Q.  In Does God Have A Plan for All Of Us?  you said that God delegated the procreation process to Adam and Eve so He isn’t directly involved (if I understood you correctly). Does that mean that life is a lottery and every person ever existed is conceived by chance?  I always believed that every person was uniquely planned by God. I know testimonies where people found solace in the fact that they aren’t unplanned mistakes (as their parents made them feel in many cases) because God planned and wanted them (not just foreknew them!) before creation.

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Q.  In one of your articles you said you believe Satan’s fall occurred between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, causing a judgment that ruined Earth, and the six day creation account really begins in Genesis 1:3.  But in Exodus 20:11 God said He made the heavens and the Earth, the sea and all that’s in them in six days.  It looks to me like this contradicts your opinion. Would you care to explain this?

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Q. Our study group recently had a lesson on the “doctrine of election”.  Many of us were confused to the point that we are going to continue the teaching next week.  Can you please shed some light on this subject? We were told that God chose those who will be saved “before the foundations of earth” and everyone who wasn’t chosen then has no hope.  We know God is a just God and would not create people who had no chance of being saved. Can you help?

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Q.  When I compare Genesis 1:1 with John 1:1 I see a huge difference, but I’m asking for your opinion. Isn’t John 1:1 much more ancient than Genesis 1:1? His being has to predate His work, does it not?

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Q.  If Adam had refused the forbidden fruit could he have become the complete model of the messiah by acting as Eve’s redeemer?

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Q.  If Eve had not been deceived, nor given the fruit to Adam–if they had obeyed God–would one of their children or grandchildren have been deceived?  If God’s plan was to prove Himself just and loving, then someone had to sin and need redemption, right?

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Q.  God tells both Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28) and Noah (Genesis 9:1) to “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth.  Does the word replenish have the same meaning for both?  Did Adam and Eve replenish or fill the earth?

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A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it (Genesis 3:6).

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Q.  I have a question concerning our free will, and God’s foreknowing about our future. First of all, I know that each one of us comes into this world through our parents.  And at the moment of conception we are given a “soul” by God (not by our will, but His will).  The question I have is, was I really given a choice to  either exist or not exist?  Would any part of this decision have been mine?

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Q.  Sometimes before I go to sleep at night, I imagine a God who is absolutely fair and loving to all his creation equally,with no hint of hatred, or jealousy, condemnation, etc.  The kind of God who “truly” loves his creation, and sees to it that we have the best of what life has to offer, and that it happens every day, forever.  I imagine a God who created everyone equally with one language and one tone of skin, where every man and woman is beautiful with no flaws, whether physical, mental, or emotional.  I dream that this God would appear to me in person and honestly show himself to me(in real life,not by faith) and offer to take me to be in His awesome world with Him.  Believe me, I would gladly depart from this world to start a new life of inexpressible joy in His world.  Is it a sin to fantasize like this?

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