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NIV, Questions on the Old Testament: Excerpts from The Quest Study Bible

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Thank you for purchasing NIV, Questions on the Old Testament: Excerpts from The Quest Study Bible. This unique Zondervan Bible Extract from the Quest Study Bible is one of three courses taking you quickly into passages every Christian should know. In this bite size edition, youll spend two weeks in the Old Testament studying passages from Genesis, Exodus, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, and Amos. Each daily reading should take only about 10 minutes. There are 14 chapters of scripture included. Youll also find question-based notes that clarify the meaning of the Bible text.

Questions are indicated by a [?] icon and question mark and will appear throughout the Scripture text. Clicking the icon will present a question about the Bible relevant to the referring passage of scripture.

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Genesis

Exodus

2 Samuel

Job

Day 1
Genesis 1

The Beginning

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Regardless of whether the days of creation were figurative or literal 24-hour periods, this passage is a truthful description of what took place. It indicates that there is intelligence, meaning and purpose behind all existence. In other words, the word of God directed the method of creation as well as the source of creation (Ps 33:6, 9; Heb 11:3). Yet human beings have been given the privilege of exploring, through scientific investigation, how God may have engineered these events and how long he took to do so.

Many understand the six days of creation as representing long periods of time because the sun, which marks a 24-hour day, wasnt created until the fourth day. And the word day is used in chapters 12 in three distinct ways: (1) as approximately 12 hours of daylight () could not have come from the earths sun if the sun was not created until the fourth day. The light could have come from other sources that God provided in the universe prior to the creation of the sun. We can only speculate about what the atmospheric conditions might have been at that time.

Setting of Genesis ()

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.