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© 2025. The Book of Genesis  contains mostly historical accounts, but it also includes the origin  of laws that God later gave to the Hebrews in their scriptures . One prohibited eating meat with blood in it ( Genesis 9:4 , and later Deuteronomy 12:23), another commanded circumcising their males ( Genesis 17:10-14 , and later Leviticus 12:3). Although God blessed the 7th Day of the week, Saturday, in Genesis 2:3  it was later given to the Hebrews to observe as their Sabbath D

© 2025. Only God could have authentically originated  the creation account in Genesis 1 because it started in the "beginning" before humans existed. The majestic literary descriptive style of vv1,3-4,6,9,11,14,20,24,26 and first-person  verb tense used by God in vv26,29-30 suggest this was God's  own  creation account.  However, much of this account was recorded in third person (eg., “And God said”…) so God must have revealed it to a human who preserved it (below) . God’s

© 2025. The commentary below explains the unrecorded science behind the “beginning” in Genesis 1, v1 that includes modern astronomical discoveries about how the universe and our solar system began.  A preceding section, Authorship of the Hebrew Law, presented substantial evidence from scripture, archaeology, Hebrew writing style, and ancient history that Moses originally recorded the biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and much of Deuteronomy during the H

© 2025. Introduction to the Six Days: God’s six workdays and His day of rest afterwards from all of His labor (Genesis 2:2-3) are called "creation week" by theologians.   According to the Christian Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed (internet), God the Father Almighty created the heavens and the earth * - from nothing apparently “by the breath of His mouth” (Psalm 33:6). Modern astronomy includes that its initial creation left the earth as a barren, rocky planet from the so

© 2025. Genesis 2 is sometimes referred to as a "second" creation account.  It provided additional details  about Genesis 1 but critics claim the two accounts conflict so attention is given to their specific objections. This commentary carefully covers the account details and explains how it is consistent with Genesis 1 and also Genesis 3.    Genesis 2:1-3 completed Genesis 1, so the Genesis 2 account actually began with v4  and this is explained in the commentary below. Ver

Genesis 3 was the pivotal section in the bible for mankind.  God gave the human couple He recently created a simple test of their loyalty to Him for His goodness to them.   He forbade  them to eat fruit from one particular tree in the Garden that was previously described in Genesis 2. This account recorded how they were tempted to eat the forbidden fruit and what they did. The reason for this test is explained in Topical note 10, “ Why God created the physical universe   an

© 2025. This section first describes the family lives of Adam and Eve and their early descendants.  A summary of the information trail from the originators of the accounts for Genesis 1-11 into modern bibles is explained after Highlights of Genesis 4 . These topics are followed by a short history of the bible and a brief summary of the later chapters of Genesis. Origin and Authorship of Genesis 4 and 5. Genesis 4  smoothly continues the account of Genesis 3 but “the L

© 2025. 1. Scientific bias: conventional science vs creation science. The news media and even our judicial system teach society that the Genesis 1 creation account has been disproved by modern science. However, this bible study provides evidence that modern science hasn’t disproved the early accounts in Genesis. After decades of intense research with data collected from hi-tech scientific instruments, huge telescopes, and amazing space probes, these science "expe

© 2025. Intro- This Topical note concentrates on Homo erectus. "Neanderthal Man" properly called Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and "modern man" or Homo sapiens sapiens have more coverage in Topical note 3B.      Conventional science teaches the earliest humans on Earth gradually  evolved  from apes over millions of years  in southern Africa and then migrated away to populate other continents. This conflicts with the accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2 that state God suddenly

© 2025. Archaeology confirms the most ancient post-Flood  cities that today boast of being the “world’s oldest” are found in the Middle East {17}.  They’re not far from where Genesis 8 records Noah's ark landed high in the mountains of Ararat in present eastern Turkey after the global Flood  (Topical note 4) that was described in Genesis 6:13-8:22. These oldest cities have radiocarbon dates of several thousand years ago (below).          Human settlements before Noah’s Flood:

© 2025. Today’s land animals, birds, and creatures descended from those kept in Noah's ark.  God caused mating pairs of every kind of bird, land animal, and land creature to come to Noah’s Ark   (Genesis 6:19-20) and they were taken in by Noah’s family to survive during the one-year Flood.  They were released afterward and migrated worldwide to fill the earth.  However, marine mammals and reptiles including whales, porpoises, sea turtles, and the ancient marine reptiles would

© 2025. 4. God used the global Flood to repopulate the earth with less violent life forms He chose.     This Topical Note on Noah’s Flood describes the ark, the geology behind the Flood, the origin of Earth’s plate tectonics, and the Ice Age that followed.  Then these objections that are often raised about the reality of Noah’s global Flood are answered:   “It was impossible for primitive ‘cave men’ to build the huge ark.” "The animals on the ark were too large and nume

© 2025. A critique  of evolutionary speciation theory and its promotion as factual by conventional scientists. General evolution alleges that random chemical reactions originated primitive life forms on Earth . These then evolved  into more advanced life forms over eons of time by a process called evolutionary   speciation (described below).  However, n o evidence whatever  shows that random chemical reactions originated even a “simple” bacterial cell. And likewise, evolut

© 2025. Dating rocks: Some exposed rocks date from the "beginning" when Earth was created.   However, much of the earth’s accessible surface rock was recycled by erosion, reconsolidation, subduction, remelting, and volcanism so it has a variety of ages since it last solidified.  These can make choosing a rock sample that is suitable to date radiometricaly challenging. Creation scientists have showed even isochron radiometric dating can produce widely varying dates for differ

© 2025. 8 .  The age of the universe and our solar system: After the explosive event that created the universe, the early forms of today's luminous celestial bodies near our part of the Milky Way galaxy would have been packed more closely together than today. So, their newly created light would have reached the early earth quickly.   However, as matter rapidly spread apart as the universe expanded, light rays from these luminous objects would have remained in touch with the

Genesis 1:1 stated “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth", but without explaining why.  So, why did God do this?     By using various bible verses theologians composed the following story about why God created the physical universe with intelligent life-    Before God created the universe heaven was filled with angels He had created and Lucifer *  was God’s most powerful, talented, and highest-ranking angel.  However, he desired to be worshipped like God by