Editor’s Blog
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 3:1-5
Copyright 2019 by JWA Here is the relevant passage in 1 Tim. 2:9-15 that Pastor Jim refers to: 9Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10but rather by means...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 3:9-21
Copyright 2019 by JWA v. 10 “He [Adam] answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” Explanation of Theophany (theophanies): “I heard you in the garden. . .” The narrative is unfolded in the simplest terms so a child can...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 3:21-4:3
Copyright 2019 by JWA 22 “And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” “become like one of us” Though scholarly...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 4:3-7
Copyright 2019 by JWA This content from Chapter 4 not included with previous Study Guide: Now the man had relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.” “had relations” The...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 4:13-6:1
Copyright 2019 by JWA 1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. Notice that in Genesis...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 6:1-11
Copyright 2019 by JWA As you may be aware, today’s passage is difficult to interpret. Therefore, Pastor Jim explains this important hermeneutical (interpretive) principle: “The best interpretation [assuming it is already consistent with the rest of Scripture] is the...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Genesis 6:9-7:2
Copyright 2019 by JWA This is the account (toledoth = generations) ---- a regular marker of the organizational divisions of Genesis. The first was the heavens and the earth, the second the generations of Adam and his family, now the generations of Noah and his family....
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 9:6-10:1
Copyright 2019 by JWA In his discussion of Capital Punishment, Pastor Jim references Pope Francis’s 2018 reversal of the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on the subject. Here is an excerpt from a Catholic author, Dr. Edward Feser...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 10:1-11:6
Copyright 2019 by JWA Chapter 10 informs us about all the peoples who sprung from Noah and were in the larger geographical neighborhood during that general period. This is a narration of roots that has been dubbed “the Table of Nations.” In such genealogies, the most...
Study Guide for GENESIS: Chapter 12:1-13
Copyright 2019 by JWA Editor’s Note: Pastor Jim will occasionally exchange the name Abraham for Abram by accident prior to his name change in Genesis 17:5. This is also true for the names Sarah and Sarai. v.6 The great tree of Moreh (means “teacher”) was not just a...