Genesis—What Genre Is It?
Genesis and the Rest of the Bible
by Ken Ham on March 21, 2022Part 1
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This is Ken Ham, author of the new devotional commentary on Genesis, Creation to Babel.
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How should we interpret Genesis chapters one through eleven? Is it history, mythology, allegory, or symbolic poetry?
Many Christians struggle with this question. But it’s not because the text isn’t clear. It’s because so many want to fit evolution and millions of years into the Bible.
The text itself is clear that Genesis is history. The early chapters, one through eleven, read the same as the rest of the book. There’s no “genre switch” between creation, the flood, Babel, and then the accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. The whole book is a book of history!
As we’ll see this week, the testimony of all Scripture is that Genesis is history.
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Ken Ham is the Founder CEO of Answers in Genesis–US, the highly acclaimed Creation Museum, and the world-renowned Ark Encounter. Ken Ham is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America.
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