On the sixth day of creation God created mankind. … in the image of God he created them; male (manly) and female (womanly) he created them.   (Genesis 1:27) How God created mankind, the man Adam, as spirit, soul and body was discussed in the study ‘God created mankind’.   (Genesis 2:7) God placed Adam in an […]

How God created heaven and earth was discussed in the two previous studies. During the sixth day of creation God said: Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…   (Genesis 1:26) God speaks here in the plural form ‘us’, i.e. He speaks here as the triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Until […]

The creation of heaven was discussed in the previous chapter. This chapter concerns the creation of the earth. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   (Genesis 1:1) The heavens: The spiritual, invisible world, not discernible with our senses. The earth: The planet upon which we live, the visible world. The apostle Paul […]

The Bible opens with the sentence: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   (Genesis 1:1) How creation came into being is not stated, but the Bible uses the word ‘heaven’ in three different contexts: The first heaven, the heaven we see when we look at the sky. The second heaven, also called […]

This study builds further upon the studies ‘God created mankind – Adam’ and ‘God created the woman – Eve’ from the study ‘The origin of the world’. God created the woman, Eve, because He did not want the man, Adam, to be alone. And He performed the first marriage, as it were, when He brought […]

This short study is meant to explain what is meant by Adam having become a living soul. More about the subject ‘life and death’ will be elaborated in a separate study. It is generally said that someone has died when the body no longer functions. The notions of life and death are treated differently in […]

How we read the Bible can be illustrated best by a simple drawing. The question is: “What do you see?”                     Look at the drawing carefully before clicking on the answer.   Print this study in PDF document: How do we read the Bible.

When they looking at this drawing some people say:     – an oval, with a piece missing. – an oval that has been cut in two. -an egg that is not complete. -two lines curving towards each other.       The last remark is what this is all about. It is simply the […]