by Terry Wane Benton<\/p>\n
Jesus was there (John 1:1f); He said the story is factual (Mark 10:1-6) and that Satan was the liar from the beginning (John 8 ). The Spirit confirmed through Paul that death entered the world through Adam (Romans 5), and Satan’s head would be crushed (Genesis 3:15 compares to Romans 16:20). Thus, the greatest witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, say that Genesis is factual history. Therefore, we can trust the risen Jesus, who verified that Genesis is factual and true over the unverifiable myth of general evolution deceptively packaged as “science.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Terry Wane Benton Jesus was there (John 1:1f); He said the story is factual (Mark 10:1-6) and that Satan was the liar from the beginning (John 8 ). The Spirit confirmed through Paul that death entered the world through Adam (Romans 5), and Satan’s head would be crushed (Genesis 3:15 compares to Romans 16:20).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[568,302,189],"class_list":["post-69982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-accuracy-of-the-bible","tag-creation","tag-genesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83314,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-flood\/","url_meta":{"origin":69982,"position":0},"title":"The Flood","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton \"By which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water\" (II Peter 3:6). 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