Bible's View Of The Creation And The Flood

The Creation and the Flood

So what about the Bible’s account of all this? Edward J. Young a highly respected Hebrew scholar says “Genesis One is not poetry or saga or myth, but is straightforward, trustworthy history” (Studies in Genesis One). Genesis is quoted more frequently in the Bible than any other book. There are over 100 quotations or direct references to Genesis 1-11 in the New Testament alone. (Henry Morris, The Genesis Record). In none of these instances is there any hint whatsoever that the writers questioned the events as being anything other than actual history. This includes Peter, John, and Paul. Jesus also taught that Genesis was literal history. He said to the Pharisees “Have you not read that He who created them from the

Among creationists, some believe that the earth was created recently. This view takes the days of creation in Genesis as literal, that Adam and Eve were real people and that there was a global flood. Other creationist believes in God but say that the book of Genesis is not to be taken literally and that God directs evolution. Among these views are the

The GAP theory (ruination-reconstruction): Ancient and Recent Creations. Ryrie made this famous. There is a huge gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Genesis 1:1 describes the initial creation and includes the geological ages and then God destroys the old creation (possibly because of the fall of Satan) and re-creates it in 1:3. Now it may be true that there was a time gap between 1:1 and 1:2 but if you say there were animals, humans, etc. then God destroyed all of it without even telling us about it. Also it does not explain well how the creation was destroyed and the fact that the Bible claims sin entered the world at Adam’s time not before. While this theory was popular for a short time after Ryrie’s Bible notes came out, very few people actually hold this