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What The New Testament Doesn’t Say

When professing Christians deny Biblical creation, we often point them to the Words of Jesus and the New Testament authors, which clearly affirm their own belief in Biblical creation. Because Christians are, by definition, people who believe what Jesus taught and clearly believed, this should be the end of the discussion, right? Not quite. While they may concede that Jesus, Paul, and others referred to Genesis, they often come back arguing that they did not do so in certain contexts, such as evangelism; or they argue that certain details of the Genesis narrative aren’t mentioned. And this is somehow taken as an argument against taking a historical view of Genesis as important for the Gospel and the Christian worldview. So, is what the New Testament doesn’t say a problem for Biblical creation?

An incomplete record?

The NT was written for a specific audience and

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