There will come a time when the whole natural world, with all the living things it comprises, will be restored to their condition before the fall.

The foundation of the joy experienced by a true follower of Jesus Christ must not be due to personal achievements, but the knowledge of being in a sincere relationship with him.

Ravens are among the most intelligent of all birds, and they are even able to use rudimentary tools to obtain food or play with snow. They usually mate for life, they seek food in packs, and they are omnivorous.

The Lord ate some roast fish and honey with them out of love for his disciples, with the aim of showing them the supernatural wonder of the resurrection.

Among the livestock and possessions that no Jew was permitted to covet was the ox.

In Hebrew and Greek literature, this animal is renowned for its shrewdness and also for its small size compared with other predators.

In the ancient world, the moth was seen as a symbol for ruin and destruction. (Psalm 39:11). 

This miracle, incomprehensible from the point of view of pure logic, has been exercising the minds of numerous theologians and commentators since the 19th century.

Roosters crow before dawn to mark their territory and attract hens.

The mother hen is thought to contribute decisively to regulating the chicks’ rhythms of activity and rest.

Christian hope is that a day will come when the purposes that God had in mind when he created the cosmos will be fully fulfilled.

An adult male dromedary camel can weigh as much as 700 kilos and reach a height of three metres. By contrast, the eye of a sewing needle is less than one millimetre wide.

Jesus did not have to pay the temple tax because he was the Son of God. However, he paid it so as not to give offence, out of his love for humankind.

Christ taught you can tell what a person is like inside by the words they speak, and that everyone will give account for their words.

Doves and pigeons are often stigmatised as dirty birds. However, this description is completely false.

Tthey move with great ease by means of the lateral undulations of their bodies. They can do this because their skeletons are made up of short, broad and floating vertebrae.

Recent studies focusing on the social behaviour of the sheep show that they are much more complex than has been thought.

When the fox digs this lair, it removes the soil and spreads it in all directions around the entrance, thus forming a kind of fan shape.

The dogs referred by Jesus in Matthew 7 were animals that belonged to no one, running wild and untamed, and consuming any waste that they could find, including corpses, which was why they were regarded as unclean.

It is believed to be around 18,000 different species of birds. By contrast, only 110 different species of lily have been identified.

Scriptures abound in stories in which animals perform important pedagogical functions.

The shark has built-in software to know when to change direction, how to hunt a particular prey, escape a predator, among many other actions.

From a human perspective, questions immediately arise about why there are so many lethal organisms in our world.

What is most extraordinary is when a whole colony of individuals clusters to resemble a flower, and thus deceive birds.

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Animals and Plants of the Bible, by biologist and theologian Antonio Cruz, analyses the over 300 animal and plant species mentioned in Scripture.