Genesis

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Old Testament · questions that cite Genesis.

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These marks echo where critical scholarship tends to land on each question — not GEBible’s own ruling.

Seen as a contradiction
Genuinely disputed
Seen as reconciled

Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
Does God desire animal sacrifices?

The tension: The Priestly source and the Genesis narrative have Yahweh approving Abel's animal sacrifice and later filling Leviticus with hundreds of verses of mandatory bl…

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
What became of Cain?

The tension: Genesis 4:11-12 has Yahweh cursing Cain to be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth — no settled life, no rest.

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
Is polygamy OK?

The tension: This one is a three-way tangle.

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Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled
Was Enoch the sixth or the seventh from Adam?

The tension: Count Adam as position one and the Genesis 5 genealogy puts Enoch at position seven.

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Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
Must everyone die?

The tension: Romans 5:12 says death passed upon all men through Adam.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Who was Noah's youngest son?

The tension: Genesis 9:24 calls Ham Noah's 'younger son' after the nakedness episode.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Do angels have sex?

The tension: Genesis 6:2-4 and Jude 6-7 describe angelic beings (the 'sons of God') having sex with human women and producing Nephilim.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Was God satisfied with his creation?

The tension: Genesis 1:31 has God pronouncing everything he made 'very good' on day six.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
God does repent?

The tension: Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Malachi 3:6, and James 1:17 stack hard on the idea that God does not and cannot repent or change.

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
Has there ever been a just person?

The tension: Ecclesiastes 7:20 flatly denies there is any just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

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Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
Does God approve of slavery?

The tension: Genesis 9:25-27 has Noah — explicitly called a just and righteous man — pronouncing a divine curse condemning Canaan to be 'a servant of servants,' and the Tor…

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
Has there ever been a righteous person?

The tension: Job 15:14, Isaiah 64:6, and Romans 3:10 deny anyone is righteous — all our righteousness is as filthy rags, there is none righteous, no, not one.

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Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
To kill or not to kill

The tension: Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 command 'thou shalt not kill,' and Jesus reaffirms it in Mark 10:19 and Luke 18:20.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
When did Noah enter the ark?

The tension: Genesis 7:7-10 has Noah and family entering the ark, and then seven days later the flood waters come.

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
How many animals of each kind did Noah take into the ark?

The tension: Genesis 6:19 and 7:8-9 and 7:14-15 say two of every sort — male and female — went into the ark.

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Did everyone (except for Noah and his family) die in the flood?

The tension: Genesis 7:21-23 insists that every living thing outside the ark perished, yet Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33 have the Nephilim — the giant offspring of the 'son…

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
How long did the flood last?

The tension: Genesis 7:17 says the flood was on the earth for forty days, while Genesis 7:24 and 8:3 say the waters prevailed for a hundred and fifty days.

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
How long was the ark afloat?

The tension: Genesis 8:4 has the ark resting on Ararat in the seventh month, while Genesis 8:5 says the mountaintops only became visible in the tenth month.

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
When did the earth dry after the flood?

The tension: Genesis 8:13 declares the waters dried up on the first day of the first month, but Genesis 8:14 puts the earth's drying on the twenty-seventh day of the second…

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Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
Will God curse the earth?

The tension: Genesis 8:21 has God swear in his heart never again to curse the ground because of humanity, yet Isaiah 24:1-6 announces a curse that devours the earth and Mal…

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
Is it OK to eat blood?

The tension: The Priestly and Deuteronomic Torah absolutely forbids eating blood as a perpetual statute (Gen 9:4; Lev 3:17; 7:26-27; 17:10-14; 19:26; Deut 12:16, 23), and t…

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Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
Will God flood the earth again?

The tension: Genesis 9:11-15 gives an unqualified covenantal 'no' — God swears never again to flood the earth, with the rainbow as the binding sign.

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Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
Who was Sheba's father?

The tension: The Table of Nations and its parallels give three different fathers for a man named Sheba: Raamah (Gen 10:7; 1 Chr 1:9), Jokshan son of Abraham and Keturah (Ge…

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Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Where was Abraham buried?

The tension: Genesis 25:8-10 has Abraham buried in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron, on a plot he purchased from Ephron the Hittite.

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