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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.

This is a sample of two chapters from the Genesis – Creationism Course

Study Section 1: The Importance of Studying Genesis

1.1 Connect.

If you go to most 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 forms 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?

1.2 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

1.3 The Importance of Studying Genesis

Genesis forms the foundation of 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 can 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.

The word Genesis means “origin”. In it we find the information about the origin
of all things. When we know the origin of something, we can understand the
meaning for its existence. Further to understand where we are going – our

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