Adam died when he was 930 (v.5) and by adding the dates in which each generation was born we can determine that Noah was born 126 years after Adam died, making his birth 1056 years after cre...
22 February 2021
Did God use an extra day to make different human races?

Your suggestion that God created "races" on an eighth day of Creation is not found in Scripture, and in fact, it contradicts Scripture. First, the Bible is clear that there were only six days of Creation. The Bible never records an "eighth" d...
17 February 2021
How do I explain dinosaurs to my child?

There is nothing significant nor special about ‘dinosaurs’. They are merely extinct animals, no different than a carrier pigeon or dodo bird. They lived on earth in times past and today we occasionally find their skeletal remains. Beyond that, you...
17 February 2021
“Eve” or “Woman”?

In the account of Creation, the original name of Adam's wife was Woman: Gen. 2:22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Gen. 2:23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones...
3 February 2020
How is Genesis 1:1 evidence of the Trinity?

Our understanding of the Trinity doesn't rest on a single verse of the Bible. The truth of the plurality of the Godhead is evident from the first verse of the Bible (Genesis 1:1) to the last (Rev 22:17-18). For a more detailed explanation of the B...
16 December 2019
Can you explain gender in the Creation account?

According the Bible, our Creator does not possess gender, though He refers to Himself in the masculine gender in keeping with His role of “Father” and “Son.” Regarding the creation of man, mankind is the pinnacle of God’s creative work, and as s...
9 July 2019
Were the people in Noah’s day aware of their sin?

Your question assumes that God owes mankind a "declaration of righteousness" or some other explanation of the standards of God and the consequences of sin, but the Bible makes no such promise. On the contrary, the Bible says God owes mankind nothi...
27 May 2019
What does the Bible say about how the solar system revolves?

The Bible makes no claims regarding the orbital dynamics of the solar system, so there is no case to be made from scripture in the matter you mentioned. The Bible describes the working of our universe from the perspective of a human being standing...
10 April 2019
Was Adam created as a man or baby?

The Bible doesn’t specify the age of Adam at Creation, but we know he was created as an adult, since God assigned Adam work immediately from the beginning and gave him a wife on Day 6. Likewise, the Lord created all the earth so that it was read...
19 September 2018

VERSE BY VERSE
MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

P.O. Box 702107
San Antonio, Texas, 78270
210.319.5055
© 2023 ~ all rights reserved

Access all of our teaching materials through our smartphone apps conveniently and quickly

Logo

Logo

Preferred language