That wasn’t going to “work” if Genesis continued to be interpreted as plain historical narrative, with creation in six days and a worldwide flood. A workaround of Genesis was needed.

Robinson derives this lesson from Genesis 2:9, finding it in the second story of Creation. God, designing Eden, puts in trees. The first thing the verse tells us is that they’re “pleasant to ...

Genesis 2 places the creation of man front and center. As we said last week, you need to know the literary genre of what you are reading. The first thing you should know is that, appearances aside ...

PETA has given the Bible's Book of Genesis a 'vegan' makeover, using ChatGPT to recreate the story and 'send a can’t-be-missed animal rights message filled with vegan teachings.' ...

After the account of the creation which is given in the first chapter, there appears in Genesis 2:4 an expression which introduces the remaining parts of the book.

In Genesis 1 and 2 of the Bible there are two different versions of the story. Chapter 1 seems to say that God created humans, both male and female, at the same time. This seems to me to put the ...

Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church. “It ...