Is Genesis History or Poetry?

Chapters

00:00

Introduction

00:43

What do you say to the poetry claim?

01:53

Hebrew Poetry is about Parallelism

03:13

If it sounds like poetry…

05:25

You write poetry about history

07:41

Why do people believe the Bible and think it's poetry?

08:57

New Testament writers view Genesis as history

10:57

If you reject the Old Testament…then what?

12:10

Wrap-up

Genesis is NOT poetry. Rather, it is written as historical narrative, and affirmed by Jesus and the NT writers as true history, not myth.

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Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history

The use of Genesis in the New Testament

Yes, Genesis really is historical narrative

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