Genesis 3:1 – "serpent" or "shining one"?
In Genesis 3 the Hebrew word ‘nachash’ meaning the shining one has been rendered ‘snake’ or ‘serpent’. What possible ground is there for such renditions?
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GENESIS: Chapter 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtil…
GENESIS: Chapter 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he…
How Could Abraham receive Canaan as "an everlasting possession", as promised in Genesis 17:8?
“The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:8, NIV)
In the Torah, there’s no real development on …
Image vs likeness in Genesis 1:26
Genesis 1:26 New International Version
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over a…
Are Genesis 15 and 17 two different covenants with Abram/Abraham?
God made a covenant with Abram in Genesis 15, specifically Verse 18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrate…
Who was walking with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3?
Genesis 3:8 (NASB)
“They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.”
Was it Jesus Christ who…
In Light of Deuteronomy 4:15 & John 4:24 how to understand the image and likeness in Genesis 1:26? [duplicate]
We are initial told that when God created humankind he made him in his image and likeness.
Genesis 1:26 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over th…
How does the Noah’s Ark narrative relate to the Gilgamesh flood account?
How does the Noah’s Ark narrative relate to other the Gilgamesh flood account?
For reference, the Biblical flood account is in Genesis 6-10 and the Gilgamesh flood account is on Tablet XI. The British Museum holds a tablet with the Atrah…
Could there be some deeper/Spiritual meaning why darkness was created ahead of light in Genesis 1:2?
KJV Genesis 1 : 2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Throughout the Bible darkness is depicted and mostly associated with evil th…
Why does the Bible say that Abraham sacrificed his "only-begotten son"?
Why does the Bible say that Abraham sacrificed his “only-begotten son” (Heb. 11:17, Gen. 22:2) despite the fact that Isaac had a step-brother Ishmael who was 14 years older than Isaac and was in fact the first-born son of Abraham?
Does Genesis’s creation account depict creation "ex nihilo"?
I had once heard that one of the remarkable thing about the creation account in Genesis, as compared to the other creation accounts of the cultures of the surrounding area is that God creates the universe out of nothing, or ‘ex nihilio’; w…
(Genesis 4:7) What is Cain Ruling Over? Sin? The Door?
So I was spending some time with the Hebrew under the Cain and Abel narrative in Genesis 4. I noticed a peculiarity in the Hebrew in God’s instructions to Cain after his offering was rejected. I think it may challenge the way that the th…