Because I’ve never read a verse or analysis that states that Genesis is to be read as a literal history,
and plenty, from a guy that knows more than either of us (Hank Hanegraaff) stating otherwise - Genesis and Revelation are allegorical.
I’ve learned long ago that “it’s in the Bible somewhere” isn’t an effective argument, even among those with a Biblical worldview.
I don’t think you can back up your assertion that Moses, Jesus and Paul stated that Genesis is a literal history.
I don’t share your high opinion of Hanegraaff, but would be surprised if he actually said Genesis was “allegorical.”
As to the other, it’s simply that I’m at work. Easy to do; I’ll bring the references later, and we’ll see whether yours was an honest question.
If Hank the crank Hannegraaff knows more than you, I feel sorry for you! His hatred for God's word is depressing.
1. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been studying and using Hebrew for over 30 years. Poetry has a very distinct style. Genesis 1— is the style of prose; not poetry.
2. Moses pens God’s own commentary on the days of creation in Exodus 20:9-11 —
“Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
They are to work 6 normal days, and then rest, because Yahweh made the universe in 6 normal days, and then rested on the seventh. Not work for 6 billion years, then rest for one.
3. Jesus “answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate’” (Matthew 19:4-6).
4. Paul treats Adam and the Fall as equally historical to Jesus and the Cross and Resurrection (Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:21, 45).
There you go.