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Carl Lawrenz and John Jeske present an argument that a key to correctly understanding Genesis is the historical nature of all 10 of Genesis’ accounts of God’s saving activity. Each author brings a scholar’s knowledge of biblical Hebrew, a high view of Scripture as the verbally inspired and inerrant written Word of God, and a keen understanding of God’s plan of salvation centered in Jesus Christ....

basis of its double use in this one verse of Genesis, involving diverse subjects and objects, one can conclude that this verb root’s meaning is broad enough to include, on the one hand, a person’s trampling upon the head of a serpent and, on the other hand, the bruising or biting which a serpent may inflict upon a person’s heel as it is administering its crushing action. The bruising or biting, pernicious and painful as it may be, does not rob the champion of his complete victory. But crushing the
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