In The Beginning

Why is it that dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Genesis account? Do the early chapters of Genesis really present us with a scientifically accurate portrayal of the creation of the universe, the solar system and the earth? Talking snakes? Did Adam really exist? Did his descendants really live for hundreds of years? If Adam and Eve were the first humans, where did Cain's wife come from? Today, many of the aspects of the early chapters of Genesis have come to be regarded as fables or as metaphors devised by primitive people to explain their origins. Yet the Apostle Paul obviously regarded Adam and Eve as people who really existed, describing parallels between Adam and Jesus. Was he wrong? If he was, what else did he get wrong? Traditional interpretations of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah and a worldwide flood may have seemed credible in before the Enlightenment and the focus on reason and science, but do they still hold up to present day examination? In this book, author Robert Laynton explores these early narratives from the opening verse up to the time of the birth of Abraham. He offers some radical new but coherent interpretations of the text that nevertheless remain consistent with Scripture as the Word of God.