01858nam a22002057a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001800067040001300085082001700098100001600115245007700131260008100208300002300289504004100312505119900353630004101552650002501593700003401618AU-EpEBC20111017203352.0080131t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780949906328  cAU-EpEBC  a222.1104/BAT  aBatten, Don  a15 Reasons to take Genesis as history /cDon Batten and Jonathan Sarfati  aEight Mile Plains, QLD :bCreation Ministries International, Brisbane,c2006  a30p ;bpbk ;c21cm  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aReason 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.  aBible.pO.T.pGenesis --xInerrancy.  aCreation vs science.  aSarfati, Jonathan,ejnt auth.