Is Genesis History? Page #3

... we're not talking about a story about boiling water ...

... a certain temperature.

We're talking about a story that is ...

... with the origin of the universe.

Deals with the origin of life; The origin of humanity;

The origin of sin and why there is evil in the world;

The origin of geological formations ...

... we have around us; The origin of language.

I mean, this is not just any story.

He's dealing with very, very large elements of humanity ...

... and where we are today.

Yes.

You're talking about the origins of literally everything.

And I think if we turn away from all this and say, well,

What it is really the difference between these two paradigms ?,

It is not a question of science on one hand ...

... against religion on the other because both are scientific in the sense ...

... they are observing a common set of data.

The most profound difference is really ...

... Two historical views competing ...

What is the true history of our cosmos?

This seems to be the real question.

What is our true story?

What really happened?

The conflict is not between two views of science,

but between two views of history.

Since Genesis was written in Hebrew,

I wanted to talk to an expert in Hebrew.

What really was the original text?

The first word in Genesis is Braichit ...

Genesis 1:
1 is Braichit.

This is the beginning of Toledot Noah.

That word Toledot, is a very interesting word.

Sometimes it translated as "pedigrees".

Sometimes it translated as "history".

And what follows is the record of the Flood.

Steve, it seems that there is much history in the Bible.

Is that how you see it?

Oh, absolutely.

In fact, the first thing is that it is an accurate historical account.

The presentation is such in the perspective of writers ...

... they thought they were talking about real events.

It is very obvious from the way they insisted ...

... that the next generation learn its history.

When you see those early chapters in Genesis,

What do you see?

Can you give us show?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ...

No Hebrew word for the Universe.

This means that He created everything.

And the next thing we find in Genesis 1: 2 ...

... it is a water ball in space.

In the coming days, God will fill the universe.

Well, here you are talking about days.

Do you see this as literal days?

Is this what the text is telling us?

Or, you know, what other people think,

this is just a poetic way of a different point of view?

Well, first of all, is not poetry.

All major Hebraists the world say ...

... this is fiction.

And they say that one of the unique features ...

... the Genesis account of creation ...

... and the Deluge is that they are narratives,

because in the ancient East that was done in epic poetry,

which is very different.

And here we have a narrative to indicate that this is historic.

What this means is that you understand the words ...

... in the normal way these Hebrew words were understood.

The word "yom" means day.

The rationale for their use is what we refer to as day.

It is a 24-hour day.

The only way you'd want ...

... means a longer period of time is ...

... if you impose an alien concept to the text and say,

Well, I think these are ages ...

... so yom, it must mean ages.

What you have to do is start with the text.

If we start with the text, yom, it means day.

So when we got to the passage ...

... talking about the creation of Adam and Eve,

You're seeing is a clear historical event ...

... that would stand in direct opposition ...

... the conventional paradigm that man evolved ...

... from a long, long process.

The biblical text does not support ...

... with the conventional standard paradigm.

The Bible teaches that the Lord God formed man,

artfully blowing in the breath of life;

created in His image.

And then of course the woman is created.

We marriage.

We fall.

And then in the genealogy of Noah we have the complete account of the Flood.

And the Deluge, is a global flood?

Well, I do not know how many times,

35 times or so, the word "kol", which means "everything"

It appears in the narrative of the Deluge.

If this is a judgment on humanity, then it must be global.

And as we go through these first eleven chapters of Genesis ...

... we come to chapter ten, which is called the table of nations,

who are the sons of Noah.

It is mentioned in that chapter that people ...

... they are in different nations and languages.

So Moses returned in Genesis 11: 1-9 ...

... and explains how languages develop.

So we arrived at Toledot of Terah ...

... y el Toledot of Terah no va a ser acerca of Terah.

It will be about his famous son, Abraham.

It just seems so apparent that no ...

... disconnect between all of these things ...

... and everything we see in the beginning.

It's just a long historical narrative.

No?

So is. In fact,

pedigrees form the structure,

not only for Genesis, but the narratives are ...

... embedded in the genealogies.

Genealogies are taken and calls the Toledot ...

... in the book of Ruth to establish that David is ...

... a descendant of Judah, something required by the prophecy of Jacob.

And then we come to the New Testament.

How the pedigree of Jesus set?

With two genealogies, one that crosses the line of Mary ...

... until Adam.

Steve, in the light of all this we have seen,

how important is the historical narrative ...

... we found through Genesis,

including all generations shown,

How important is it for Christianity?

This shows that Christianity ...

... it has a historical basis.

It is what the Scriptures say ...

... and the scriptures represent actual historical data.

So Christianity is not a leap in the dark.

It is an understanding that has very strong historical bases,

and that our Savior is our Creator.

These genealogies are incredibly important.

If Jesus is descended from Adam,

and if Adam was created on the sixth day of creation,

then the Earth can not be very old.

So where do the millions of years?

I met a geologist in a place where he said ...

... we could understand this better.

You see the stillness,

the plain, nothing to bother.

And yet you have the reminder that in the past was explosive.

There was a volcano here behind a cinder cone volcano ...

... and the volcano spewed lava flow ...

... that spilled through the field.

A lot of basaltic lava.

Yes, but it is actually small compared ...

... with lava flows we see in many places.

And there are a thousand volcanoes around here ...

... and the little that is behind us ...

... we call cinder cone volcano.

You call that small.

Yeah, well, it is.

These volcanoes are small.

Mount St. Helens in 1980 when it erupted, well,

2,500 feet from the summit of the volcano flew,

but that was small compared with historical eruptions.

We can go a little further back ...

... to the great eruption of Yellowstone ...

... and a part of the volcanic ash ended up in Texas.

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