Difficulties

1:1 - Does the Bible teach that God created the universe or just the Planet Earth? 1:1 - Did the Jews steal their creation and flood story from the Enuma Elish? 1:1 - Does the Bible teach creatio ex nihilo (or a creation out of nothing)? 1:3 - How could God create light after the creation of the Earth? 1:6 - Does Genesis teach a three-story universe? 1:9 - Did water cover the early Earth? 1:12 - Does Genesis record the existence of life out of order? 1:14 - Does Genesis teach that the sun and moon were created after the Earth? 1:21 - Why doesn’t the Bible mention dinosaurs? 1:26 - Does this passage prove the Trinity? 1:28 - Does this passage justify deforestation, pollution, and animal cruelty? 1:29-30 - Does this passage claim that lions and tigers were vegetarians? 2:2-3 - Why does God need to rest? 2:4 - Why does the creation story repeat itself? 2:10-14 - Are these mythical rivers? 2:17 - Did death really begin at the fall of humans? 2:18 - Does this verse teach that women are inferior to men being their “helpers”? 2:18 - Are women merely a “helper” for men? 2:19 - Were animals created after the first humans? 3:1 - Did Adam and Eve really talk to a snake? 3:9 - Is God all-knowing or not? 3:15 - Is this the first prophecy of Jesus? 3:15 - Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view of Mary as co-redemptrix with Christ? 3:16 - Does this passage sanction men ruling over women? 4:3-5 - Was Abel’s sacrifice better because it was a blood sacrifice? 4:14-17 - Where did Cain get his wife, and why was he afraid of other people, if he was the only person alive on Earth? 5:5 - Did these people really live this long? 6:3 - Do humans really live for 120 years? 6:4 - Who or what were the Nephilim? 6:6 - Did God make a mistake in creating mankind? 8:1 - Did God forget Noah? 9:13 - Does this passage imply that rainbows began during the time of Noah? 9:21-25 - Did Ham rape Noah? 9:26-27 - Does this predict that the Messiah would come from the Semitic people (i.e. the descendants of Shem)? 11:1-9 - Did ancient humans really build the Tower of Babel? 14:17-20 - Does Melchizedek foreshadow the work of Christ as high priest? (c.f. Heb. 5:1-6; 7:1-28) 16:1-2 - Isn’t this odd that Sarai would want Abraham to impregnate Hagar? 17:10 - Isn’t circumcision a cruel and unusual act? 21:32-34 - Were the Philistines around at this time or not (c.f. Gen. 26:1-18)? 22:1-19 - Why did God command a human sacrifice? 22:1 - Why would God test Abraham if he is all-knowing? 22:2 - Why does Genesis 22 refer to Isaac as Abraham’s “only son”? 26:4-5 - Is the Abrahamic Covenant still operative today? –or Did the Jews forfeit these blessings because of their rejection of Christ? 27 - Why would God bless Jacob, rather than Esau, when Jacob lied and deceived to get the deathbed will? 36:31 - How could Moses write this before the monarchy? 37-50 - What are the parallels between Joseph and Jesus? Does this story prefigure Jesus? 37-50 - Is the story of Joseph a myth? 49:10 - Was Jacob predicting Jesus in this passage?