Recent content by grain of sand

Update: I posted #28 on this thread when I was reading the NT for the first time in about 25 years.  I finished!  Now I'm going to read it again!  I decided to put off starting the OT for a little while.  I'm still absorbing what I've learned so far in the NT, and...

Don't read this if you're not ready to see the answer yet!!! Turn the first switch on for a while and turn it off, then turn the second switch on and go to the other room.  The warm but dark bulb is the first switch, the lit bulb is the second switch, and the dark and cold bulb is...

In one room there are 3 light bulbs wired to 3 light switches located in another room.  You cannot see which of the light bulbs light up when you work the switches. By going only once from the room with the switches to the room with the light bulbs, how can you determine which...

Many theorize that the pre-flood world was under a canopy of frozen hydrogen, thus leaving the atmospere with a much higher oxgen content and a increased atmospheric pressure. If this were the case, the world would have been a huge hyper-baric chamber, thus causing all life to be prolonged...

Good thinking, LightHearted!  The way the problem is worded sets up a false equation, trying to obscure the fact that the $2 the bellboy kept is already included in the $27 the women paid.  The hotel got $25, the bellboy took $2 and the women got $3 back, which totals up to...

I tend to agree, Knight.  After a little more cogitating, I don't really think diet had much to do with it either.    Still interested in why God decided to allow the eating of meat as part of His covenant with Noah, though.  Please continue, if anyone...

Fascinating--I appreciate the input.  Now, what about the other part of my question?  Any takers?: Before the Flood, people lived for hundreds of years.  Were these only a few people or did everyone generally live that long?  Why did lifespans shorten considerably after...

Three little old ladies were traveling together when they checked into a hotel for the night, and they paid $10 each to share a $30 room.  After they went upstairs, the desk clerk realized that he should have only charged them $25 for the room, so he gave five $1 bills to the bellboy...

Hubby saw something in Genesis the other day that he had never really noticed before and I hadn't either, so now he's got me wondering about it, too.  It's not something we're agonizing over or anything like that--just curious: In Gen 1:28-30: God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be...

My username came from something that helps to remind me that I'm part of something much bigger and much more meaningful than the narrow little orbit I usually live in: We each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 gg-gps, 32 ggg-gps, 64 gggg-gps, etc, etc, adding up...

I'm 40 years old, of English/Native American heritage, interested in world and American history, insatiable reader, seriously introverted, social klutz.  I have a wonderful Christian hubby, and my kids somehow grew up to be independent, hardworking, responsible young adults.&nbsp...

This may not be the best path for a beginner to take, but as someone who last read the entire Bible about 25 years ago, mostly just chapters or verses since, and didn't attend church regularly while raising my own family, I've been having the most wonderful experience lately that might...