Is Genesis History?

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Nehemiah6

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Actually plenty of Christians accepts that the Bible contains many genre of fiction and nonfiction including myths like found in genesis 1-11.
Why didn't you put "Christians" in quotes? And are you one of these "Christians" that believes such rubbish?
 
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pottersclay

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When a person reads the entire Bible in a timeline, chronological order, it becomes clear that we are reading about a historical story of God. The Bible is an accounting of the mysterious plan of God. We find that God tells us exactly what is going to happen and what He will do, and throughout the Bible, we find that the Lord recounts his actions over and over again. The Bible is a continual prediction of what will become history.
Amen to that saint but also the future 🤔🤔🤔
 

Mitaze1075

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I'm not one of them. Anyone who has experienced the Raw, Almighty Power of God will testify that all that is read in that unbelievable set of writings . . . is 100% the Holy and remarkable Truth.
I believe the Bible is 100% true as well. I just don’t think all of it is literal. Parables, symbolism, metaphors and myths are all literary techniques that convey truth. Literal is not synonymous with truth. So I think genesis 1-11 is 100% true, but not literal. Experiencing Yahweh does not mean we need to take genesis true either.
 

birdie

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I believe it is and the evidence of this is found in scripture and it points to a young earth. All you have to do is read it,
These videos are from those who interpret the evidence as they see it.
Thanks dlw for your question about whether the Bible is history.

One thing that is clear to me, is that the Bible is written in parable fashion. We read that fact in the Bible itself, but a lot of persons are not aware of it or outright reject it when God says it. We read in Mark 4, for example, "And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, " . The chapter goes on to point out that Jesus didn't even speak except in parables: "But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples ". It is not like this is an isolated scripture. Psalm 78 tells us that the law of God, which is the Bible, is given in parable form: "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable ". Mark 4 explains how parables work. There is an earthly story, but the words have hidden meanings. We might find the story familiar-sounding like all good earthly stories, but the hidden meaning is the realest meaning of all. For example, in the parable of the sower, the explanation is that the word is sown (even if the earthly story reminds us of earthly seeds). Further, thorns are not really meaning blackberry thorns or the like, but rather 'such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. " I believe Genesis, as all of the Bible, is written in this parable style.
 

2ndTimothyGroup

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I believe the Bible is 100% true as well. I just don’t think all of it is literal. Parables, symbolism, metaphors and myths are all literary techniques that convey truth. Literal is not synonymous with truth. So I think genesis 1-11 is 100% true, but not literal. Experiencing Yahweh does not mean we need to take genesis true either.
I hear you. For example, the Tree of Life was truly a fruit-bearing tree, but it was a symbol of the future Life-giving Christ.

The symbolism / Living analogies throughout the Old Testament are just mind-boggling. The Bible couldn't be written without a God leading the way.
 

dlw

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I believe Genesis is history and fact. In Genesis 5 and Matthew 1 we can get a good idea how long man has been on this earth. If anyone wants to put billions of years before the creation of man thats ok, i dont agree but we are free to believe what we want. My op was to show that through these videos that there is evidence for a young earth.
 

Evmur

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Can you elaborate on that more? Which parts would be considered a parable?
Oh ... people seems to think parables are just pretty stories, they are not they are fact and truth graphically presented. The truth and fact of man's fall from grace and the cause of it could not be made plainer than it is in Genesis.
 

dlw

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more evidence for a young earth
 

dlw

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Why the history in Genesis is important.