Did God say not to eat of any of the trees?” When the woman correctly states what God commanded, the devil then proceeds to sow motivational doubts. Did God impose that prohibition because it is ...
Genesis 2 tells us the story of Adam, Eden and the creation of Eve — a narrative brought to life in Jan Brueghel’s vivid ...
Access to divine life is cut off by man’s choice. Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger ...
Professor Elizabeth Polczer, a biblical scholar at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, believes the Bible is the result of ...
135 A.D. "In Genesis it says, `And God tested Abraham ... But even if it were found nowhere in the Old Testament writings, the authority of the Catholic Church which is clear on this point is ...
This information is found in the first book of the Old Testament, Genesis, which states: In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. — Genesis 1:1 As well as creating the world and ...
Genesis 11 is the story of how humans soon ... Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books they shared with Jews. As for the New Testament, its current twenty ...
Life had weathered him. In 1948, on the heels of WWII, Winston Churchill famously said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The Bible contains many such men who didn’t ...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s first book, “The Silmarillion,” starts out very much like the Old Testament’s Book of Genesis, and continues on after the “creation story” into other early tales of me ...