It is interesting that half of Eve’s punishment in Genesis 3:16 is painful childbirth – because she chooses to not have children in the Garden of Eden and God wants to remind her of her decision? – ...

For these faiths Eden was a story of the first sin, not an original ... with it the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve were then expelled from the Garden of Eden and given specific ...

Jonathan Edwards, who wrote and preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is startlingly relevant for us today.

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." According to many visitors, the hauntingly beautiful Bonaventure won't disappoint, but travelers said that bug spray, a water bottle and comfortable ...

Genesis means "origin," so it’s the perfect name for the stories in the Bible that include creation—both of the natural world and the invention of human sin. We see the first man ... not eat from any ...

Hail Mary (12x) in honor of the twelve years of Jesus' infancy Before the first Hail Mary say ... the grace never to commit any sin against the virtue of purity. There are other chaplets in honor of ...

Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Christian baptism is rooted in a rich symbolism of water in the ...

This begs the question: was life in the Garden of Eden good and happy? And can we envisage a return, or is paradise irretrievably lost, at least in this life, until the return of the “new Adam” who ...

This is Yaakov’s last moment. The father is on his back. His staff is resting in the corner never to be picked up again.