More answers to Bible questions atheists are asking me

My Comment:

I recently made a comment on a discussion thread on an atheist site I was made a member of some while ago. The discussion thread occurs below an opening post about Proverbs 3:5, 6.

Here is the comment I made:

You have made a rather broad statement when you wrote and claimed:

“If only these evangelical folks would just READ THEIR BIBLE AND STUDY IT PROPERLY, they wouldn’t be stuck in this miserable devious belief system!!!”
I have read my Bible and I do study it carefully.

It is slightly possible that I have been doing so for longer than you have.

I am amazed by how much some atheists demonstrate here that they do NOT know about the Bible.

But I am thankful for all those who post here for what I read here motivates me to read more thoroughly on a number of significant topics that I might otherwise have not given more complete attention to.

My answers to one questioner’s series of questions:

You have provided a very interesting list of questions for me to comment on! I’ll try to answer them briefly as time permits:

OK, here’s a few for you to be getting on with…

1. When did donkeys, snakes & burning bushes lose the power of speech?

As best I can tell, when the donkey spoke to Balaam, that was a rather unique one-time event that surely rebuffed the recalcitrance of the prophet.

As for talking snakes, that too was a one-time event that took place in the garden of Eden involving the temptation of Eve. There is far more to understanding the Biblical record than what first meets the eye. The Companion Bible has a very interesting Appendix (Appendix 19) that goes much deeper into this subject.

Of course, the burning bush is not the speaker in the Exodus account. This is an instance of what is termed a Theophany. Thus, God spoke to Moses out of the burning bush. Jesus makes reference to this incident in OT history and specifies that it was God who spoke to Moses out of the bush (Mark 12:26). Note in context where Jesus criticized his questioners for not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God (Mark 12:24).

2. When did unicorns become extinct?

Here you might well be more familiar with the Bible text underlying your question than I am. If you will furnish me the Bible passage you are referring to I will try to comment. Please give full reference to the Bible book, chapter, and verse for me that speaks of the unicorns you ask about, thank you.

3. Unicorn fossils??? Where are they?

4. Why have humans lost the ability to live beyond 900+ years old?

The Bible does not directly tell us. I have read many interesting speculations about this. Some have supposed that over time the negative impact of the sin or Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden resulted in the shortening of human life. Others have speculated that the change in the earth’s conditions led to the shortening of human lifespan. But since the Bible, as far as I recall, does not offer a specific answer to this question, we probably do not know for sure, far as I have read.

5. How did kangaroos hop & swim from Australia to Turkey to board Noah’s boat, without a map or sat nav?

The Bible gives some interesting hints about this in connection with the Bible character named Peleg:

Gen 10:25  And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Some suppose that at some point, the continents were more connected than they are now.

Genesis 7:16 speaks of the Lord shutting the door of the Ark when all who or that were intended to be in the Ark were present and accounted for. I would speculate that the Lord Himself arranged for the animals he wished to preserve from the devastating flood to get to its safety. Otherwise, considering the extreme brevity of these early accounts in Genesis, we are not told and so do not know.

6. When Cane killed Abel, where did he go to find a wife seeing as there was only Adam, Eve & their two offspring?

I think the answer to this question is given in Genesis 5:4,

Gen 5:4  And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 

It is clear that Adam begat sons and daughters and that furnishes the answer as to how Cain found a wife. These sons and daughters were born over some period of time. Adam and Eve did their part to fulfil the commandment given to them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the face of the earth.

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