Summary

This episode is based on CMI’s booklet 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History. It is a summary of some of the major arguments that the Genesis record must be taken as real historical events involving real people. Allegorical or mythological renderings result in massive theological difficulties.

• The authority of Scripture
• Jesus Christ on the infallibility of Scripture
• Should Genesis be taken literally?
• Are (biblical) creationists ‘cornered’?—a response to Dr J.P. Moreland
• But from the beginning of … the institution of marriage?
• Hebrew scholar affirms that Genesis means what it says!
• Did Moses really write Genesis?
• Does Genesis hold up under critic’s scrutiny?
• Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history
• The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe
• Genesis means what it says: Basil (AD 329–379)
• Orthodoxy and Genesis: What the fathers really taught
• Luther on evolution
• The slippery slide to unbelief
• But it’s divisive!
• Refuting Compromise-introduction

Feedback

• Former long-ager finds freedom in a literal Genesis
• Theistic evolutionist answers CMI s questions

Also see

• Genesis Q&A page
• Creation Compromises Q&A page
• Bible Q&A page

Recommended Resources

• 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History
• Age of the Earth DVD
• Creation magazine
• Journal of Creation

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