Genesis Chapter 1 Discussion Page 37

God's word is spirit and life. And faith comes from God's word. Adam and Eve disobeyed God's word and they died for that. So the devil is a perverter. He just wants us to disobey the spirit and life word, the faith word so we destroy ourselves and others. Jesus Christ said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.

God bless you brother Robert

From Genesis 1:2 - ...darkness was over the surface of the deep... This verse does make it look like there was a created world which then was covered by something (perhaps ice or water) and then at a future time we read the quoted verse about "the surface of the deep".

The Lord in His mercy has not given to us information about the earth before Genesis. That does NOT mean there was nothing before then. It simply means it is not for us to know now. So to answer your question: Yes, there could have been floods before Noah's flood.

The best thing to do is to love the Lord Jesus with all your heart; then, one day you will see Him, and at that time you can ask Him whatever you want.

Peace and love in Christ

No there was no rain before the flood

Was there a flood before Noah's flood ?

Today is quiet and peaceful. Veterans Day is today. Memories flood the world today as the lost and disabled show up in places they once served their Country to protect our freedom. To protect God's creations. Our God was always by their side. Did they ever know. When the fighting got in their wars when they were so overwhelming. Did they even stop to call out His name for help. I think so. I know so. His Light covered them as the fighting became too much at times. God is our Strength. He is our protection

He is our wisdom. He is our beginning and our ending of our life. Do not ever forget that!!! GOD IS PURE LOVE!!!!

There is a 'Bible in a Year Reading Program' right here on KJB Online. On the main page, click on the 'More' Tab & scroll down till you see it under 'Bible Study Help'. Or else, go to the bottom of the main page & under 'Community'. They're in the Book of Acts at the moment.

Otherwise, there are many other Sites that offer such a program. These include The International Bible Society, Christianity dot com, Bible Study Tools (for a chronological reading of the Scriptures) & others.

I would like a structured program for reading the Bible in one year. Thanks, Ray P.

I fully support Prodigal son comments below and will pray as well that you find your friend so you can set him free with Gospel truth.

At the moment he believed (confessed that Jesus died for him in his place), he was sealed with the Holy Spirit as a down payment of His inheritance.

Nobody can snatch him out of God's hand - not even himself.

John 10:27-29 (LEB): 27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them* to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them* from the Father's hand.

In our sin nature, we will wander away out from under the Lords protection, but He has promised above not to lose a SINGLE one of us!

Have a blessed day

Totally agree with you.

Many get it wrong when they don't put the full weight of God's Word (promise) concerning their guaranteed Salvation once they are Born Again.

May the Lord bless you abundantly in standing firm to His Truth.

Is it "God and human reasoning & logic" that you're thinking of? Often, the two don't go together - one is from the Divine, the other from the Earth. One is the Creator - the other the created. God's Actions & Wisdom in what he does far surpasses what we do or think, or could even hope to achieve.

If we try to rationalize everything from creation & the appearance of living & non-living things to the future of man & the world he will live in, we'll come up with very different answers to what is declared in the Bible. Scientists have proffered their theories of the distant past & we have an abundance of 'prophetical voices', including those of mediums, who 'foretell' the future. All these may be acceptable as human nature searches for answers, any answers, for the reason for his existence, but to challenge the activity of the human mind & declare that after all is said & done, the voices we hear are only from finite men.

One would have a hard time, for example, convincing the creationist or the evolutionist to side with the other. We remain convinced by what we choose to believe & as such willing to accept all that is given as evidence. What convinces me as a 'creationist', is that God's Word is proven true because of its claims as God's Word. Man's word, based on his limited knowledge & many questionable mechanisms to reveal the past, gives me a rather shaky confidence in his abilities to do that work. I would rather that man concentrate on understanding his known historical past & present, thus learning from his errors or his virtues, than delve into the unknown & presume to be wise from his observations. What grieves me the most is that our children are being taught that which is produced from man's knowledge, rejecting what God has to say & declaring it a result of fables & old myths.

The day will come, when "the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped" ( Psalm 63:11b), & the world will know the God of Truth & the God Who makes & sustains all things.

Beloved, please tell your friend that Jesus took all his sins at the Cross. When he received Jesus as his Savior, he threw our sins as far as the East is to the West; which is a straight line into infinity. He dropped those sins into the sea of forgetfulness and remembers them no more.

He is the Alpha and the Omega, and he sees our lives from beginning to the end... including all of our sins. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is bad, but sincere repentance is possible.

