I appreciate the promotion of Sabbath practice, but I find LeFebvre’s treatment of Old Testament history to be lacking.

Genesis does not tell us what Abraham believed about Yahweh prior to his call, so we have to go elsewhere for this information.

The genealogies of Genesis 5 & 11 teach a young humanity, and this lends itself toward a young earth.

The question remains why our average expectancy today, even with all the advances of modern medicine, is still just over half of that which God ordained it to be after the flood?

There is a long line of godly women preserving the covenant, stemming from God’s promise to Eve in Genesis 3:15.

It was not that a husband’s authority and a wife’s submission were introduced as a result of the fall (as some egalitarians claim happened in Genesis 3:16), but rather that this hierarchical relationship was part of the created order and was now frustrated by the fall.

Whether we will administer the death penalty is not something for man to decide.

There are several reasons to rethink this common reading of the Jacob story.

Covenants form the backbone of the Bible. It is therefore fascinating to observe how central the promise of “offspring” is to God’s covenants.

“All humans are made in the image of God.” We hear this phrase all the time, usually indicating that human life is valuable. But what does the phrase “image of God” actually mean?

The mark of Cain is one of those biblical curiosities that people sometimes ask about. This “mark” is often seen as a mystery, like Paul’s “thorn in the flesh.” While it is probably not that important that we know exactly what it was, people do wonder.

Genesis 6:1-4 fascinates many Bible readers because of the mysterious identity of both “the sons of God” and the Nephilim. Sadly, many modern theologians pay little attention to this passage because they hold the pedestrian view that “the sons of God” refers to the godly line of Seth. 

The first thing to say is that “knowing good and evil” does not refer to the possession of information, like one would “know” the capital of Belgium or the chemical components of a cell membrane. It is an active phrase, and refers to discernment between good and evil.

Everyone seems to want to a find a big chiasm in the Abraham narrative of Genesis. A perusal through the commentaries will reveal an array of options, but I must say I find none of them very satisfactory, since none cover the whole of the Abraham narrative.