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Why did Creation take so long?

I chuckled when I read your comment regarding my Genesis study. I am pleased to hear my comment piqued your interest in that study, and you can hear the entire teaching in our Genesis Bible Study. Still, I can try to give you something of an answ...
8 July 2009

Explaining Satan’s creation and fall

The history of angels (and demons) is sparsely covered in scripture, probably because they are secondary to the purposes of God in authoring scripture. Nevertheless, we do get some details in the Bible. First, we know that the Lord created the a...
28 September 2015

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

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

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

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

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

Does Isaiah 65:17-25 refer to the Millennial Kingdom or the New Creation?

The reference in Isaiah 65:17 to the new heavens is not the same "new heavens and earth" of Revelation 21. Isaiah is referring to the repaired world that will host the 1,000-year Kingdom on earth. We know this because of multiple details: First, ...
16 December 2019