Why I Believe in Defending Genesis

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Why I Believe in Defending Genesis

• If the foundations are destroyed, what can the
  righteous do?Psalm 113

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The Gospel

• Depends on the truth of Genesis
• Was Jesus really in the beginning?
• Was all really good when God rested on the
  seventh day?
• Was Paradise lost forever when Adam sinned?

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The Gospel

• Depends on the truth of Genesis
• Did the world receive the curse of thorns,
  difficulty, and death as Genesis states?
• Does the gospel give us a remedy and a taste of
  Paradise regained?

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IF

• The general evolution theory is true
• The entire Bible is wrong!
• The story of the flood is a myth
• Jesus wasmistaken.

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IF

• The story of the flood is a myth
• Jesus could not be Gods Son.
• The Gospel is false and worthless.

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IF

• The story of the flood is a myth
• The genealogy of Jesus is invalidated
• Peter was willfully ignorant when he spoke about
  the people forgetting the flood!

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If We Do Not Defend Genesis

• We cannot be set for the defense of the gospel.
• But the latter out of love, knowing that I am
  appointed for the defense of the gospel.
  (Philippians 117)

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If We Do Not Defend Genesis

• We cannot cast down imaginations and every high
  thing
• Casting down arguments and every high thing that
  exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
  bringing every thought into captivity to the
  obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 105)

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If We Do Not Defend Genesis

• Our children will not be prepared to face the
  challenges of school and media attacks on the
  foundations of their faith.

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If We Do Not Defend Genesis

• The church cannot be the pillar and ground of
  any other truth.
• But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know
  how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of
  God, which is the church of the living God, the
  pillar and ground of the truth. (1 Timothy
  315)

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Jurors and Us

• Jurors do not have to have degrees.
• Yet, the accused persons life depends on their
  ability to sort out the truth.
• Likewise, we can listen to the degreed evolution
  professors, cross-examine the degreed creation
  scientists, and examine what they say.

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Jurors and Us

• Jurors do not have to have degrees.
• As jurors in possession of all the evidence, we
  can draw proper conclusions.
• Eternal life is hanging in the balance!
• God forbid we grow dull of hearing the evidence!

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Genesis Is Foundational!

• There are good, solid reasons for believing that
  it is a myth that Genesis is a myth!
• There are good, solid reasons for believing that
  Genesis explains our world better than the
  imaginations of atheistic evolutionists.

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Genesis Is Foundational!

• When the gospels foundations are attacked, we
  must be trained and ready to defend it at the
  foundational level!

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When Genesis Is Attacked

• We cannot stick our heads in the sand.
• There is abundant evidence to support the
  accuracy of the Genesis record.