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Creationism: A look at Genesis and the Science

Behind it
By Kris Bjorgen, Ed.D., and Kennedy Banda, M.A.B.E.

Chapter 1: The Importance of Studying Genesis

Connect…

If you go to almost any museum of natural history in the entire world, they will teach you that the world
is 14.5 billion years old, formed by a colossal bang, and that 4.5 million years ago, the planet Earth
began to form. They will have fossils dated 500 million years ago showing how each life form changed
or evolved slowly over the years to form all other life forms. Is what is presented to us as FACT really
what happened? Doesn’t sound like the account in Genesis, does it?

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to describe how important the book of Genesis is, being the foundation
of the entire Bible.
2. The student should be able to list all the various “origins” found in the Book of Genesis.
3. The student should be able to show how other Old Testament and New Testament books validate the
authenticity of the book of Genesis

The Lesson ...

The Importance of Studying Genesis

Genesis forms the foundation of the world and biblical history. While the Bible would be considered the
book that has had the greatest impact on the world, it is really a compilation of many books, and the
book of Genesis is at the foundation of them all.

If the book of Genesis were removed from the bible, the rest of the bible would be incomprehensible. It
would be like a building with no foundation or a bridge with no support. The books of the Old Testament
chronicle the way that God dealt with the children of Israel. However, without the foundation of
Genesis, God seems capricious, bigoted, and provincial. It is through Genesis that we are able to
contextualize God’s progressive plan of redemption through Israel for all of mankind. In the New
Testament, we see God’s implementation and execution of His redemptive plan for mankind. However,
this plan can only find meaning when grounded in man’s fall and resultant depravity of Genesis. The
need for salvation and ultimately a Savior is established and recorded in the primeval history of man in
Genesis.