Genesis, chapters one and two, present two accounts of creation. Many critics of the Bible (often, atheists) assume that they are contradictory. But there are many factors involved in interpreting ...

The Bible actually has more than one creation myth, and the one you're thinking of seems to have arisen not from ancient Israelite lore but from the central Asian steppes.

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Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

The biblical concept of imago Dei sets the Judeo-Christian narrative apart from other ancient origin stories. Recently, there have been discussions about the core identity of humankind—whether we are ...

It began not with a word, but a bang. That statement is as ambiguous as any in the Bible. The Psalms are confident about what happened; the universe was the work of the Lord: ‘Of old hast thou laid ...

PETERSBURG, Ky. -- How does Answers in Genesis, the Petersburg, Kentucky-based apologist for a literal reading of the Bible’s creation story, finance its operations? To put it simply, through a ...

In an ambitious new book, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible uses his knowledge of Scripture and science to contend that people can believe in both religion and evolution. “Faith & Fossils: The Bible, ...