Are there still people who believe that Genesis is factual not mythological?

Question

I am sadden but not schocked by the answers. Of the first 29 at least 17 believe Genisis is literal/factual. One young lady said it best, "Nothing you can say would change my mind." \People defend beliefs as if they were facts and there is no proof that could undo these beliefs. the most ardent use the same book that tells the myths as the proof the myths are real.

Answer 1

I sure hope not

Answer 2

What part of it do you find not factual?

Fact: God created everything. (Science can only determine the method, not the One responsible)

Fact: Man is made from the elements of the earth. Have you found in man something besides the 97 naturally occurring elements found in the earth (or dust)?

Fact: Science has shown that genetically all human beings descended from a single female and single male.

Fact: The Bible says that different races came to be because people spread out into the different parts of climates of the earth. This agrees with what science teaches.

Fact: Man has dominion over all the other creatures on earth. They determines their fate.

Fact: Man in made in the image of God, which the Bible says means he has the ability to make moral choices, and is responsible for the consequences of those choices.

Fact: A great disaster that affect the whole earth, changed the climates and season, and included floods destroyed much of life on earth and changed the dominate species. Most likely cause was a meteor, but not specified in the Bible.

Which of these is a "myth"?

Answer 3

Yep, and so did Jesus.

Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of creation "God made them male and female."

Mar 13:19 for there will be affliction in those days, such as has not been the like from the beginning of creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mat 24:38 For as they were in the days before the flood: eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark.
Mat 24:39 And they did not know until the flood came and took all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.

If Jesus took it as facts, since He is God and would know, then that is good enough for me.

Answer 4

Yep. Next question?

Edit:
Don't be sad, helping hand, we feel exactly the same sense of frustration you do. You do realize that evolution started out as a Babylonian myth, don't you? (google "Enuma Elish"). For people now, all the evidence always seems to conform to their own cosmological presuppositions. Odd, isn't it? What you seem to have trouble admitting is that all human knowledge of origins is limited by our separation in time and space from the relevant events, requiring enormous amounts of speculation to accurately "wind the clock back." Cosmology is an open game, and playing the condescension card does not advance any of the serious players.

Answer 5

Yes, but I am not one of them. For one thing, the first chapter of Genesis clearly states that birds, fish and animals were created before man...yet the 2nd chapter just as clearly states that God created man, put him in the Garden of Eden, realized that man was alone, and THEN created the animals and birds. In addition, the great flood of Noah supposedly destroyed every person on the planet besides the people on the ark (only 8 of them)...yet less than 300 years later, according to a literal reading, Abraham was born, and in his subsequent travels (at the age of 75) he encountered the Egyptians, pharaoh, princes and all. The 4 women on the ark must have been incredibly fertile...not only did they manage to successfully repopulate their own race in less than 300 years, but entire other civilizations as well.

Answer 6

And the sad fact about this question is that there are overwhelming numbers of people who only know their own rational mind and cannot even comprehend of a Divine Source higher than a Human Being. The Myth is believing Man can rationalize everything.

Answer 7

just as many who believe that unintelligent dead matter could create intelligent life. and that the whole conplex universe has no creator yet was just created by chance after a large explosion. it would be like taking apart a pocket watch throwing all the random pieces in a box shaking the box then opeining to find the watch working perfectly. then having the watch progress into a fully functinal alarm clock

Answer 8

Many do believe that it is fact, although I am not one of them. It's almost as if by letting go of it as a literal truth would send their faith into a major crumble. I find it a magical way of explaining how the earth and life began before any scientific knowledge was explored.

Answer 9

Yes, I do. There are scientists out there who have evidence supporting creation as written in Genesis. Ken Ham is one of the leading scientists in this field. Have a look at the link I have provided. Read it and then make up your mind.

Answer 10

Yes. Every day the Scientists are discovering more proofs of the "myths" place in reality by the way. The more they discredit the Genesis of Creation the more technology upholds it's authenticity and truths.

Answer 11

Jesus does.

I believe Jesus is real because I have experienced God's presence, miracles, seen angels and tested God's word:

http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/bible.html

You can prove God's Word in 3 ways::

1. Do the word in doctrine and witness truth in your life-

John 7:16-17:
"...'My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself.' "

2. The Holy Spirit will bear witness of Christ (Jesus is the Word of God - John chapter 1)-

John 15:26:
" 'When the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me.' "

3. Confirming signs-

Mark 16:20:
"And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the Word by the signs that followed."

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