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So You Think Genesis 1-11 are Parables? - Jesus Didn't

I. This video blog is a response to a video that stevebob1967 on YouTube did called "Defending the Faith-RE: Pastor Wagner's "Dear Evolutionist, please become an Atheist".

II. Steve was charitable in his video response to me and I am going to try to show him the same courtesy.

III. Steve thinks that the first eleven chapters of Genesis and other parts of the Old Testament are parables that are not to be taken literally.

1. Steve thinks that the account of the creation of the world and of Adam and Eve are a parable.

A. Jesus and the apostle Paul didn't.

B. Mar 10:6 - But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

C. Mar 10:7 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

D. 1Co 15:45 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

E. 1Ti 2:13 - For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

2. Steve thinks that the account of the fall of Man is a parable.

A. The apostle Paul didn't.

B. Rom 5:12 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

C. Rom 5:13 - (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

D. Rom 5:14 - Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

E. 1Co 15:22 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

F. 1Ti 2:13 - For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

G. 1Ti 2:14 - And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

3. Steve thinks that the account of Cain and Abel is a parable.

A. Jesus and the apostles, Paul and John, didn't.

B. Mat 23:35 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

C. Heb 11:4 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

D. 1Jn 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

4. Steve thinks that the account of Noah's ark and the global flood is a parable.

A. Jesus and the apostles, Paul and Peter, didn't.

B. Luk 17:26 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

C. Luk 17:27 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

D. Heb 11:7 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

E. 1Pe 3:20 - Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

F. 2Pe 2:5 - And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

G. 2Pe 3:6 - Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

5. Steve thinks that the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the turning of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt is a parable.

A. Jesus and Jude didn't.

B. Luk 17:28 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

C. Luk 17:29 - But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

D. Luk 17:32 - Remember Lot's wife.

E. Jud 1:7 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

6. Steve likely thinks that the account of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is a parable.

A. Jesus didn't.

B. Mat 12:40 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

IV. Who are you going to believe: Jesus and the apostles, or Steve?