HCSB Study <strong>Bible</strong>s141:1 Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” 1:13 This all occured on the third day, literally,“And there was evening and there was morning, a third day (or, ‘a period of time’).2:07 From the dust of the ground, or, “from a lump of soil,” or, “from clods in the soil,” or, “from a clod of clay.”15The Apologetics Study <strong>Bible</strong>The Apologetics Study <strong>Bible</strong> helps today’s Christians better understand, defend, and proclaim their beliefs in an ageof increased moral and spiritual relativism. More than one hundred key questions and articles placed throughoutthe volume about faith, philosophy, history, the sciences, and other worldviews prompt a rewarding study experienceevery time. Highlights include an introduction to each <strong>Bible</strong> book focusing on apologetics issues within the book, andprofiles of historic Christian apologists from Justin Martyr to C. 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I havegiven every green plant for food.” And it wasso. 31 fGod saw all that He had made, and it wasvery good. Evening came, and then morning:the sixth day.So the heavens and the earth and everythingin them were completed. 2 fBy theseventh day, God completed His work thatHe had done, and He rested on the seventh and bone (also see Is 31:3). Because God is spirit, He isinvisible (Jn 1:18; Rm 1:20; Col 1:15; 1 Tm 1:17).2:2-3 “Rested” (shabat) does not imply fatigue but meansonly “ceased” because it is connected to the completionof the creation work.2:4-26 Chapter 2 is a second creation account only inthe sense that it gives a more detailed accounting, not acontradictory accounting. Chapter one provides a generaldescription, and chap. 2 is specific. Twofold creationTday from all His work that He had done. 3 -Godblessed the seventh day and declared it holy,for on it He rested from His work of creation.4 -These are the records of the heavens andthe earth, concerning their creation at thetime that the Lord God made the earth and theheavens. 5 -No shrub of the field had yet grownon the land, and no plant of the field had yetsprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rainon the land, and there was no man to workthe ground. 6 fBut water would come out of theground and water the entire surface of the land.7 fThen the Lord God formed the man out ofthe dust from the ground and breathedaccounts were common in ancient cosmogonies (e.g.,Babylonian Atrahasis). The differences in the order ofthe creation events are due to the narratives’ respectivepurposes. The first gives a loosely chronologicalaccount, gathering creation events into a discerniblepattern to show the symmetry of creation’s purpose.Chapter 2 is topical, focuses on the sixth day by expandingon the creation and the relationship of the man andwoman. Chapter 2 presupposes chap. 1 and does notAre the days of Genesis to be interpreted literally? by Ted Cabalhis question has stoked controversy among conservative Christians in recent times, but provenof little interest to theistic evolutionists and those rejecting Genesis as God’s inerrant word. Thedebate has been primarily between young and old earth creationists who believe God literally createdthe various kinds of living things (contra the common descent of Darwinism). Both sides hold thathumans have not descended from other species, and reject the atheism and macro-evolutionary theoryof neo-Darwinism.The two creationist camps, however, differ in interpreting the creation days of Genesis. Both sides understandthese days to be important in the relationship of the <strong>Bible</strong> to science. If the days were consecutive24-hour periods, and the earth was created on the first day, then calculations based on biblical genealogiesreveal the earth was created only thousands of years ago. If the days are either of indeterminate length ornon-consecutive, then the <strong>Bible</strong> does not reveal when the earth was created. Interestingly, both sides agree thegenealogies reveal Adam and Eve were specially created only thousands of years ago.Young earth creationists (YCs) interpret the days as 24-hour, consecutive periods for reasons suchas: (1) The days in Genesis chapter one are consecutively numbered and comprised of an “evening andmorning”; (2) Exodus 20:8-11 commands a literal week of six days work and one day rest based on God’soriginal creation/rest week: the two weeks are then of equal duration; and, (3) According to Rom. 5:12,“sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin,” but old earth creationism would haveanimal death entering the world before the sin of Adam and Eve.Old earth creationists (OCs) argue against 24-hour creation days for reasons such as: (1) The Hebrewword for “day” (yom) is used in different ways in the creation account: Gn 1:5 refers yom only to daytime(daylight), not nighttime, and Gn 2:4 literally translated speaks of “the yom that the Lord God made theearth and the heavens”; and (2) God’s rest on the seventh day has no evening and morning (Gen. 