The Old Testament and Genesis
Genesis and the Rest of the Bible
by Ken Ham on March 23, 2022Part 3
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How did the Old Testament authors treat Genesis?
Well, First Chronicles lists genealogies going all the way back to Adam, with the same names as those given in Genesis chapters five and eleven.
Psalm 33 praises God for creation and says, “for he spoke, and it came to be,” not, “he spoke and millions of years later it came to be.”
In Isaiah 54, God makes a promise to the Israelites. He compares it to his promise from Genesis that floodwaters would never again cover the earth. That comparison makes no sense if Noah’s flood wasn’t a historical and global event.
The Old Testament authors treated Genesis as a historical account. And so should we!
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