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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Mark Ostertag Ordered by Date |
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1 | Where do angels sing in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Mark Ostertag | 31567 | ||
You said: Quote me the verse and the words that people were "singing" rather than "saying". Well hear it is: Matthew 26:30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. There are more but this is the first one that came to mind. |
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2 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 13904 | ||
I didn't ask the question, I only answered it and will probably answer it again. | ||||||
3 | Possibly a niece? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 13900 | ||
Yes. Only because they lived so long. Cain could have been 200 hundred years old before he married. Possibility that's all. | ||||||
4 | Niece? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 13449 | ||
What I'm saying is Cain either married his SISTER or he could have possibly married his niece. Keep in mind how many hundreds of years these people lived. Adam didn't die until he was 930 years old. My parents had ten children within 15 years. Adam and Eve could have had hundreds of daughters for Cain to choose from. | ||||||
5 | Cain was first? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 13166 | ||
You are right, Cain was their first son. Cain's wife was either his younger sister or his niece. |
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6 | where do blacks come from? | Bible general Archive 1 | Mark Ostertag | 3835 | ||
Adam or Noah! | ||||||
7 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 3834 | ||
Poorly-informed anti-creationist scoffers occasionally think they will 'floor' creation apologists with examples of 'new species forming' in nature. They are often surprised at the reaction they get from the better-informed creationists, namely that the creation model depends heavily on speciation. It seems clear that some of the groupings above species (for example, genera, and sometimes higher up the hierarchy) are almost certainly linked by common ancestry, that is, are the descendants of one created ancestral population (the created kind, or baramin). Virtually all creation theorists assume that Noah did not have with him pairs of dingoes, wolves and coyotes, for example, but a pair of creatures which were ancestral to all these species, and probably to a number of other present-day species representative of the 'dog kind'. Demonstrating that speciation can happen in nature, especially where it can be shown to have happened rapidly, is thus a positive for creation theorists. A commonly heard objection is that, surely, speciation is evolution, and that the creationists are postulating even more rapid post-Flood evolution than evolutionists do! In reply, it should be pointed out that the difference is all about genetic information. The 'big picture' of evolution is that protozoa have become pelicans, palm trees and people. Thus it must have involved processes which, via natural causes, increased the genetic information in the biosphere. The creationist assumes that real, substantive increases in information (that is, specifying for an increase in what might be called 'functional complexity') will never arise without intelligent cause. Speciation within the creationist model will therefore be expected to occur in the absence of any increases in the information within the biosphere, and thus can properly be classified as non-evolutionary. Of course, such changes (for example, speciation as a result of horizontal changes in information, or as a result of a mutational defect with a loss of information) do not in themselves offer evidence against 'big picture' evolution, since they can easily be assigned a place within the overall model. However, one needs to emphatically point out that they do not suffice to demonstrate the validity of such evolutionary belief, since they can be just as easily assigned a place within a creationist model. Note also that some anti-creationists have mockingly claimed that for a number of species to descend from one pair would require that pair to have huge super-chromosomes to carry all the information needed. While one cannot say dogmatically that existing knowledge of genetic mechanisms is definitely sufficient to provide for all the post-Flood variation needed (and in fact, some creationist thinkers have postulated that there might have been as-yet-undiscovered mechanisms as well), I suggest that the converse has not yet been demonstrated. Maximum heterozygosity would surely give a massive variation potential. Normal selectionist/adaptationist pressures, via Mendelian reshuffling and sorting of that information could presumably see substantial diversity arise within subsets of that information, just as artificial selection has shown itself capable of generating many different dog varieties, for example, in a few generations. However, the reality is that, in the case of postulated post-Flood variation in the creation model, the subgroups have the status of separate species. That is, even though they may in some instances interbreed in captivity, they generally do not do so in the wild. Thus mechanisms of speciation, particularly rapid speciation, far from causing creationists to shudder, are actually of great interest. In this light, it was fascinating to read special reports on a major scientific conference on speciation held in Asilomar, California in May.1,2 Taking the most straightforward modern understanding of a species (though not the only one, and not without its own problems), as a group of organisms which can interbreed in nature and does not naturally and freely interbreed with another, it is not hard to see how this sort of variation (from selection of information subsets) could easily lead to reproductive incompatibilities (as could mutational defects and information losses, of course). It may be, for instance, that sheer size differences would allow a population of Chihuahuas and Great Danes to be classified as separate species, if found in the wild. |
