The Creation of a Kingdom of Couples Instead of Individuals

From the story of Adam and Eve (the Second ADAM) to Noah and the Flood, we encounter universal problems linked to "human nature" -- the problematic character of human reason, speech, freedom, earthly desires, shame, guilt, anger, and peer pressure.

The stories focus on the complex relations between man and woman, husband and wife, parents and children, brother and brother, families and their descendants, tribal members and strangers – stories not so much about what happened as what always happens when humans are involved! But the first story in Genesis is completely different. It is about what could happen if humans lived according to the Creator’s “new way for humankind” – the way the Creator envisioned the First ADAM would live. Read the complete educational email at –

https://mailchi.mp/29fc30050dd0/the-creation-of-a-kingdom-of-couples-instead-of-individuals

Have You Noticed that the First Two Stories in Genesis are Very Different?

Most English translations have the ending of the first story and the beginning of the second in the wrong place.

● This is the last sentence of the first story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) -- These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. “Heaven” was the name of a “solid dome-like structure” and “earth” was the name of the “dry ground beneath the dome.” The earth could not exist without the dome being in place first.

● This is the first sentence of the second story (Genesis 2:4b-3:24) -- In the day that Yahweh the god made the earth and the heavens. Here the “earth” is made first and then the “heavens.” That sequence would have been impossible in the first story – and after that nothing else is said about the earth and the heavens. There are no references to Yahweh creating either of them in this story.

Continue reading about other differences at –

https://mailchi.mp/95ab732dbce5/have-you-noticed-that-the-first-two-stories-in-genesis-are-very-different

A New Ancient Standard for Determining Good or Evil Actions

If you live in the DFW area you have probably heard the news report about two adults who got into an argument over a stuffed animal at a “family friendly restaurant.” One of them pulled out a gun and started shooting – wounding a doctor who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I have no information about the crime other than what the media has reported, but things like this happen so often they have become the norm. Just in the DFW area over the past few weeks people have been shot because of road rage, teens getting into arguments, a man killing his girlfriend and her sister (and wounding an infant) on a college campus, etc. I am pretty sure that any of you can google “shootings” in your area and will find similar stories. Why are these things happening?

Without going into how things have changed in America since the end of World War II, I will simply tell you our conclusion.

The standards people use to govern their lives have changed!

Today the top standard for a growing number of individuals

places their personal appetites, desire and longings as their highest values.

Continue reading at –

https://mailchi.mp/0617de69d30b/a-new-ancient-standard-for-determining-good-or-evil-actions

Your meanings of two very important words in the Bible are probably wrong. Take a quick test and find out.

Below is the first verse in the 1769 Edition of the King James Version of Genesis 1:1.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Take a moment to think about what the underlined words mean to you. Below are the meanings I learned in Sunday School at a Baptist church when I was child.

1. heaven – The abode of God where all saved people go when they die.

2. earth – The planet we live on that orbits around the sun.

My preacher and Sunday School teachers would hold the King James Version of the Bible and tell us that it is “The Word of God” -- it contains words that came straight from God. Continue reading at -

https://mailchi.mp/8e64777f7c95/your-meanings-of-two-very-important-words-in-the-bible-are-probably-wrong-take-a-quick-test-and-find-out