2:2-3),and Heb. 4:3-11 portrays this same Sabbath as continuing to the present day; and (3) a literal interpretationof Genesis chapter two precludes all its events taking place in 24 hours (e.g., Adam’s naming all thebirds and wild animals).Both sides believe they have strong, technical arguments favoring their interpretation and rebuttingthe other side. And debate regarding biblical interpretation has often led historically to a clearer understandingof God’s word. But it is also highly debatable whether this issue merits the rancor and divisiontoo often attending it. Some YCs accuse OCs of compromising the <strong>Bible</strong> with “evolutionary” science.Some OCs charge YCs with undermining biblical credibility by generating a false conflict between scienceand the Scriptures. Happily, one thing is not debatable among those who believe the <strong>Bible</strong>: evenif the correct interpretation of the creation days is not readily apparent in the present generation, the<strong>Bible</strong> can be trusted in every way. Debates about biblical interpretations should not be interpreted asthe failure of Holy Scripture.Sample Interiorthe breath of life into his nostrils,and the man became a living being.8 fThe Lord God planted a gardenGenesis 2:7ccording to modern-day psychics, this “breath ofAlife,” enables humans to exhibit supernatural abilities.Most people, however, do not know how to tap intothis power. Such a bizarre conclusion cannot be derivedfrom the text. A better interpretation is that the “breathof life” is simply the animating force of the body.in Eden, in the east, and there He placedthe man He had formed. 9 -The Lord God causedto grow out of the ground every tree pleasingin appearance and good for food, including thetree of life in the midst of the garden, as well asthe tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 -A river went out from Eden to water thegarden. From there it divided and became thesource of four rivers. 11 -The name of the first isPishon, which encircles the entire land of theHavilah, where there is gold. 12 -Gold from thatland is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.13 -The name of the second river is Gihon, whichencircles the entire land of Cush. 14 fThe nameof the third river is the Tigris, which flows tothe east of Assyria. And the fourth river is theEuphrates.15 -The Lord God took the man and placedhim in the garden of Eden to work it and watchover it. 16 -And the Lord God commanded theman, “You are free to eat from any tree of thegarden, 17 -but you must not eat from the tree ofthe knowledge of good and evil, for on the dayyou eat from it, you will certainly die.” 18 -Thenduplicate all the creation events.2:7,21-22 The creation of the first man and woman isnot myth. The author of the account intends to portraya historical event; the heading “these are the records/family records” (2:4a) occurs eleven times in Genesisand introduces genealogies and historical narratives(e.g., 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:27). The first “man” (Hb. adam)is treated in genealogies as a historical individual named“Adam” (5:1; Lk 3:38). Since the name Adam means“man(kind),” the author also used him to representhumanity in general (3:17-18; cp. Rm 12:12-21). Theaccount of the man and woman’s creation requires thatthe reader understands them as special creations, notmerely types of humans. Biological evolution does notcomport with the author’s intention of the narrative.2:10-14 The lack of archaeological evidence for thegarden of Eden does not mean the place is mythic lore.Despite the advances of archaeology, the recovery of ancientremains is a small percentage of the vast unexaminedNear East. The two rivers Tigris and Euphrates areknown today, located in modern Iraq. The identities ofthe Lord God said, “It is not good for the manto be alone. I will make a helper who is likehim.” 19 -So the Lord God formed out of theground each wild animal and each bird of thesky, and brought each to the man to see whathe would call it. And whatever the man calleda living creature, that was its name. 20 -The mangave names to all the livestock, to the birds ofthe sky, and to every wild animal; but for theman no helper was found who was like him.21 fSo the Lord God caused a deep sleep to comeover the man, and he slept. God took one of hisribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 -Thenthe Lord God made the rib He had taken fromthe man into a woman and brought her to theman. 23 -And the man said:This one, at last, is bone of my bone,and flesh of my flesh;this one will be called woman,for she was taken from man.24 -This is why a man leaves his father andmother and bonds with his wife, and they becomeone flesh. 