Q&A Books/Genesis Truth Boosters/Genesis 5Chapter 5Genesis 531questionsQ1."Why are genealogies in the Bible even important? Aren’t they just a long list of names?"Q2."Why are women left out of the genealogy in Genesis 5? Doesn’t that seem unfair?"Q3."What’s the deal with people living so long in Genesis 5? What was their secret?"Q4."What’s the point of reading a long list of names in the Bible? Isn’t it just a genealogy?"Q5."Did Enoch really escape death? Isn’t that unusual compared to everyone else?"Q6."Who were the 'sons of God' mentioned in Genesis 6:2? Were they angels or just people?"Q7."So, what exactly happened in Genesis 6:2-4 with the ‘sons of God’ and the ‘daughters of men’? Did the Nephilim come from them? And who were the mighty men of old?"Q8."What does it mean by 'There were giants in the earth in those days' in Genesis 6:4? Is this literal?"Q9."What does it mean that God’s Spirit will ‘contend’ with people in Genesis 6:3? How does His Spirit interact with humanity?"Q10."Did God really set a 120-year lifespan for humans in Genesis 6:3? If so, how do you explain people living longer than that?"Q11."If God is all-knowing, why would He regret creating human beings, as it says in Genesis 6:5-6? Doesn’t regret imply He made a mistake?"Q12."What does it mean that Noah ‘walked with God’? How did he actually do that?"Q13."So, what exactly was this ark that Noah built in Genesis 6:14? Was it just a big boat or something more symbolic?"Q14."If humans were the ones sinning, why did God destroy animals and other creatures in the flood as well? Wasn’t that a bit extreme?"Q15."Why did God make a covenant with Noah? Wasn’t the flood just about punishment?"Q16."If the laws about clean and unclean animals didn’t come until later, how did Noah know which animals were clean and which were unclean in Genesis 7:2-3?"Q17."Why did God have Noah take more clean animals than unclean ones onto the ark? Doesn’t that seem like an odd detail if the Law of Moses hadn’t even been given yet?"Q18."So, what did Noah and his family actually eat while they were on the ark? Were they all just vegetarians?"Q19."Did Noah really just gather all those animals himself, or did God somehow make the animals come to him?"Q20."So, what actually caused these springs to suddenly burst forth in the flood story? Was it just some natural disaster like an earthquake, or was there more to it?"Q21."How did Noah manage all those animals on the ark for so long? Wouldn’t they have gotten restless or run out of food?"Q22."How widespread was the flood in Noah’s time? Was it really global, or could it have just been a regional flood that affected the known world?"Q23."If the flood wiped out every living thing on land, does that mean fish and sea creatures were destroyed too?"Q24."How could Noah have brought so many animals onto the ark? With over a million species known today, it seems impossible. They’d have to board at a rate of at least 10 pairs per second!"Q25."What does it mean when it says God 'remembered' Noah? Did He forget about him for a while?"Q26."How could a flood cover the highest mountains? Where did all that water come from, and where did it go afterward? And why don’t we see clear evidence of such a massive flood in the geological record?"Q27.“When exactly did the earth dry up after the flood? Genesis 8:13 says the waters dried on the first day of the first month, but then verse 14 says the earth wasn’t dry until the twenty-seventh day of the second month. Isn’t that a contradiction?”Q28."What was the point of Noah releasing the raven? What did he expect to learn from that?"Q29."So why does the Bible make a point about the olive leaf in the dove’s beak? What’s so special about an olive leaf?"Q30."Why would God promise never to bring that kind of judgment again? Doesn’t the Bible say human nature hadn’t changed?"Q31."So, are people capable of any good, or does human nature just incline toward evil?"
