The whole Bible is his Word.
And Genesis provides us with the foundation of the gospel—it explains why Jesus had to become a man to be our redeemer.
It reveals that an initially “very good” creation was ruined by God’s curse because of Adam’s sin, a curse that affected the whole creation (Genesis 3:14–19, 5:29; Romans 5:12, 8:18–25).
We cannot reject the literal history of Genesis 1–11 without undermining the gospel.
If those chapters are mythical or symbolic, then Jesus died for a mythological or symbolic problem and is offering sinners a mythological and symbolic hope."
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