Bible Questions Answered

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope

that is in you, with meekness and fear; (1 Peter 3:15 NKJV)

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Medina, TN5-17-15

CAN THE BIBLE EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE RACES?

CAN THE BIBLE EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE RACES?

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Hitler’s book was full of his racist philosophy.

1924

“The German Fuhrer…has consistently sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.”

“The German Fuhrer…has consistently sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.”

Evolution and Ethics 1947, Sir Arthur Keith, pg. 230

Nature is always teaching us…that she is governed by the principle of selection: that victory is to the strong and the weak must go to the wall…war is therefore the unalterable law of the whole of life – the prerequisite for the natural selection of the strong and the precedent for the elimination of the weak…all creation is subject to this law; no one can avoid it…since life on earth began struggle has been the very essence of existence…

Hitler’s speech to officer cadets, June 22, 1944

Nature is always teaching us…that she is governed by the principle of selection: that victory is to the strong and the weak must go to the wall…war is therefore the unalterable law of the whole of life – the prerequisite for the natural selection of the strong and the precedent for the elimination of the weak…all creation is subject to this law; no one can avoid it…since life on earth began struggle has been the very essence of existence…

Hitler’s speech to officer cadets, June 22, 1944

CAN THE BIBLE EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE RACES?

CAN THE BIBLE EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE RACES?

The First Man and Woman…

• And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45 NKJV)

• And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. (Genesis 3:20 NKJV)

God that made the world…hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth…

Acts 17:24,26 KJV

Where did Cain get his wife?Where did Cain get his wife?

Was she from a different race?Was she from a different race?

Adam did not beget Cain, Able and Seth only. Adam did not beget Cain, Able and Seth only.

Genesis 5:4 informs us: “And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were 800 years. And he fathered sons and daughters.”

Genesis 5:4 informs us: “And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were 800 years. And he fathered sons and daughters.”

The historian Josephus wrote:

“The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.”

Flavius Joseph (Translated by William Whiston) The Complete Works of Josephus, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1981, pg. 27

The historian Josephus wrote:

“The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.”

Flavius Joseph (Translated by William Whiston) The Complete Works of Josephus, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1981, pg. 27

Can you marry your relation?Can you marry your relation?

Yes – So long as you marry a human.Yes – So long as you marry a human.

Can you legally marry a close blood relative?Can you legally marry a close blood relative?It’s not legal now – but it used to be.It’s not legal now – but it used to be.

“…but where there is no law there is no transgression.”

Romans 4:15

“…but where there is no law there is no transgression.”

Romans 4:15

God that made the world…hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth…

Acts 17:24,26 KJV

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We all have the same skin color

MELANINMELANIN

Just different amounts of it!

Multiple Gene (Polygenic) Inheritance

Caucasian Eye Asian Eye

Fat LayerFat Layer

Human Genome ProjectHuman Genome Project

The biggest difference genetically between even the most diverse “races” amounts to a trifling .012%Cameron & Wycoff, “The Destructive Nature of the Term Race: Growing Beyond a False Paradigm,” pg. 277-285

The biggest difference genetically between even the most diverse “races” amounts to a trifling .012%Cameron & Wycoff, “The Destructive Nature of the Term Race: Growing Beyond a False Paradigm,” pg. 277-285

Skin ColorHair ColorEye Fat Layer

Tower of BabelTower of Babel

The prohibition against intermarriage has always been spiritual, not physical.

The prohibition against intermarriage has always been spiritual, not physical.

Rahab – married an Israelite.Rahab – married an Israelite.

Ruth – married Boaz.Ruth – married Boaz.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:39

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

II Corinthians 6:14

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

II Corinthians 6:14 The only possible inter-racial marriage.

The only possible inter-racial marriage.

…Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation…

Revelation 5:9

…Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation…

Revelation 5:9

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13:35

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13:35

QUESTION: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT DINOSAURS?

Where is the word dinosaur mentioned in the Bible?

Origin of Dinosaurs

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. . . .

And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:25, 31

Biblical Model

The Bible and Evidence

1. Dinosaurs were created after their kind (no intermediates)

2. Dinosaurs and people lived at the same time

The Biblical model makes two claims:

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Job And The Animals

• Lions (38:39-40)• Raven (38:41)• Wild mountain goats and deer

(39:1-4)• Wild donkey (39:5-8)• Wild ox (39:9-12)• Ostrich (39:13-18)• Horse (39:19-25)• Hawk and eagle (39:26-30)• Behemoth (40:15-24)• Leviathan (41:1-34)

Dinosaurs in the Bible?

