Toward the end of Matthew 16, Jesus told the disciples that He would go to Jerusalem, suffer, die, and then be raised from the dead on the third day. Peter must have zoned out on the resurrection part and heard only the suffering and death portion, so he went off on Jesus, rebuking him for […]

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” In Genesis 1:1 we see the start of time, “In the beginning,” space, “the heavens,” and matter, “the earth.” God originated them all out of nothing, as revealed by the word “created,” the Hebrew bara. Of course, God later created mankind out of matter, and […]