25 -Both the man and his wifewere naked, yet felt no shame.Now the serpent was the most cunning ofall the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did Godreally say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in thegarden’?”2 -The woman said to the serpent, “We mayeat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 -Butabout the fruit of the tree in the middle of thegarden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touchit, or you will die.’f”the Gihon and Pishon are uncertain but may have beenlocal streams or canals. The topographical change thatthe region underwent could have occurred through theupheaval of floods, climatic changes, and land shifts.2:19 The verb rendered “formed” can also be “hadformed” (NIV), which would alleviate the alleged contradictionwith the order of animals created beforeman (1:24-26). Alternatively, chap. 2 is a topical telling,setting the creation of the animals in contrast to thecreation of the woman so as to highlight her dignity asfully human.3:1 Snakes do not speak, but this is not a folk etiologygiving the cause for the universal enmity betweenhumans and snakes. The animal’s life has a history thatwill end in a future destruction (“all the days of yourlife,” 3:14). Snakes in ancient times were associatedwith both life and death, wisdom and evil (Nm 21:6,8;Mt 10:16) and thus an effective symbol for wisdom thatgives life or for evil that leads to death. 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A4S-02-Exo 9-14-09.indd 59EXODuS 32:28a 1:5 Lit of people issuing from Jacob’s loins b 1:5 LXX, DSS read 75 ; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14 c 1:12 Or Egyptians loathed d 1:16 Lit birth, look at the stonese 1:22 Sam, LXX, Tg; MT omits to the Hebrews f 2:2 Or healthyof chapter 1 occurred at least 150 years prior to Rameses II’sreign. The city’s name means literally “Born of [the god] Ra.”Ra was one of the most popular gods in the history of Egypt,worshiped since at least the Fourth Dynasty (ca 2772 b.c.). Itis entirely possible that a city honoring this popular god wasbuilt hundreds of years before Rameses II.1:19 Were the Hebrew midwives lying? The Hebrew midwivesmisled Pharaoh in order to save innocent human lives. The<strong>Bible</strong> teaches that lying is wrong (20:16; Lv 19:11; Eph 4:29;Col 3:9; Rv 22:15) and that people should tell the truth (Zch8:16). What the midwives did is not meant as an example ofbehavior of which God approves. Nevertheless, their act wasmatter, he did not deserve to hear the truth from these women.and pure evil, and one is sometimes compelled to choose theleast sinful alternative. Christians are to speak the truth in love(2 Co 4:2; Eph 4:15). Jesus set the example for Christians bytelling the truth even when it produced personal pain and suffering(Mt 26:63-66; Jn 8:40-59).599/15/2009 11:09:10 AMa 32:29 Text emended; MT reads Today dedicate yourselves ; LXX, Vg read Today you have dedicated yourselves b 33:2 Sam, LXX add GirgashitesA4S-02-Exo 9-14-09.indd 9494ExoDus 33:20Skeptics say this verse contradicts Exodus 33:11, which saysMoses saw God “face to face” (also see Gn 32:30; Dt 5:4).However, some <strong>Bible</strong> passages are not meant to be takenliterally. The expression “face to face” figuratively means thatGod spoke directly and openly with Moses (Nm 12:8), not thatGod literally stood eyeball to eyeball with him. If the <strong>Bible</strong> didnot include figurative language, we would be required to believethat God has wings and feathers (Ps 91:4), and that Jesus ismade up of flour (Jn 6:35) and wood (Jn 10:9). Furthermore,God the Father is spirit and is therefore invisible (Jn 1:18; 1Tm1:17). Yet God sometimes accommodated the human context bypresenting Himself as if He had a body (e.g., Gn 3:8), and manyscholars believe that Jesus personally appeared to some peoplein the OT as the preincarnate Angel of the Lord (Gn 22:11-18). Inany event, no one can gaze at God in His full essence, which isthe point Exodus 33:20 is making.9/15/2009 11:10:39 AMStudy <strong>Bible</strong>s HCSBApologetics Study <strong>Bible</strong> for StudentsHard Questions, Straight AnswersGeneral Editor: Sean McDowellThe Apologetics Study <strong>Bible</strong> for Students will anchor younger Christians in the truths of Scripture by equippingthem with thoughtful and practical responses for whenever the core issues of their faith and life are challenged.Research studies have shown that spiritual focus often weakens among teenagers as they head into theattention-dividing realm of young adulthood. Up to 66 percent of them leave church altogether. 