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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....

detail, some things are even repeated again and again, while other matters, for which we may have looked, are passed over altogether in silence. We will want to note what is emphasized in the creation account as proper background for the message of Genesis. 1בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. With the Masoretic Hebrew text, verse 1 should be taken as an independent sentence. This analysis has, without exception,
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