Genesis: Key to Rebuilding the Foundation in Family and Culture

America

• America is the greatest Christian nation on earth right now.
• America is becoming less Christian every day.

Biblical History and Authority

• John 3:12

  I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

• Biblical History:
  • Geology: Noah's Ark and Global Flood
  • Biology: 'After his kind' and 'After their kind' appear 10 times in Genesis 1.
  • Anthropology: Descendents of 1 man and 1 woman. 1 RACE!
  • Astronomy: Days of Creation in Genesis 1
• We cannot be saved apart from History.
• We are all of one race. We are all connected and related.
• The Bible is a book of History on which all our thinking should be built.
• 7 C's of History:
  1. Creation
  2. Corruption - Sin
  3. Catastrophe - Noah's Flood
  4. Confusion - Babel - People separated
  5. Christ - Came to earth
  6. Cross
  7. Consummation - Heaven
• If you can't trust the Bible's History why should you trust the rest of it?
• We have lost Biblical authority in our culture which is our foundation
• 1 Peter 3:15

  ... Always be prepared to give an answer ...

• Christianity is not a blind faith.
• We've disconnected the Bible from reality.
• We need to connect what the Bible records to reality.
• We're teaching the Bible as a book of stories.
• People don't understand the real History of the world.
• God created a perfect world:
  • Genesis 1:29-30

    ... I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ...

• Genesis 9:3

  ... I now give you everything. ...

• Death in the World:
  • Genesis 2:17
  • Genesis 3:19
  • Romans 5:12
  • Romans 8:22
  • 1 Corinthians 15:22
• Our God of Love loves us so much that He saved us when we rejected Him.
• There are no innocent people in the world.

Geology

• Grand Canyon
• Billions of dead things laid down in layers all over the earth
• Fossils form quickly in the right conditions.
  • "Scientists create petrified wood in days" - MSNBC.com

Chemistry

• Life is build on DNA.
• Book: "In the Beginning Was Information" by Dr. Werner Gitt

Biology

• Different combinations of gene pools create variety.
• Secular scientists propose global flood on Mars, a global flood on earth would destroy millions of years

Anthropology

• Where did Cain get his wife?
  • Genesis 5:4
  • Book: Where Did Cain Get His Wife? by Ken Ham
  • Originally brothers married sisters
• We're all related.
• Marriage: one man, one woman
• Now there are mistakes in genes after the fall.
• If close relatives married, the mistakes can reinforce eachother.
• You're always marrying a relative.
• American Indians, Aborigines have stories about flood and Eden.

Dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs were land animals. They were made on Day 6 of Creation. They ate plants before sin.
• Fossils are created be dead things being quickly covered.
• The average dinosaur is the size of a sheep.
• There are 50 kinds or less of dinosaurs.
• Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens.
• There was plenty of room on the ark.
• Earth is depgrading - dinosaurs became extinct.

Summary

• If God created you, He sets the rules. If you evolved, then you set the rules.
• Genesis is the foundation for doctrine and marriage.
• Genesis 1-11 is the foundational History.
• Check out: www.AnswersInGenesis.org
• Books:
  • The Answers Book
  • The Annals of the World