Quotes from Jonathan Sarfati

Certainly, b?r?' is only ever used of God, but is not restricted to creatio ex nihilo. And '?s?h is sometimes used to mean 'create ex nihilo'.

The toledot of the heavens and earth (Genesis 2:4–4:26) starts with the high point of the creation of man and woman, and the ordination of marriage. But not too long after that, the First Couple, Adam and Eve, sinned, and brought death into the world.

But this light of Genesis 1:3, while not God, was still unique. It wasn't sourced in the sun or stars—they wouldn't be created until Day 4 (see Ch. 8). Fruchtenbaum plausibly argues that the source of this physical light was probably the Shekinah Glory.

Jesus Christ is the Truth; and if He affirmed the literal creation of the world in six normal-length days, we Christians should do the same. If however we compromise and try

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9).

All billions-of-years views place death before sin. It's hard to overstate the importance of this. These views teach that almost as soon as living things arose, they also died. However, the first recorded death of a biblically living creature (Hebrew nephesh chayy?h64) occurred after Adam and Eve sinned, when

the purpose of Genesis was to refute pagan beliefs involving worship of the sun, other luminaries, or pagan deities. In other words, Genesis is allegedly teaching us not to worship the sun but our true God who made the sun. (As