"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar;  the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.” (NIV)

Job 40:15-18Job 40:15-18

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“Behemoth”(Job 40:15)

Description Hippo/Elephant Dinosaur

Made along with Job (40:15)

Herbivorous (40:15b)

Muscular (40:16)

Noteworthy tail (40:17a)

Tight sinews (40:17b)

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“Behemoth”(Job 40:15)

Description Hippo/Elephant Dinosaur

Strong bones (40:18)

Massive size (40:19a)

Invincible (40:19b)

Lives near water (40:21-22)

Fearless (40:23-24)

Dinosaurs in the Bible?Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?... Around his teeth there is terror. His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal…They clasp each other and cannot be separated. His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning torches;...The sword that reaches him cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him. (NIV)

Job 41:1-34Job 41:1-34

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“Leviathan”(Job 3:8; 41:1; Psa. 74:14; 104:26; Isa. 27:1)

Description Crocodile Dinosaur

Uncatchable and untamable (41:1-6)

Impenetrable hide and underbelly (41:7, 13, 15-17, 23, 26-30)

Invincible and terrifying (41:8-10a)

Mighty limbs (41:12)

Terrible teeth (41:14)

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“Leviathan”(Job 3:8; 41:1; Psa. 74:14; 104:26; Isa. 27:1)

Description Crocodile Dinosaur

Fiery breath (41:18-21)

Strong neck (41:22)

Solid heart (41:24)

Raises up (41:25)

Imposing size (41:25, 34)

Leaves a churning wake in the water (41:31-32)

Fearless (41:33)

Leviathan

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Job 41:19

Did Noah take dinosaurs on the ark?

And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. (Genesis 6:19)

Dinosaurs were on the ark, because the Bible tells us that every kind of air-breathing, land-dwelling animal went aboard.

Dinosaurs and the FloodAnd of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Genesis 6:20

Dinosaurs were on the Ark and they came off the Ark

Teaching About the Ark

What did the Ark look like?

Teaching About the Ark450 feet long 75 feet wide 45 feet tall

How could Noah put all the BIG dinosaurs on the Ark?

He took the baby animals

The Ark

Only about 600 species of dinosaurs

Bible’s “kind” broader than biology’s “species”

Many dinosaurs were relatively small in size

Larger dinosaurs represented by younger and smaller specimens

The ark was very large

Question

If a meteor did not cause the dinosaurs to become extinct 65 million years ago and dinosaurs cannot evolve into birds, what

happened to them?

Did they all die in the Genesis Flood?

David Eakin

The Real Reason Dinosaurs Became

Extinct

Teaching About Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were created after their kind (there are no intermediates)

Dinosaurs lived at the same time as people Many historical accounts of dragons Pictures on canyon walls Unfossilized dinosaur bones Mummified dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were on the Ark Many dinosaurs died in the Flood Dinosaurs are referred to in the Bible (behemoth)

Dinosaurs existed

Sources1. Answers In Genesis2. Institute of Creation Research3. J.P. Rushton, professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario, Lond,

Ontario, Canada, Race, Evolution and Behavior, www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm.See all footnotes

4. S.J. Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Belknap-Harvard Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977, 127–128.See all footnotes

5. Missing links with mankind in early dawn of history, New York Tribune, p. 11, February 10, 1924.See all footnotes

6. D. Monaghan, The body-snatchers, The Bulletin, November 12, 1991, pp. 30–38; Blacks slain for science’s white superiority theory, The Daily Telegraph Mirror, April 26, 1994.See all footnotes

7. For more information on the fallacious nature of this idea, see answersingenesis.org/go/embryonic.See all footnotes

8. E. Haeckel, The History of Creation, 1876, 363–363.See all footnotes9. J. Bergman, Ota Benga: the man who was put on display in the zoo! Creation

16(1):48–50, 1993.See all footnotes10.Keane, Arthur H.J., “Anthropological Curiosities - The Pygmies of the World”.

Scientific American Supplement 64, no. 1650 (August 17, 1907): 99.See all footnotes

11.This is not to say that evolution is the cause of racism. Sin is the cause of racism. However, Darwinian evolution fueled a particular form of racism.See all footnotes

Sources1. R.L. Hotz, Race has no basis in biology, researchers say, Cincinnati Enquirer, p. A3,

February 20, 1997.See all footnotes2. We’re all the same, ABC News, September 10, 1998,

www.abcnews.com/sections/science/ DyeHard/dye72.html.See all footnotes3. S.C. Cameron and S.M. Wycoff, The destructive nature of the term race: growing

beyond a false paradigm, Journal of Counseling & Development, 76:277–285, 1998.See all footnotes

