Have you decided which creation account you believe in? I hope so. I certainly know which one I believe and with everything, I want to take the Bible literally when the context suggests a literal interpretation. If you haven’t decided yet, perhaps you will by the end of this lesson. There are 66 books in the Bible. That’s a lot of books! These books need some bookends to hold them up and it just so happens that they have them, Genesis and Revelation. We think of Genesis as being the beginning of creation and Revelation as being the end of the current creation and the beginning of a new one. Let’s compare what we have in the bookends of the Bible.

We are getting ready to embark on an excing journey into the beginning of it all! We find the origin of so many things in this book. I hope that you’ve read through the enre book of Genesis already just to get an idea of the layout. It’s a long book and it is a connected story that helps us piece together many of the things we read in the New Testament. The creaon account in the book of Genesis has long been under scruny. When we get down to brass tacks, there’s really only 2 possible explanations, 2 world views: