Question for Christians about Genesis?

Question

Okay so I'm researching different religions, and have looked into Christianity, but one part that stops me from pursuing the faith is the Old Testament, particularly Genesis. I just have a hard time believing in Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the creation story, etc.. What do the rest of you think about these stories... and if you're Christian, do you believe they're all true?

Answer 1

Yes, I believe all of Genesis is true. While led and inspired by God to write Genesis, the writer did not fully understand what He was writing. Some of the descriptions were difficult
for Him because He wasn't there during the actual happening.
Please go to http://www.answersingenesis.org for really good explanations.

Answer 2

Alicia I know exactly what you are saying. Those accounts are so fascinating some read like something out of a fantasy novel. Do not fret it is only because of your reference to the world that you are familiar with that makes Genesis seem weird.
This is what I mean. step outside day or night and look up at the vast endless miracle. Do you know that this world is literally traveling around the sun and we are not falling off? And likewise the oceans are not splashing into outer space? what's up with that? Just that alone would sound silly to a child or even some grownups for the first time. Quite frankly that still blows my mind.
Well it took a fantastic Omniscient God who created science to put together our fantasy universe. Now back to Genesis. That was an extraordinary time God had just created people who were capable of living indefinitely. Even after the fall Adam still reeked with enough left over staying power to live close to 1000 years!
I don't want to be long winded I just want you to open your heart and mind to a God who can literally do anything he wishes. One thing is sobering to me that I don't hear many Christians repeating often. In the bible (New Testament) it actually gives you the names of the people from whom Jesus(the man) descended and it goes from person to person all the way back to Adam! How many religions can make a literary claim like that?! Pray as you read and this same God will open your heartmind to his boundless demensions and love. This is exactly what the bible ment when it said seek and ye shall find.
You may email me if you need more support.
God Bless.

Answer 3

Believing Genesis isn't what saves you. Believing John 3:16 is what saves you. Once you get past that, you're on your way to believing everything else. That belief will come in time, as God gives further evidence to you, in particular.

Do I believe the Genesis accounts of Creation? Yes. For a long time, simply because of faith that God's Word is true, whether I believe it or not. But, now, also because I've been shown realistic evidence. Same goes for the Flood.

As for Adam & Eve, I understand that if it weren't for them, John 3:16 would have never been necessary.

Answer 4

Every time I see male and female, I see evidences of Adam and Eve. What is so hard to believe that it is them that were first, as opposed to Lord and Lady someone else?

I have no reason to disbelieve the Flood. There are many things that are attributed to an ice age, without due consideration to the Flood and what it would itself do, or whether it might not link to an ice age. There are too may mountainous places that look eroded by water, and are filled with ocean fossils, and too many salt seas inland, and too many glacial captives, who look like they must have been suddenly engulfed in the water frozen around them, and too many other factors - such as lack of literature taking us back before the times chronicled in the Sacred Scriptures - for me to doubt. I have seen pictures of somthing in an Armenian mountain (now in Turkey) that would be too wonderful a land formation. However, with the thin and freezing air up there, I cannot imagine anyone building anything colossal up there, nor could such a thing just get up there, as climbing with smaller bundles alone suffices for difficulty to many an adventurer.

Even the ancient Egyptians spoke of eight figures in a boat in the sky, which is where the Ark travelled to land eventually on a mountain of Ararat (in what came to be called Armenia). Some argue that because a certain layer of mud in the Euphrates only spread out so many miles, that indications of a great flood in Ur show it to be merely local - but this is silly and naive, as the mud from one river couldn't have covered all the world, but would rightly be expected to thin out at some point, while the watres of the flood outbounded it in greater supply above. (By the way, the geological proportions of time are the same as those recorded in the Scriptures, even if the speculated figures with which modern non-eyewitnesses flesh them out differ by muliples presumed to be correct according to methods that haven't been employed so as to be scanned for variations more more than the last handfull of generations, as with glacial measurements, etc.)

Answer 5

The bible is often referred to as " the Book of books" :)
The Book of Genesis is quite an intersting book in the Bible written by Moses. Though some of the accounts are difficult to believe they are none the less true. Let God be true and every man a liar:)
The Book of Genesis is a book largely of " types" and are like seeds that are developed throughout the whole bible and consumates or harvests in the Book of Revelation.

