Month: August 2018

Heavens to Betsy!

In many places in the bible it is indicated that Heaven is ‘above the Earth’, that God looks ‘down’ upon us, and of course Jesus ‘rose’ to Heaven after his resurrection, so it is obviously somewhere in outer space, although so far our explorations have not found it.  But it...

The biblical Flood

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument that The Flood happens, exactly as described in Genesis, Chapters 6, 7 & 8, and breeding pairs of every animal have been safely returned to their homelands. Perhaps, given time, the pairs of giraffes, elands, zebras, wildebeests, etc., would reproduce and repopulate...

Religion

There have been literally thousands of religions in the history of the human race.  Until the coming of the three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all religions were pantheistic, each god with a different area of responsibility.  The concept of a single all-powerful god responsible for everything...