away back to the beginning and origin of the human race,” Lloyd-Jones said. “And there is nothing, surely, that is of more priceless value to us and to the Church in general than to be familiar with this very history. God does not merely give us teaching, he gives us history.”10 Some will inevitably wonder whether we can trust these stories. Surely some enthusiastic proponents in the church and even in the media exaggerated for effect. Indeed, they sometimes did. But these events unfolded in broad