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Genesis Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Genesis Verse-by-Verse
• Morning has broken … but when?
• Did God create over billions of years?
• Did God really take six days? (from the Creation Answers Book)
• The use of Genesis in the New Testament
• Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history (available in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Finnish and Russian)
• Which is the recent aberration? Old-Earth or Young-Earth Belief

Should Genesis be taken literally?

• Should Genesis be taken literally?
• Genesis: Myth or History?
• Is the raqiya’ (‘firmament‘) a solid dome?
• Problems in methods of interpretation—Genesis 1–11: Part 1 and Part 2

How long were the days mentioned in the Biblical creation account?

• How long were the days of Genesis 1?
• The numbering pattern of Genesis (from the Creation Answers Book)
• Hebrew scholar Dr Ting Wang affirms that Genesis means what it says!
• Old Testament scholar Dr Robert McCabe affirms Genesis means what it says!
• Genesis according to evolution
• Evenings and mornings
• Days of Revelation or Creation?
• How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the sun wasn’t created until Day 4? (available in Spanish)
• 2 Peter 3:8—“one day is like a thousand years”
• Does Genesis 2:4 refute literal creation days?
• “ … when Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens”, a proposal for the right translation of בְּיוֹם [b^əyôm] in Genesis 2:4

Do Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other?

• Genesis 1 and 2: complementary not contradictory
• What’s in a name? The terms for God in Genesis 1 and 2: no contradiction!

Are the Genesis genealogies meant to be taken as strict chronologies?

• Biblical chronogenealogies
• The Genesis 5 and 11 fluidity question
• Why Genesis 5 is a key chapter in the Bible

Was Adam the real historical first man?

• First Adam—last Adam: Both are vital to the Gospel … but exactly how?
• Was Adam a UFO (unidentified figurative object)?
• Romans 5:12–21: Paul’s view of literal Adam
• Pre-Adamic man: were there human beings on Earth before Adam?
• Did Adam Have a Belly-Button?
• Made in the image of God
• Regenerating ribs: Adam and that ‘missing’ rib (available in Spanish)
• Adam and the immune system

What about the Garden of Eden? What about the serpent?

• How could Adam have named all the animals in a single day?
• Did Eve lie before the Fall?
• The Garden of Eden Found?
• Snakes do eat dust
• Who was the Serpent?
• What about the Snake in the Garden of Eden?

Who was Cain’s wife?

• Where did Cain find his wife?(from the Creation Answers Book)
• Cain’s wife and brother-sister intermarriage

Jesus and the rest of the Bible on Genesis

• Jesus on the age of the earth
• What does the New Testament say about Creation?
• But from the beginning of … the institution of marriage?
• The Resurrection and Genesis
• Christ as the Last Adam: Paul’s use of the creation narrative in 1 Corinthians 15 (PDF)
• Quotations in the New Testament: Do they mean that the quoted book is totally authoritative?

How has Genesis 1–11 been understood throughout history?

• Does Genesis allow any scientific theory of origin? A response to J.P. Dickson
• Genesis 1 and theories of origin
• Creation days and Orthodox Jewish tradition
• Josephus says, Genesis means what it says
• Genesis means what it says according to great Church Father, Basil of Caesarea
• Augustine: young earth creationist
• How did Philo, Clement, and Augustine interpret Genesis 1?
• Roman Catholicism and Genesis
• Eastern Orthodoxy and Genesis
• Luther on Evolution
• Calvin says: Genesis means what it says
• The Church Fathers on the Genesis Flood
• British scriptural geologists in the first half of the nineteenth century

Who really wrote Genesis? Was Genesis copied from pagan mythology?

• Did Moses really write Genesis?
• Debunking the Documentary Hypothesis
• Noah’s Flood and the Gilgamesh Epic
• A comparative study of the flood accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis
• Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies and Genesis 1

Related Q&A pages

• Bible
• Creation: Why It Matters
• Creation Compromises
• Flood
• Noah’s Ark

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