Genesis Fact or Fiction Why Genesis is so

Genesis: Fact or Fiction? Why Genesis is so Important.

Six Days of Creation n n n Day 1: God created light – vs 3 -5 Day 2: God created the atmosphere, and seas – vs 6 -8 Day 3: God created the land plants – vs 7 -13 Day 4: God created the sun, moon and stars – vs 14 -19 Day 5: God created the sea creatures and the flying creatures – vs 20 -23 Day 6: God created all land creatures and humans – vs 24 -27

Six Days of Creation n Behemoth: ¨ Eats grass (vs 15) ¨ Strong (vs 16) ¨ Big tail “like a cedar” (vs 17) ¨ Bones are like beams of bronze (vs 18) ¨ Ribs are like bars of iron (vs 18) ¨ Man can’t harm it (vs 19) ¨ A raging river can’t move it (23)

Six Days of Creation n Leviathan: ¨ Lives in the water (vs 1, 7) ¨ Man can not conquer it (vs 9 -10) ¨ Tight armor of scales (vs 13 -18) ¨ Shoots out fire from mouth (vs 19) ¨ No weapon can harm it (vs 26 -29) ¨ Underside like sharp potsherds (vs 30) ¨ Leaves a shining wake in the water (vs 32)

Taylor Trail Paluxy River in Glen Rose Texas n Dinosaur Valley State Park n

Taylor Trail n Human foot print inside a dinosaur foot print

Origin of “Week” Day = 1 revolution n Month = Cycle of the moon n Year = 1 orbit around the sun n Week = ? ? ? n ¨ Exodus 20: 8 -11

Global Flood n Argument against – two separate stories ¨ Genesis 6: 19 -20 – “two of every sort” ¨ Genesis 7: 2 -3 – “seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean”, “seven each of birds of the air” n Genesis 8: 20 – Reason for difference

Global Flood n Other argument against – Different lengths of days for the flood ¨ Genesis 7: 17 “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. ” ¨ Genesis 7: 24 “And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. ” Genesis 7: 11 – Noah 600 yrs, 2 mth, 17 day n Genesis 8: 14 – Noah 601 yrs, 2 mth, 27 day n

Flood Timeline

Global Flood n Other argument – Not enough water ¨ Argument based on the world of today Genesis 1: 9 – Single continent n 2 Peter 3: 5 -6 – The earth is different now n

Flood n “The cause of the Flood is described in tectonics, "All the waters of the great deep were broken up" (Genesis 7: 11). The Hebrew word -baqa, "burst or rent open" -- used other places to refer to the geological phenomena of faulting. Psalms 104: 8 says, "The mountains rose up; the valleys sank down. " Oceans deepened due to the weight of water running off the land surfaces into them. With the stupendous weight of new runoff water on the earth's mantle, mountains were uplifted. And, with land masses still unconsolidated, continents may have split off and drifted rather rapidly on the earth's mantle to new locations. The area where the Ark purportedly rests is definitely a tectonically active region. ” (Dr. David Livingston, http: //davelivingston. com/flood. htm)

Evidence of Global Flood

Evidence of Global Flood

Sodom and Gomorrah n Argument – Asteroid destroyed these cities ¨ Destroyed 386, 000 sq miles ¨ Israel – 8, 522 sq miles ¨ Texas – 268, 581 sq miles

Sodom and Gomorrah Zoar survived n Genesis 19: 15 – Lot leaves Sodom at dawn n Genesis 19: 23 – Lot enters Zoar at sunrise n Deuteronomy 34: 3 n Zoar mentioned in writings up to the Middle-ages n

Sodom and Gomorrah n God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ¨ Genesis n 19: 24 -25 What evidence is there? ¨ Two cities found that match level of destruction described in Genesis 19: 24

Why does it matter? n What are the ramifications? ¨ God n not all powerful Truth is God is all powerful ¨ Jeremiah ¨ Job 32: 37 42: 2 ¨ Matthew 19: 26

Why does it matter? If creation took billions of years – God Lied n If no global flood – God Lied n If God didn’t destroyed the Sodom and Gomorrah – God Lied n Why believe any of the Bible? ? ? n

Why does it matter? n n n Why believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Why believe that Jesus died for the sins of mankind? Why believe that God will forgive our sins through the blood of Christ? Why believe in the promise of heaven to the faithful? Why believe anything?

What one must do to be saved Hear: Romans 10: 17 n Believe: John 3: 18 n Repent: Acts 17: 30 n Confess: Romans 10: 9 n Baptized: Mark 16: 16 n Live faithfully: Revelations 2: 10 n