Show BIBLE I 1 94 ANS ANSWER W C GO R BY T THC TH C VOICE j PROPHECY BIBLE broadcaster DC question Is it not probable t that h t 1 aar the six days of creation were s say 1 a thousand or a million years I 1 long angi answer adam was created on j the sixth day and lived live d over taj ther i seventh day daj and the scripture says say that all the days that adam lived live were nine hundred and thirty years genesis 55 the theory 0 of long time periods does not f fit adams age Q the bible say tha thata the earth is held up on the should ers of a giant A read it and see in an age when others believed such things a bible writer proclaimed the great scientific truth that god hang hangel etli hL the earth upon nothing job Q what is the meaning of the word selah in psalm A selah seah occurs seventy one limes in the psalms and three times in Habakkuk it is evidently i a musical term meaning pause orrest Q why do people call palestine palestina the holy land A no doubt because the bible does in zechariah and the lord shall inherit judah his portion in the holy land and shaul choose jerusalem again Q what does the word jesus mean A it means sa saviour clour than lm is suggested by the words of matthew and she shall bring forelli and thou call his name nama JESUS for he shall save hiar people from their sins Q why does easter come at such widely different times broms sarly arly in march to late in april A jesus was crucified fied at thew the w passover season which always begins on the fourteenth day of the first jewish month leviticus and falls on different days of tho week from year to year but ecclesiastical sias authorities in the early centuries of the christian era decreed that easter should always 10 e celebrated on sunday the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox however there is no bible instruction for them observance of easter the one oc currence tur currence rence of the word easter acts in our authorized version of the bible is to be deplored as it should have been translated passover the word easter is iq not the original at all the ro revised vi version has it correctly translated translate dl passover ed note address your questions ofis a BIBLE QUESTION COLUMN ther the voice of prophecy box 55 los an c s 53 calif bible questions of gen cial interest will be answered in this column as space permits |