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14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field;on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. - Genesis 3:14 This verse has me puzzling over one thing. When we read about the snake in the garden, everyone … Continue reading The Serpent’s Curse: A Dive into Genesis 3:14
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. - Genesis 3:7 I'm kind of puzzled by this. I get it, they're eyes were opened when they ate the forbidden fruit, but with all the different ways to make … Continue reading The Mystery of Adam and Eve’s Clothing
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” Genesis is my most favourite book of the bible and I've read it through hundreds of times. The Creation story … Continue reading Exploring the Mystery of Water Above the Sky
16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. 17 Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the … Continue reading The Certainty of God’s Promises
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” For as long as I can remember, growing up, I’d had a panic attack every single time I heard of an asteroid or meteor heading in Earth’s direction. With the Earth being round and … Continue reading Reflection on Genesis 8:22
The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in. Every time I read this, and I’ve lost count how many times I have read this in my life, I’d often wondered how he fed the animals, not so much those that … Continue reading Reflections on Genesis 7:16
So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out God gave Noah specific instructions on how to build an Ark as well as how to stock it and who and what to bring. Noah was lucky as he knew what was to come, so … Continue reading Reflections on Genesis 6:14
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you When I read Matthew 5:44, I struggled with this. The idea of loving your enemies, I find extremely challenging because of my own past. With years of being bullied, as well as by members of my own family, but also other … Continue reading Reflections on Matthew 5:44
"All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”I find this interesting. What it brings to mind are the money making schemes in the modern world. How many times have you seen an Ad whilst watching YouTube, and in that Ad, some so-called rich guy is standing in … Continue reading Reflections on Matthew 4:9
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. When I read this verse, Revelations comes to mind. Too many to mention, but a list can be found here (amongst verses from other books of the … Continue reading Reflections on Matthew 3:12
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