Are the Genesis accounts of Creation and the Flood supposed to be true?
If the Genesis accounts of Creation and the Flood are fairy tales, then Christ didn’t know what He was talking about, since He clearly subscribed to both (Mt 19:4; Lk 17:26). Since the Gospel of John ascribes creation to Christ (Jn 1:1f), then clearly the Genesis account is true. In addition, the Bible clearly teaches that death came upon all men as a result of Adam’s sin (Rom 5:12). In other words, after God created man in perfection, man sinned and ushered in death (that is why he needs a savior). If evolution were true, then man’s existence was the result of death and dying, not the cause of it. As such, man would not be responsible for death as the Bible claims, and death would not be the last enemy to be defeated by the Savior (1 Cor 15:26). In essence, death would have been man’s friend via the evolutionary process (survival of the fittest), and not an enemy. In short, unless the Genesis accounts are true, then the whole essence of what Christianity is collapses. Man did not ushe
