Genesis is History!

PatriotandLiberty ^ | 2023 | Jonathan Sarfati

[spirited irish]

Hebrew grammar experts have shown that historical narratives in the Old Testament have a very distinctive verb pattern. They start with a type of verb called a qatal (perfect) and continue with another type of verb called the waw (vav,8 ו) consecutives, or wayyiqtols.9 This verb type is frequent in the historical books of the Old Testament.

Apply this to Genesis 1, the first verb, ברא bārā’ (create), is qatal, while the subsequent verbs that move the narrative forward are wayyiqtols (ויאמר wāyyō’mer (‘and … said’), ויהיwāyehi (‘and there was’), וירא wāyyāre (‘and … saw’). Thus this has just the pattern one would expect from a historical narrative.

[spirited irish]

ping

[ConservativeMind]

It looks like the whole article at the Patriot and Liberty site is pulled from here:

https://creation.com/genesis-is-history

[Trump_Triumphant]

I never doubted that it was.

[KittyKares]

Interesting. Thank you.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

One of the best books I have read on Genesis is “The Genesis Record” by Henry Morris.

[Larry Lucido]

They had a pretty good run.

[Terry L Smith]

Someone in some church i attended ‘before the Turn’, I heard say that ‘before Moses and the Pentateuch’, there was no evidence of any written history of man.’

[Sirius Lee]

I knew someone would go there. And yup.

[SisterK]

the presentation is not my taste, but this video exposes the mathematical impossibility of evolution

Fighting Fake Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiWplQH6co

[schaef21]

Bkmk

[Rockingham]

What kind of history does Genesis offer? The fundamentalist kind of history that insists that every detail, every jot and tittle are literally true? Or the Catholic kind that sees Genesis as morally and figuratively true but not literally true in every respect?

For example, in describing Creation as taking six days, does Genesis literally mean six days? Or does it mean to convey the sense of God working in an orderly and logical progression, stating that in a way that could be understood long before modern science? Since Genesis is not meant as a science text, the latter explanation seems the most credible.

[ViLaLuz]

Yes it is. One day we’ll understand more when Lord Jesus is our King.

[BDParrish]

Did you not read the article?
The point of the article was to refute exactly your position!

[dfwgator]

They were history when Peter Gabriel left.

[PLMerite]

I thought for a moment Hyundai had shut down production.

[MotorCityBuck]

😂

[moovova]

Somewhat credited to the creation.com site at the bottom of the PatriotandLiberty.com article.

[moovova]

Without Project Genesis (on Star Trek)...Spock wouldn't have come back from the dead.

[dfwgator]