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Creation in Scripture · Dean Odle collection

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Creation, the waters, the heavens and the world below. Read the Bible in context, then follow Odle's interpretation and the questions it leaves open.

32passage questions

3retained teachings

18related atlas themes

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32 context questions enrich 18 existing atlas themes. These are attributed interpretations, separate from the 156-study library and its 200 mapped source arguments.

Creation and the biblical world

32 questions

  1. 01Why begin cosmology with the Creator?Genesis 1:1-19; John 1:1-5Interpretation
  2. 02What separates the waters?Genesis 1:1-19Interpretation
  3. 03Where are the lights placed in Genesis?Genesis 1:1-19Interpretation
  4. 04How does the flood account describe water entering and leaving?Genesis 7:11-24; Genesis 8:1-5Interpretation
  5. 05Does Job’s seal image describe the whole earth being flattened?Job 38:1-15Interpretation
  6. 06What is the sun’s tabernacle and circuit?Psalms 19:1-14Interpretation
  7. 07What is Wisdom describing at the boundary of the deep?Proverbs 8:22-31Interpretation
  8. 08Does an established world mean zero rotation?Psalms 93:1-5Interpretation
  9. 09What is at rest in Zechariah’s vision?Zechariah 1:8-17Interpretation
  10. 10What does God’s footstool tell us about divine scale?Isaiah 66:1-2Interpretation
  11. 11What did Ezekiel see above the living creatures?Ezekiel 1:22-28Interpretation
  12. 12Does Revelation20 use a Greek word meaning a flat planet?Revelation 20:7-10Interpretation
  13. 13What does Joshua’s long day actually narrate?Joshua 10:8-15Interpretation
  14. 14How does Odle decide when a passage is figurative?Galatians 4:21-31Interpretation
  15. 15Does God’s nearness specify the height of heaven?Acts 17:22-31Interpretation
  16. 16Is Eden described as a garden on earth?Genesis 2:4-17Interpretation
  17. 17What does the guarded way to the tree of life establish?Genesis 3:22-24Interpretation
  18. 18How does heavenly Paradise fit Odle’s model?2 Corinthians 12:1-10Interpretation
  19. 19What promise does Jesus make to the thief?Luke 23:39-43Interpretation
  20. 20Does “not yet ascended” identify Paradise’s location?John 20:11-18Interpretation
  21. 21What are the lower parts of the earth in Ephesians?Ephesians 4:7-16Interpretation
  22. 22What is Jesus comparing with Jonah?Matthew 12:38-42Interpretation
  23. 23Who are the spirits in prison?1 Peter 3:18-22Interpretation
  24. 24Who are the dead who heard the gospel?1 Peter 4:1-6Interpretation
  25. 25What separates Abraham’s bosom from torment?Luke 16:19-31Interpretation
  26. 26Why do Eden’s trees appear in Ezekiel’s descent oracle?Ezekiel 31:1-18Interpretation
  27. 27Whose boast is about the sides of the north?Isaiah 14:1-23Interpretation
  28. 28What is seen outside the restored worshipping community?Isaiah 66:18-24Interpretation
  29. 29Does judgment in the Lamb’s presence locate Hell next to Paradise?Revelation 14:6-13Interpretation
  30. 30What is promised to the church at Ephesus?Revelation 2:1-7Interpretation
  31. 31Does Psalm139 put human formation beneath the earth?Psalms 139:7-18Interpretation
  32. 32How does New Jerusalem differ from a present-world map?Revelation 21:9-27Interpretation

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