It came out in yesterday’s newspapers: scientists have introduced human stem cells into monkey embryos, which have survived and grown for two weeks. Commentators say this could lead to future success, where such a hybrid could be grown into a living being, for the purposes of medical research and human organ farming. This research was […]
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:2-3) This was a common […]
There are many researchers who could do a far better job of this Babel passage than I. But I’ll have a go at a few comments. “All the people were of one language.” Why did this require divine intervention? In time, through natural dispersion, the people would have spread, and the languages would have evolved […]
There are claims that Genesis was edited some time after Moses, even as late as the Second Temple era. When we look at the movements of people in Genesis ten, we could ask whether all the movements listed in those chapters had already occurred by the time of Moses? I think the answer to this […]
“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body […]