15 Reasons to take Genesis as history - Batten, Don; Sarfati, Jonathan (Eight Mile Plains, QLD : Creation Ministries International, Brisbane, 2006)
Reason 1 : Jesus took the Old Testament as history -- Reason 2 : Jesus regarded Adam, Eve and Noah as historical people -- Reason 3 : Genesis was written as history -- Reason 4 : The rest of the Old Testament takes Genesis as history -- Reason 5 : The New Testament takes Genesis 1-11 as history -- Reason 6 : Genesis history is consistent with God's nature -- Reason 7 : Genesis as history explains the the origins of death and suffering -- Reason 8 : The Gospel presupposes the historical events of Genesis -- Reason 9 : A consistent world view depends on Genesis as history -- Reason 10 : Denying the history of Genesis disconnects Christianity from the "real world" -- Reason 11 The early church leaders accepted the timeframe and global flood of Genesis -- Reason 12 : The Reformers understood Genesis as history -- Reason 13 : Atheism requires naturalism...Christians should not deny Genesis as history to accomodate it -- Reason 14 : Abandoning Genesis as history leads to heresy and apostacy -- Reason 15 : Why not take Genesis as history? Only the fallible speculations of historical "science" stand in the way -- What about science? Origins vs Operational science -- Why this matters.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Bible. -- Inerrancy; Creation vs science