Darwin insisted that new variations, the raw materials for natural selection, originated without purpose or direction, but he did not know their source. In his book On the Origin of Species, he started chapter 5 with this: “I HAVE hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations...were due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our…
King Solomon appointed thousands of men to oversee the people working on building the temple in Jerusalem. Some were supervising the men working on building the temple itself and others were supervising the men working on the building materials outside the city. There are 6 relevant verses that explain the full picture. 1 Kings 5:16 says "beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were…
The Gospel of Peter is a pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) manuscript that claims to be written by the Apostle Peter. The earliest surviving manuscript dates from the 8th or 9th century. It contains 60 verses and covers events at the end of Jesus’ life. However, the original is thought to have been written c. AD 150, meaning it could not have been written by…
Matthew records Jesus saying that John the Baptist was the Elijah who was to come, while John seems to record John the Baptist denying it. The reason for this apparent inconsistency is a lack of contextualization by readers. Let’s first look at those verses. (Matthew 17:10-13) "The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”…