The Whole bible is a book of Life and is referred to as " Spirit and Life'
To truly tap into this book one needs to be regenerated with God as Life in their human spirit to truly have a revelation of what is IN the word.
Approaching the word merely as a study tool will definately confuse anyone.
There is an awesome site i'd give u that goes into detail of the " life study of Genesis" and its been a great help to so many seeking people.

http://www.ministrybooks.org/life-studies.cfm

Answer 6

If you're looking into Christianity, , I would suggest you go immediately to the New Testament (after all, that's where Jesus comes in....) unless you're planning on reading all the way through....

One of the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke or John) might be the best place to get an overview of Christ's time here.

All of Paul's letters (to the Ephesians, Colossians, Corinthians, Galatians, etc.) also give great stories of Christ's life and teachings.

You're really asking the wrong question, if you're genuinely seeking to know about Christianity.

Best advice I can give you is to pray that Christ himself will show you just what He wants you to study.

All the best to you.....

Answer 7

What evidence do you could have that Sumeria is in which the Garden of Eden was once any truly evidence was once washed away by means of a flood that protected a substantial element of earth (the complete identified global a minimum of) and destroyed any proof? The reality is it might were at any place in the world. As I have discovered from the Jews (and my possess faith) there are 2 creations. A religious one, as determined in Genesis one million. And here's knowledge Elohim is plural due to the fact that it's relating to God and his bigger part. As simply then he creates us spiritually. Let us guys (as in mankind) in our snapshot) in our snapshot, after our likenes. Male and feminine created They them. The latter side you look to be quoting the KJV why no longer keep on with the normal Hebrew? I can give an explanation for that Angus McCloud should you like - and I'm no longer side of the so referred to as Trinity.

Answer 8

The more time I spend studying the stories in the beginning of the Bible, the more interested I become in them for their spiritual teaching and the less worried I am about their literal truth.

Honestly, I really don't know anymore if they were ever intended for literal truth. Open up Genesis and read the story of Joseph. (This is an awesome example of what I'm getting at.)

Joseph is born into an important family, but far enough removed from the top of the Patriarchal ladder that his importance is immediately lessened (at least initially).

Even growing up, he proves to have a unique ability in deciphering messages from God (given in dreams). He makes grand predictions about his place in things, which all turn out to be true.

The very people who are supposed to love him end up betraying him for some pieces of silver, and he ends up standing in front of a foreign judge accused of a crime he did not commit. The judge is pretty sure he is innocent, but is manipulated into declaring him guilty and handing him over for punishment.

Despite being punished, he only stays down for a few days before he ends up sitting at the right hand of a mighty and powerful leader. In that position, he can now save not only his own family but essentially the rest of the world too, which he does before revealing his true identity to his family.

Somewhere along the way of reading this, you may have lost track of who we were reading about. It could be some guy named Joseph, or it could be another guy named Jesus. Their life story is the same, only the names are changed! So, is this some pointless historical tale about early Israel, or a prohpetic message about the Messiah who is coming to save Israel?? When I see the story of Joseph, I see a complete portrait of Jesus from birth to death and on through to resurrection. I really don't know if a man named Joseph ever really wore a coat of many colors or not, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the real point anyway.

Kind of long winded, sorry about that. Hope it helped answer your question though.

Answer 9

Creation closely paralells Science

Science says the universe is 12-15 billiion years old

The Sun and Earth are 4-5 billion years

Man is a newcomer

So does Genesis. EARTH AND SUN on 4th day 2/3 of the way to 6th day, same as their time line

MAN last few minutes of the 6th day or 99.5% of the way from creation

Adam and Eve first two people

DO you think there were a million NEADERTHAL EVOLVED AT ONCE

Some scientists say MAN mated with APE

Science can't justify a large GENE POOL so we inbreed, just as the Bible implies

Answer 10

I think given the fact that Christianity is not the only religion with a creationism story, a flood story, and a "hero has to die to save the world story" that there should be some merit in learning all the stories of old.