"Jesus clearly believed Genesis as history.
For example, He referred to marriage at “the beginning of creation” , and to the global flood of Noah.
This is a problem for those who profess to be Christian (to follow Christ) yet do not believe Genesis as Jesus did.
One errant ‘solution’ put forward is that Jesus was mistaken; that He did not have the benefit of modern evolutionary ‘science’ and so was ignorant of the reality that we now ‘know’; that ‘creation’ began billions of years ago and there was never a global Flood. That is, Jesus was just reflecting His limited knowledge of the past events and the cultural ignorance of His day.
This view is sometimes justified by referring to Jesus saying that He did not know when certain future events would happen. That is, they generalize Jesus’ stated voluntary, specific limitation regarding future events to knowledge of past events that Jesus witnessed.
This deficient view of Jesus often comes with the ‘kenotic heresy’, which teaches that Jesus emptied himself of his divinity, which is clearly wrong.
The Bible clearly tells us that Jesus was present at creation; that creation happened through/by Him, so He can hardly have been ignorant of the details, including the timeframe.
Furthermore, in His earthly ministry, Jesus said that He only spoke what the Father told him to speak:
For example, He referred to marriage at “the beginning of creation” , and to the global flood of Noah.
This is a problem for those who profess to be Christian (to follow Christ) yet do not believe Genesis as Jesus did.
This view is sometimes justified by referring to Jesus saying that He did not know when certain future events would happen. That is, they generalize Jesus’ stated voluntary, specific limitation regarding future events to knowledge of past events that Jesus witnessed.
This deficient view of Jesus often comes with the ‘kenotic heresy’, which teaches that Jesus emptied himself of his divinity, which is clearly wrong.
The Bible clearly tells us that Jesus was present at creation; that creation happened through/by Him, so He can hardly have been ignorant of the details, including the timeframe.
Furthermore, in His earthly ministry, Jesus said that He only spoke what the Father told him to speak:
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me. John 12:48-50So if Jesus only spoke what the Father told him to speak, and if Jesus was mistaken about anything, then so was the Heavenly Father." CreationRevolution
