Creation in Gen 2
- After describing the creation in chapter 1, why does Gen 2:5 say that there were no plants and herbs yet? (1)
- Does Gen 2:19 inform us that animals and birds were created after Adam and Ever were created? (2)
- How could the river Euphrates described in Gen 2:14 survive the flood? (3)
Creation in the Psalms
- Did God create the heavenly bodies with His word or with His finger (as according to Ps 8)?
- Do humans have dominion over all creation as the psalmist says? What about lions and sharks, (and for women, mice and spiders)
- Though nature has been marred, what aspects still inspire admiration?
Creation in the Book of Job
- When Job questions God's justice why does God silence him by pointing out the marvels of creation? (4)
- Why does Job keep quiet after all those embarrassing questions? Has he received his answer or is he cowed down?
Creation in the Prophets
- Why did the prophets keep reminding the people that their God was the creator God--the God, creator of heaven and earth? Why don't pastors refer to God like that today?
- Why did the sailors get so terrified when Jonah told them that he "was a Hebrew who worshipped The Lord God who had made the sea and the dry land?" (5)
Creation in the New Testament
- What gives one more right to possess: having made something or having current ownership of it?
- The angel in Rev 10:5,6 swore by the name of the one who had made heaven and earth: Is it all right to swear like that--testifying to God's creatorship?
- Why do you think nobody questioned the theory of creation till modern days? Or do you think some might have?
Some Answers
1. The words are those used for weeds and crops that came about after sin. See Gen 3:18.
2. The grammar can be translated "had (already) made."
3. Just because it had the same name does not mean it was the same river.
4. Justice and order in the physical world inspires confidence of justice and order in the moral world.
5. Hebrew comes from the word to "cross over," or "defect." See Jon 1:10.
