Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
I often am asked why is accepting Genesis as History important. In fact only this week someone stopped by my compound and asked me why I believed the earth was young. I gratefully typed my answer thus: “In Genesis, the true history of the earth, there is a a genealogy of the first human beings, from Adam, leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ, the “last Adam”. If the first Adam was in fact not created when the Bible indicates (about 6,000 years ago) and that he did not disobey God so that sin and death entered the world…