4. N. Angier, Do races differ? Not really, DNA shows, New York Times web, Aug. 22, 2000.See all footnotes

5. In the original, Ezra 9:2 refers to “seed,” Romans 9:3 to “kinsmen according to the flesh.”See all footnotes

6. For more on this teaching, see chapter 6, Cain’s Wife—Who Was She? See all footnotes

7. Contrary to popular belief, mankind does not share an apelike ancestor with other primates. To find out the truth behind the alleged apemen, visit answersingenesis.org/go/anthropology.See all footnotes

8. W.C. Kaiser, Jr. et al., Hard Sayings of the Bible, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1996, 150.See all footnotes

9. Ref. 17, 644.See all footnotes10.J.C. Gutin, End of the rainbow, Discover, pp. 72–73, November 1994.

See all footnotes11.Ref. 12.See all footnotes12.Ref. 13.See all footnotes13.Ref. 11.See all footnotes14.Ibid.See all footnotes

Sources• Of course, melanin is not the only factor that determines skin shade: blood vessels

close to the skin can produce a reddish tinge, while extra layers of adipose tissue (fat) in the skin yield a yellowish tinge. Exposure to the sun can cause increased melanin production, thus darkening skin, but only to a certain point. Other pigments also affect skin shade but generally have very little bearing on how light or dark the skin will be. The major provider of skin color is melanin.See all footnotes

• Ackerman, Histopathologic Diagnosis of Skin Diseases, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1978, 44; Lever and Schamberg-Lever, Histopathology of the Skin, 7th Ed., J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1990, 18–20.See all footnotes

• The actual genetics involved are much more complicated than this simplified explanation. There are 4 to 6 genes with multiples alleles (versions) of each gene that operate under incomplete dominance, that is, they work together to produce an individual’s particular skin shade. However, simplifying the explanation does not take away from the point being made.See all footnotes

• Albinism results from a genetic mutation which prevents the usual production of melanin.See all footnotes

• For more information, see answersingenesis.org/go/red-hair.See all footnotes• As they went, the family groups took with them the knowledge that had been

passed to them about the creation and Flood events. Although these accounts have been changed over time, they reflect the true account found in the Bible. For more information, see answersingenesis.org/go/legends.See all footnotes

• This assumes that each trait is independently inherited, which may not always be the case. Although there are many instances in which a certain trait shows up in a person of a different ethnic group (e.g., almond-shaped eyes in a woman with very dark skin, or blue eyes in a man with tightly curled brown hair and tan skin).See all footnotes

Sources• For more on how selection and mutations operate, see chapter 22 in this book.See all footnotes• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin.See all footnotes• See note on Acts 17:26, in John Gill, D.D., An exposition of the Old and New Testament, London:

printed for Mathews and Leigh, 18 Strand, by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court, 1809. Edited, revised, and updated by Larry Pierce, 1994–1995 for Online Bible CD-ROM.See all footnotes

• It is true that in some exceptional instances when a Christian has married a non-Christian, the non-Christian spouse, by the grace of God, has become a Christian. This is a praise point but it does not negate the fact that Scripture indicates that it should not have been entered into in the first place. This does not mean that the marriage is not actually valid, nor does it dilute the responsibilities of the marital union—see also 1 Corinthians 7:12–14, where the context is of one spouse becoming a Christian after marriage.See all footnotes

• For more on this topic, see The Genesis of a Legacy by Ken Ham and Steve Ham, available from www.answersbookstore.com.See all footnotes

• See Genesis 9:18–27. Canaan, the youngest of Ham’s sons, received Noah’s curse. Why? The descendants of Canaan were some of the wickedest people on earth. For example, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were judged for their sexual immorality and rebellion. It may be that Ham’s actions toward his father (Genesis 9:22) had sexual connotations, and Noah saw this same sin problem in Canaan and understood that Canaan’s descendants would also act in these sinful ways. (The Bible clearly teaches that the unconfessed sin of one generation is often greater in the next generation.) The curse on Canaan has nothing to do with skin color but rather serves as a warning to fathers to train their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We need to deal with our own sin problems and train our children to deal with theirs.See all footnotes

• For example: “We know the circumstances under which the posterity of Cain (and later of Ham) were cursed with what we call Negroid racial characteristics” (Bruce McConkie, Apostle of the Mormon Council of 12, Mormon Doctrine, p. 554, 1958); “The curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the black race” (The Golden Age, The Watchtower [now called Awake!], p. 702, July 24, 1929).See all footnotes

• Examples of such “mixed marriages” and their negative consequences can be seen in Nehemiah 9 and Nehemiah 10, and Numbers 25.