Genesis: Fact or Fiction?

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Genesis Fact or Fiction?

• Why Genesis is so Important.

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Six Days of Creation

• 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 and 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

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Six Days of Creation

• 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 cant harm it (vs19)
• A raging river cant move it (23)

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Six Days of Creation

• 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)

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Taylor Trail

• Paluxy River in Glen Rose Texas
• Dinosaur Valley State Park

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Taylor Trail

• Human foot print inside a dinosaur foot print

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Origin of Week

• Day 1 revolution
• Month Cycle of the moon
• Year 1 orbit around the sun
• Week ???
• Exodus 208-11

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Global Flood

• Argument against two separate stories
• Genesis 619-20 two of every sort
• Genesis 72-3 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
• Genesis 820 Reason for difference

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Global Flood

• Other argument against Different lengths of
  days for the flood
• Genesis 717 Now the flood was on the earth
  forty days.
• Genesis 724 And the waters prevailed on the
  earth one hundred and fifty days.
• Genesis 711 Noah 600yrs, 2mth, 17day
• Genesis 814 Noah 601yrs, 2mth, 27day

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Flood Timeline
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Global Flood

• Other argument Not enough water
• Argument based on the world of today
• Genesis 19 Single continent
• 2 Peter 35-6 The earth is
• different now

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Flood

• The cause of the Flood is described in
  tectonics, "All the waters of the great deep were
  broken up" (Genesis 711). The Hebrew word --
  baqa, "burst or rent open" -- used other places
  to refer to the geological phenomena of faulting.
  Psalms 1048 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)

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Evidence of Global Flood
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Evidence of Global Flood
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Sodom and Gomorrah

• Argument Asteroid destroyed these cities
• Destroyed 386,000 sq miles
• Israel 8,522 sq miles
• Texas 268,581 sq miles

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Sodom and Gomorrah

• Zoar survived
• Genesis 1915 Lot leaves Sodom at dawn
• Genesis 1923 Lot enters Zoar at sunrise
• Deuteronomy 343
• Zoar mentioned in writings up to the Middle-ages

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Sodom and Gomorrah

• God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
• Genesis 1924-25
• What evidence is there?
• Two cities found that match level of destruction
  described in Genesis 1924

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Why does it matter?

• What are the ramifications?
• God not all powerful
• Truth is God is all powerful
• Jeremiah 3237
• Job 422
• Matthew 1926

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Why does it matter?

• If creation took billions of years God Lied
• If no global flood God Lied
• If God didnt destroyed the Sodom and Gomorrah
  God Lied
• Why believe any of the Bible???

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Why does it matter?

• 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?

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What one must do to be saved

• Hear Romans 1017
• Believe John 318
• Repent Acts 1730
• Confess Romans 109
• Baptized Mark 1616
• Live faithfully Revelations 210