Saturday, March 2, 2013

The ABC’s of Genesis 1 to 11

Adam was a real historical figure.
Babel confused everybody.
Creator and Sustainer, God is.
Deluge – the Global Flood ruined Earth.
Eve (aka Eva) is the Mother of All (Gen. 3:20).
Fall – the Curse was the consequence.
Genesis 1-11 è foundational to Biblical doctrine.
Historical Narrative – Gen. 1:1 to 2:3 is.
Ice AgeONE, not many.
Jesus endorsed Genesis 1-11.
Kinds are fixed (not species).
Lamb – sacrifice is required (Gen. 3:21, Ex. 12). [1]
Man is unique (Gen. 1:26, 2 Peter 2:12, 16).
Noah, Ark, Global Flood (Gen. 6-9).
Offerings and worship (Heb. 11:4, Gen. 8:20).
Pain since the Fall (Gen. 3:16-19).
Qumran – Dead Sea Scrolls – Genesis
Redemption promised (Gen. 3:15).
Satan is alive & well on planet Earth (Gen. 3).
Theology Matters (GIII is foundational).
Ussher, Y6K, YES, Annals of the World.
Virgin Birth (Gen. 3:15).
Week, origin of (Creation Week, Seven).
X-cellent, Adam was smart
YES = Young Earth Science (Gen. 5&11).
ZZZ è Adams Lost Dream.
In The Great Evangelical Disaster, Francis Schaeffer said,

The issue is whether the Bible gives propositional truth … where it touches history and the cosmos and this all the way back to pre-Abrahamic history, all the way back to the first eleven chapters of Genesis … [2]

Every single biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the Book of Genesis” – Ken Ham. [3]

Writing in “The Funeral of a Great Myth” C.S. Lewis wrote,

… everything is moving “upwards and onwards.”  Reason has “evolved” out of instinct … civilization out of savagery … [many Darwinists claim] reason, virtue, art and civilization as we now know them are only crude or embryonic beginnings of far better things – perhaps Deity itself – in the remote future. [4]
 

Notes:
1)  A is for Adam by Ken & Mally Ham (Master Books, 1995), p. 78.
2)  The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer, Vol. 4 (Crossway, 1996), p. 332, emphasis added.
3)  The Lie by Ken Ham (Master Books, 25th Anniv. ed., 2012), p. 82, emphasis in original. 
4)  Christian Reflections by C.S. Lewis (Eerdmans, 1967), p. 86.

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