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Sean and his wife have two children.BEST SELLING POINTS• Two-color, design-intensivelayout on every page for thevisual generation• Sixty “Twisted Scriptures”explanations• Fifty “Bones & Dirt” entries(archaeology meets apologetics)• Fifty “Notable Quotes”• Twenty-five “Tactics” againstcommon anti-Christian arguments• Twenty “Personal Stories” of howGod has worked in real lives• Twenty “Top Five” lists to helpremember key apologetics topics• Includes contributions fromJosh McDowell, C. S. Lewis,Dan Kimball, HankHanegraaff, and many more.S C A NTHIS CODEto watch a shortvideo presentation.1…ExodusIsrael Oppressed in Egyptmortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposedThese are the names of the sons of Israel who came all this work on them.15 to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family: Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives,one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,2 16Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;them as they deliver. d If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.daughter, she may live.” 17 The Hebrew midwives, however,• feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told5 The total number of Jacob’s descendants a was 70; b Josephwas already in Egypt.moned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you donethem; they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt sum-6 Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation But this and it’s let the not boys live? that ” way.So what if you don't believe?died. 7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied,and became extremely numerous so that the land not The like world the Egyptian You does don’t women, not for make belong they are the vigorous to you. universe. and giveis was filled with them.But it’s birth not before that a midwife can get to them.”19 The You But midwives don’t it’s said make not to Pharaoh, the that “The universe. way.So what if you don't believe?Hebrew women are8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power The way.So to what buy the if you lie don't that believe? God20 So God was good You worldto don’t doesmidwives, set notand the the belongpeople rules. to you.So is what to mul-You don’t make in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people tiplied and became very You thenumerous. don’t universe.Not buy that if the you easy. is lie fiction don't To that not and God believe believe? you’re inset 21 Since the midwives rules.are more numerous and powerful than we are. 10 Let us deal The world does not belong to you.is fiction and you’re infeared God, He gave them families. 22 Pharaoh‘Everythen commandedall Youman fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand is to buy the lie that Charge. Godshrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply ⎣further⎦,But it’shis people: don’tnot“You setthatmust theway.throw rules. everythroughson bornthetocamp from entrance to entrance, and each of up, each one at the door of his tent, and they would watchis to buy the lie that is fiction God Charge.and you’re inand if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fightYou don’t make the the Hebrews e into the Nile, but let every daughteryou universe.live.”kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’ ” is fiction and you’re in28 The Moses until he entered the tent. 9 When Moses entered theagainst us, and leave the country.” 11 So the Egyptians assignedtaskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with Moses’ Birth and Adoption You don’t set the rules. fell dead that day among the people. Charge.The world does not belong Levites did to as you. Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain atforced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levitefor Pharaoh. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more woman.they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to 229 Afterward Moses the entrance to the tent, and ⎣the Lord⎦ would speak withsaid, “Today you have been dedicated a to the Lord, since Moses. 10 As all the people saw the pillar of cloud remainingat the entrance to the tent, they would stand up, then2 The woman became pregnant each and man gave went against his son and his brother. Thereforebirth to a son; when she saw that he you was have beautiful,f she hid him for three months. 3 30brought a blessing on yourselves today.” bow in worship, each one at the door of his tent. 11 Thedread c the Israelites. 13 They worked the Israelites ruthlesslyBut when she The could following day Moses said to the people, “You have Lord spoke with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket committed for him and a grave sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhapsI will be able to atone for your sin.”his assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would notwith his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these leave the inside of the tent.people have committed a grave sin; they have made a godof gold for themselves. 32 Now if You would only forgive their The Lord’s Glory12sin. But if not, please erase me from the book You haveMoses said to the Lord, “Look, You have told me, ‘Leadwritten.”this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You33 The Lord replied to Moses: “I will erase whoever haswill send with me. You said, ‘I know you by name, and yousinned against Me from My book. 34 Now go, lead the peoplehave also found favor in My sight.’ 13 Now if I have indeedfound favor in Your sight, please teach me Your ways, andto the place I told you about; see, My angel will go beforeI will know You and find favor in Your sight. Now consideryou. