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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
Was the flood the end of God’s curse on the earth?

First, in Genesis 8 the Lord promised that He would never again wipe out all life on earth again as He did in the flood. Specifically, the Lord promised that as long as the earth exists, He would not repeat the disaster of the flood: Gen. 8:21 Th...
8 August 2018
Where did Moses get the information to write the Creation account?

While the Bible itself is silent on the matter, two plausible answers have been proposed. First, Moses' knowledge of the origins of the world could have been passed to him through a process of oral history from Adam to Moses. Due to the extremel...
30 June 2018
Where did human races come from?

First, we recommend you read our article on the Bible's perspective on race. Secondly, the Bible teaches that the scattering of humanity at Babel was exclusively a matter of confusing human language, not of race: Gen. 11:7 “Come, let Us go down ...
29 June 2018
If God knew we would sin, why did He create us?

The Lord created Adam and Woman with the intent that sin would exist. The very design of Creation itself reveals that God anticipated sin. He did so to demonstrate His full character to us. God required sin to exist so that He could demonstrate Hi...
26 June 2018
Where is Jesus in the Creation account?

In your study of Genesis 1 and John 1, you are moving in the right direction, though you have not come to the right conclusion. John constructed his Gospel to demonstrate Jesus as the fulfillment of various Old Testament pictures. Most of the chap...
26 June 2018
In the Creation story, does “good” mean “purposeful”?

In his teaching on Creation, Pastor Armstrong points out that the Hebrew word translated “good” is tob, which simply means good. He does not define the word to mean purposeful, however does teach that when God calls something good, He is stating t...
24 June 2018
Does scripture say that human lifespan is 70-80 years?

The verse you quoted from Psalm 90 must be understood in its context (as is the case with all scripture). The context of v.10 is: Psa. 90:7 For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath, we have been dismayed. Psa. 90:8 You have place...
16 January 2018
Was Adam’s Garden inside Eden?

Your confusion is the result of the rendering in your English translation. The original Hebrew does not create this confusion. Looking at Genesis 2:10 we find: Gen. 2:10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divi...
13 January 2018

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