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…continued Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 7)
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth …

I recently got to look at a common science text for home schooling Christian parents.  Homeschooling is a wonderful thing when done correctly, and the families I know are raising exceptional children.  In fact, the best science program I have found so far is this hands on science teacher who sells kits online, teaches over the Internet to provide real experiments and real understanding of the universe in which we live.  So, I was interested when of the parents let me see the science book that they were using.  It turns out that this was from a different curriculum than the one I expected.

I opened the book at random, and simply read two examples of proofs against evolution.  The first proof was …

One of my early premises of Geocreationism is that Jesus Himself was present for Creation.  Even the very first verse of the Bible says so.
Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
As I discussed in my post on Genesis 1:1a, the word for God is Elohim, a plural form of the one God.  It represents both God’s unequaled majesty, as well the Trinity, using a word that is both plural and singular at the same time.  John confirms this in his gospel in John 1:1-3, and Solomon describes why Jesus was there in Proverbs 8:22-26.  In fact, Solomon even goes on to give Jesus a voice in Proverbs 8:27-30a.  Here, …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 6)
 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
A loving act amidst their punishment.  It is curious that God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve.  The skins would have come from an animal.  Is it possible God killed a couple of animals for them?  I think He did.  Notice earlier in the chapter:
 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 5)
 20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
I happened upon an interesting commentary on this vers at Accuracy In Genesis.  How Big is All?  Here is the beginning of that article:
For a first example look at Genesis 3:20 where per the King James Version Adam pronounces Eve as

“the mother of all living”How big is this all ? Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?

Was she “mother nature” ?Or …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 4)

After disciplining the serpent, then Eve, God now turns to Adam, whom God had interrogated first on the matter…
 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
       “Cursed is the ground because of you;
       through painful toil you will eat of it
       all the days of your life.
Now this is harsh.  God had given him a garden, in which he had all the food he ever needed.  Of course, it did require tending, enough so that …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 3)

At this point, God started with Adam.  “What have you done?” Adam refers to God to Eve.  Eve refers God to Satan.  God punishes Satan… but now He comes back to Eve.  I’d be like, “Uh oh.”
 16 To the woman he said,
       “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
       with pain you will give birth to children.
       Your desire will be for your husband,
       and he will rule over you.”
For those who use 1 Cor 15:21 and Romans 5:12 as evidence that there was no death before sin, many …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 2)
 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
       “Cursed are you above all the livestock
       and all the wild animals!
       You will crawl on your belly
       and you will eat dust
       all the days of your life.
In my post Reconciling Evolution with Scripture (Part 4), I describe a concept of evolution that I am increasingly inclined to believe.  Basically, scientists are correct about species descending from other species.  However, the transitions did not happen by random mutation; …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 1)
 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Notice that scripture doesn’t question whether eating the fruit was desirable for gaining wisdom.  After all, Adam and …

 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Several things to notice.

First, the serpent was not the only crafty wild animal the LORD God had made… just the most.  I see this as an interesting precursor to later in Genesis, when the Sons of God slept with the Daughters of Man.  Angels were always able to possess to living beings.  However, at some point, possession of animals appears to have ended.  I suspect (but am not sure of) this, not because of others’ commentary I have read, but because when …