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8 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 3832 | ||
What difference does it make whether one believes the world was created or evolved? Can't one embrace Christianity and Evolution? An outspoken evolutionist answered this question in the American Atheist magazine with the following reply: "Christianity is - must be! - totally committed to the special creation as described in Genesis, and Christianity must fight with its full might against the theory of evolution. And here is why. In Romans we read that 'sin entered the world through one man, and through sin - death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned.' (5:12) ...the whole justification of Jesus' life and death is predicated on the existence of Adam and the forbidden fruit he and Eve ate. Without the original sin, who needs to be redeemed? Without Adam's fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death, what purpose is there to Christianity? None. Even a high school student knows enough about evolution to know that nowhere in the evolutionary description of our origins does there appear an Adam or an Eve or an Eden or a forbidden fruit. Evolution means a development from one form to the next to meet the ever-changing challenges from an ever-changing nature. There is no fall from a previous state of sublime perfection. Without Adam, without the original sin, Jesus Christ is reduced to a man with a mission on a wrong planet!" Did this opponent of Christianity understand the issues more clearly than most Christians? How important it is that we as Christians be consistent in our thinking. We must accept all of the Bible as God's Word. In it God says what He means and He means what He says. We are reminded of the words of the apostle John who wrote, "The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) No, Christ was not merely a man with a mission on the wrong planet. He was truly God incarnate of a love mission to the right planet. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) |
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9 | Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? | Job 3:8 | Mark Ostertag | 3831 | ||
Before the Flood, dinosaurs and man lived together on our planet. Extinction of the great marine reptiles, along with the majority of all other types of sea creatures, would have been caused by the violent upheavals of the Flood, many being buried and preserved as fossils. Two of each kind of land-dwelling dinosaurs survived by being taken into the Ark. After the Flood, they faced a radically different and more hostile world, and became extinct, along with countless other less spectacular creatures, some time after. There is some evidence that men knew about dinosaurs for a short time (perhaps several centuries after the Flood) before they finally became extinct. The descriptions of behemoth (Job 40:15) and leviathan (Job 41:1 ) quite possibly refer to some of the few post-Flood giant reptiles still in existence at that time. Job is thought to have lived before the time of Moses (i.e., before 1400 BC), but the writer of the Psalms (Psalm 74:14; 104:26) and the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 27:1) also make mention of the great beast leviathan and they are dated much later. Added to this is the obvious fact that not every square inch of this earth has been explored, and there may yet be some of these intriguing kinds of creatures alive on our planet. |
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10 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Mark Ostertag | 3830 | ||
Question: Where did Cain get his wife? The Bible teaches clearly that all human beings are descendants of Adam and Eve-thus there had to be inter-marriage between brother and sister. There would have been no risk of this causing harmful deformities in the offspring, because mutations (accidental changes in the hereditary information) need time to occur and accumulate in a population. Thus the first few generations would have inherited perfect or near-perfect genes, largely undamaged by mutations. In the pre-Flood world, harmful radiation from the sun and other cosmic sources was considerably more filtered than it is in the post-Flood world. Increased radiation and depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere (subsequent to the lowering of the atmospheric pressure) may have contributed greatly to man's rapid degeneration. With the passing of many centuries, many of these harmful, degenerative changes became added to the human race, so by the time of Moses it was absolutely necessary to have laws against incest, and these were given to mankind (Leviticus 18-20). Today there would be even more chance of deformity/disease in the offspring of such a union than in Moses's time. Because of the long life-spans, Adam and Eve's descendants may have been very numerous and widely dispersed before Cain even took a wife-that is, any inhabitants of the land of Nod would have been descendants of Adam and Eve, who had many sons and daughters. |
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