He's a Prodigal Son who needs to come home to ABBA; His Father who's waiting for him.

Most of us have been on that road ourselves. Even me. That road back home is hard because every step taken, Satan cries loser! Sinner! He'll never take you back! Fool, Dreamer! Reminding us of all we said or did.

But then you see your Father on the road looking for you...and running to greet you.

Tell your friend, that he is forgiven and will be restored. LUKE 15:18-32

I'll pray you find him soon.

The reason the sin was unpardonable is that by blaspheming the Holy Ghost they were deliberately rejecting their only means of salvation. This is analogous to refusing the lifeline that could save you from drowning.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. ( Romans 5:8-10)

My friend was cursing at God a couple of times. Think out of anger rather than actually coming from his heart. Now he feels he can't go to heaven never. He believes in God, and Jesus died on the cross for his sins. He believes he's committed the unpardonable sin. He reads his bible and turned his life around to the Lord since this happened years ago. I haven't seen him over a year but he tells me that he feels fear of not going to heaven.

God and rationality

Genesis 2:20-25

How was Eve created? What I have read or heard, I don't remember, is that Adam was placed in a deep seep and GOD created Eve with one of Adam's ribs. Is that true? and if so. where can I find that information, in the Bible?

God is the one to turn to

thank you for this you guys are so good god shall always be with you

If you've said something incorrectly or inappropriately to someone, then go to that person & ask for forgiveness.

If you've hurt someone or committed some sin against that person, first confess your sin to God & receive His forgiveness through His Son Jesus Christ - then go to the one whom you've wronged & confess your error & make restitution if necessary to prove your sorrow.

If you've broken a law & you know that the authorities are after you for the crime, then the right thing to do is to present yourself to them as one admitting to it in a sorrowful manner.

In all these things, one has to humble oneself, admit to the error & seek forgiveness & make restitution. These are the steps towards being honest, humble & receiving peace in your soul about the matter. We all make errors in our lives - God does forgive us readily, but the hardest thing is for us to admit the error & act in humility, which in the natural man, goes against our pride & self justification.

Who do you turn to if your wrong?. Okay who do I turn to that is my question.

Genesis 2:1-3: "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

If you're referring to God "resting on the seventh day (of His creating Work)", we understand that means that He ceased from His work, i.e. He didn't get tired from all His hard work, rather, all that He purposed to do in establishing the worlds & all that is in & on them, was now complete & He refrained from further creating. However, this shouldn't imply that God's Hand was withheld from doing anything else in the future, but in establishing the worlds, they were completed.

What happened on the seventh day?

I put your word in the Search box and there are some comments, (Google) but the word itself is NOT in the Bible.

You'll have to find that quickie Google link to get to the comments.

PRETERIST" in the KJV Bible

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If they gad not disobeyed GOD , they would not have died,but ,It was GODs plan to restore all mankind to his fellowship.

To me the covering for Adam and Eve was made from animal skins, hence the first blood sacrifice.

what the Bible says about preterist beliefs

I have a crooked, short, peach tree in my backyard. This summer i was cutting the grass and found one little peach! So ,i bent over picked it up ,and it was absolutely, the best peach I ever had. I remind myself of this when I get depressed, even though it was a small piece of fruit, it was there. I will try to save this tree next year and hope that it will bear even more fruit next year! This tree is a good illustration of my life in a world that is without Christ! I hope that I will bear more fruit in my life, not because of what I do , but what Christ has already done for me! God Bless you!

Thanks for writing.

Thank you i wondered if the covering they had was eternal without corruption and then the body was to return to dust and the animals returneb to dust since they were formed from the earth was this skin out on and taken off ir was it actually skin that they wore that was take to the ground to teturn to dust.,thank you so much for your responce. Blessings

Donna, my understanding is that Adam & Eve had natural skin just as we have (the epidermis, dermis & hypodermis), yet prior to their downfall into sin, that skin, as all their organs, would have never corrupted to bring on sickness, disease or death.

With the inception of sin into their lives, their conviction of it, & subsequent attempt to hide from God, showed that that sin also brought the sense of bodily shame, which they never had before. The eyes & minds of those once pure & holy were now subject to the effects of sin, & one of those effects was the sense of shame & need for covering. They initially used fig leaves for covering but the Lord gave them something more durable by way of animal skins. And this in the larger picture showed them that animals could now also be killed, whether for their skin/fur value or later on, in sacrifice & for food.