From our point of view many thousands of years later it is hard to comprehend the evil that existed in Sodom. In Genesis 18, the Lord and Abraham have a conversation about the fate of Sodom and there are things not stated, which are understood when...
Circumcision is a strangely weird idea. It seems out of place in today's world, and seems to belong to an ancient time. And yet, in the ancient world it was also an unusual idea, not commonplace at all. So how did it even get going,...
Going through Genesis in detail this year for the Bible videos caused me to visit a question of curiosity. Abraham is promised a son by God, and before he is divinely given Isaac, he fathers Ishmael with a slave wife. The way it is sometimes preached is...
The covenant that the Lord makes with Abraham in Genesis 15 is unusual because it is a one-sided covenant between two groups. Like a contract, a covenant has two parties, both who give and receive in participation with the arrangement. Usually a greater party makes a...
In Genesis 14 there are two stories told, but joined together by the characters of Lot and Abraham. Initially there is a battle between four invading kings, against five local kings including the King of Sodom, the city in which Lot was living. The four foreign...
If you were presented with a piece of cake like in the photo, which piece would you choose? A child would automatically choose the biggest piece for themselves. Most adults would be more thoughtful, and would choose a smaller piece, but would WANT the bigger piece. In...
We all know the story of Babel in Genesis 11. The people were unified in purpose and the Lord needed to mess up their languages so that they would not achieve what they set out to achieve. The Lord confused their languages and they were...
Very little is told to us in the Bible about life before the flood, but from Genesis 4 and snippets in Genesis 5 we can glean some information. Additionally the flood story shows us what skills, ability and knowledge Noah and his family had, which...
The story of Noah's ark in Genesis 6-9 is a story where God rescues people from a wicked world, and recreates the world to make it new again. The only people who survived were those who boarded the vessel of salvation, Noah's ark. There is an...
Enoch seems like one of those Bible characters so distant to us, so different to us, and so close to God. We see the briefest of mentions in Genesis 5. A big list of names is given off, and when Enoch is mentioned it pauses...
