From I Chronicles 1 - 3:
1. Just a story - There is extensive "page real-estate" attributed to genealogy - showing (in this case) from Adam up through King David's line. This not only gives us some idea of the amount of time passing, but it also lends credibility to the bible. If the bible were just a bunch of stories that someone made up, they would not bother with three chapters of genealogies explaining about people we had never heard of and the entire line. The writer would just give the details that were useful in the telling of the story. If you look at any story written, (successful, anyways) the author focuses on things that will lend to the story. Genealogy does none of this. In fact, it breaks it up unnecessarily.
2. I was recently doing research on some topics for a youth talk and I discovered some interesting things about our genetic makeup that I was not aware of before. There are two terms that all Christians should find extremely interesting:
Y-Chromosomal Adam
mitochondrial Eve
Now tell me that Adam / Eve and the Noah flood were just stories.
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