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountablefor their sin.” 35 And the Lord inflicted a plague on 14 Then He replied, “My presence will go ⎣with you⎦, andthat this nation is Your people.”I will give you rest.”1:5 The number 70 mentioned here and in Gn 46:27 seems tocontradict Stephen’s figure of 75 in Ac 7:14. The number 75can also be found at Ex 1:5 within the Septuagint (the Greektranslation of the OT) and the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, thesetwo numbers can be reconciled. The higher figure includes 5additional sons born to Ephraim and Manasseh sometime afterJacob and his other clan members arrived in Egypt. These additionalindividuals are named in Nm 26:28-37 and 1Ch 7:14-23, as well as in the Greek version of Gn 46:27.1:8 The biblical writer’s use of the term “king” to refer to thesupreme leader of Egypt has been used as evidence that Mosescould not have written the book of Exodus, since anyone familiarwith Egyptian culture would have used the Egyptianterm “pharaoh.” But “pharaoh” is used 185 times elsewhere inthe Torah. Moses was writing this document to a Hebrew, notEgyptian, audience. In the language of the original readers theterm “king” (Hb melek) referred to the highest governmentalofficial within a social system. Perhaps, for the sake of clarityfor his readers as well as for literary variety, Moses chose touse the usual Hebrew term.1:11 The mention of a city named Rameses cannot be used toprove that the events of this narrative took place during thedays of Rameses II (c. 1290 b.c.). However, the <strong>Bible</strong>’s chronologicalreferences (see esp. 1 Kg 6:1) suggest that the eventsSampleInteriorintended to avert a far greater wrong — the murder the of people inno-focent children. Because of Pharaoh’s wicked intentions in thiswhat they did with the calf Aaron had made.Others in the OT were recorded as deliberately misleading The Tent peo-Outsidple in order to protect innocent human life, including Samuel The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go, leave here,the Camp(1Sm 16:2) and Jeremiah (Jr 38:24-27). In a world marredby sin it is not always possible to choose between pure good you and the people you brought up from33the land of Egypt, to the land I promisedto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your• offspring. 2 I will send an angel ahead of you and will driveout the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, b Hivites,and Jebusites. 3 ⎣Go up⎦ to a land flowing with milk andhoney. But I will not go with you because you are a stiffneckedpeople; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”4But it’s not that way. When the people heard this bad news, they mourned anddidn’t put on their jewelry.You But don’t it’s not make that way. the universe.5 For the Lord said to Moses: “Tell the Israelites: You are aThe world You don’t does make not the belong universe. stiff-necked to you. people. If I went with you for a single moment,But it’s not The that world way.You does don’t not belong set I would the to destroy you. rules. you. Now take off your jewelry, and I willYou don’t You make don’t set the rules. universe.decide what to do with you.”The worldButdoes not belong to you.6 So the Israelites ⎣remained⎦stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb ⎣onward⎦.Youit’s notdon’tthat way. 7You don’tsetmakethe Now Mosestherules. took a tent and set it up outside the camp,far away from the universe. camp; he called it the tent of meeting.The world does not Anyone belong who wanted to consult you. the Lord would go to thetent of meeting that was outside the camp.You don’t set the rules.8 WheneverSTwistedc r i p t u r e32:32-33 Does God keep a book with people’s names in it? Several 33:11 If the Lord spoke face to face with Moses, why does theverses indicate that God keeps written recbook later suggest that Moses never saw His face (33:20-ords (17:14; Ps 56:8; 23)? On three occasions the <strong>Bible</strong> states that God spoke “face69:28; 139:16; Dn 12:1; Mal 3:16; Rv 3:5; 5:1-9; 10:2-10; to face” with Moses (33:11; Nm 12:8; Dt 5:4). However, it13:8; 17:8; 20:12-15; 21:27; 22:7-19). But such expressions is also clear that this expression was not meant to be takencould be metaphors, using a human analogy—keeping accountbooks—to symbolize the fact that God remembers what equated with “openly, and not in riddles” (Nm 12:8). For aliterally; in the book of Numbers, “speaking face to face” ispeople do, just as biblical language regarding God’s eye or hand discussion of Moses’ seeing God, see note on Ex 3:6.is figurative. The point is that every person will be held accountablefor his actions and words (Ec 12:14; Mt 12:36).But it’s not that way.You But don’t it’s not make that way.the universe.The world You don’t does make not the belong universe.to you.But it’s not The that world way.You does don’t not belong set the to you.rules.You don’t You make don’t set the rules.universe.The world does not belong to you.You don’t set the rules.Not that easy. To not believeNot that easy. To not believeNot that easy. 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