Let There Be no Doubt: Summation of Summations #3 (The Genesis Series, Part 57)

When you start upside-down, don’t expect to end rightside-up.  The god of the world’s academics is evolution, and foundational to their theory is the doctrine of uniformitarianism.  They use this hypothesis to create the “billions of years” needed for evolution. Their position is that the key to the past is the present.  By looking at the changes in earth’s geology that can be measured, and because they claim that the earth’s geology moves along at a uniform pace, they claim to be able to extrapolate backward to the purported “Big Bang.” 

The Bible declares two major geological events that no one would call uniform:

1. Genesis, Chapter 1, the six 24-hour days of Creation itself.  If a uniformitarian had happened upon Adam just 15 minutes after Adam opened his eyes, that uniformitarian would assume 13.8 billion years of history, yet Adam was only 15 minutes old.  No one would call Creation “geologically uniform.” 

2. Second is the global flood in the days of Noah, clearly laid out in Genesis.  The entire earth was destroyed along with everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils, with the notable exception of Noah and his entourage. There are marine fossils found on every mountain peak.  No one would call the global flood “geologically uniform.” 

When one begins upside-down in unbelief, the most absurd becomes their truth.  According to the uniformitarians, there was a big bang out of nothing—a fortuitous accident—and here we are!  The mushroom is their first cousin, the banana their second cousin, and the monkey is their father.  Really upside-down.

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GOD SAID, Genesis 9:2:

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

GOD SAID, Genesis 11:1:

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

GOD SAID, Genesis 17:12:

And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

MAN SAID: If God authored the Bible, where are all the God-inspired truths in His first book, Genesis? There isn’t any!

Now THE RECORD: Welcome to GodSaidManSaid feature 1277 that will, for the 1,277^th time, certify the marvelous, supernatural inerrancy of God’s beautiful Book.  All of these faith-building features are archived here in text and streaming audio for your edification and to be used as ammunition in the raging battle for the lost souls of the sons and daughters of Adam.  Every Thursday eve, God willing, they grow by one.

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You have arrived at the GodSaidManSaid “Genesis Series;” this is Part 57.  Each of these features begins with the following information from the first feature:

According to a 2006 issue of Discover magazine concerning the deceased Carl Sagan: “Sagan approaches religion like any phenomenon.  He isn’t on a quest for life’s meaning, for a comforting philosophy, or even a guide to how we should treat the neighbors.  Sagan seeks truth of a demonstrable kind.  As a puckish example, he wonders why the book of Genesis didn’t include God-inspired truths…” [End of quote]

The BORN AGAIN scratch their heads in bewilderment.  Did these folks actually read the book of Genesis?

For the first 45 features of the Genesis Series, we poured through reams of information, boiling it all down to a manageable weekly presentation.  From there, it took us nine weeks of summations, boiling these 45 features down even more.  And now, we are in the final week of “summation of summations,” where we will render the original content into powerful soundbites.  God-inspired truths stacked. 

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132. This feature focused on genetic proofs for the Genesis declaration, in particular on Noah’s three sons and their wives, as well as goats, sheep, and dogs. Science writer Brian Thomas writes under the heading, “Does Modern Genetics Confirm a Historical Adam?,” in the April 2016 issue of Acts and Facts:

Geneticists have found evidence for Eve in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). We inherit this kind of genetic code from our mothers, and it accumulates mutations like nuclear DNA does.  Every person tested so far has one of three fundamental lineages, or versions, of mtDNA: M, N, or R. The wives of Noah’s three sons explain this intriguing detail of modern human genetics. 

133. Keep in mind, there were seven pair of clean animals, such as goats and sheep, and one pair of unclean animals, such as dogs and cats, selected to escape the world devastating flood. The headline at SearchForTheTruth.net reads, “Goat/Sheep Match Biblical Record.”  The following paragraph is from that feature:

For instance, DNA testing has now revealed that all living goats are descended from five original female goats and all living sheep are descended from three or four original females.  But why multiple original pairs and not from one original goat or sheep pair?  Once again, the Bible has the answer. 

134. Noah was instructed by God to only take one male and one female of unclean beasts upon the ark.  No matter where they search, they always end up here.  Consider this excerpt from the July 13, 2013 issue of Science News,  “Extinct wolf may have begat dogs:”

Researchers have long assumed that dogs branched off from a still-living wolf species.  Geneticists have combed the world looking for wolf populations that most closely resemble dogs genetically, and concluded that dogs originated in the Middle East or Southeast Asia. [End of quote]

As you should suspect, the dog population today came from one male and one female on Noah’s Ark, which landed on the mountains of Ararat, which are located in Turkey, a Eurasian country that bridges southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. [End of quotes]

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135. Genesis 9:2: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Dr. T. Grandin writes in the November 1997 issue of Western Horseman:

In all animals, both genetic factors and experience determine how an individual will behave in a fear-provoking situation. Fearfulness is a stable characteristic of personality and temperament in animals.

136. An interesting thing about an animal''s fear is that when fear is experienced or placed in an animal, it can never be erased. Again, Dr. Grandin writes:

The fear circuits in an animal''s brain have been mapped by neuroscientists. When an animal forms a fear memory, it is located in the amygdala, which is in the lower, primitive part of the brain. J.E. LeDoux and M. Davis have discovered that fear memories cannot be erased from the brain. [End of quote]

137. God has preprogrammed and placed upon all land and aquatic creatures the fear and dread of man.  This fear and dread is passed along genetically and neurologically.  This programming includes an ability to detect man’s scent, and the ability to recognize that man is made in the image of God, walks upright like God, and that man speaks just like God.

138. The paragraph heading in the May 6, 2019 feature “Ecology of Fear,” published by Current Biology Magazine, reads: “Fear of the human super-predator.”  Excerpts follow:

New research on the ecology of fear is focusing on the impacts of animals’ fear of the human ‘super-predator.’ 

Experiments testing how fearful wildlife are of the human super-predator have demonstrated that impala, deer, European badgers and mountain lions fear hearing playbacks of humans (simply conversing calmly) far more than hearing the vocalizations of their non-human predators; and even elephants flee at hearing people speak.   

139. Nearly 4,000 years ago, God said animals would fear and dread humans, and today’s science confirms it—animals fear and dread humans, even a global and all-inclusive issue. 

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140. God makes inquisition for innocent blood that was shed and He says to Cain, "What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother''s blood crieth unto me from the ground." Nearly 6,000 years before man knew the reason why, the Creator of the universe said that blood could cry out from the earth. Today it would be commonly called forensic science and the "voice" of shed blood can be heard.

141. Blood most certainly has a voice.  The following paragraphs are from the feature, “#326 The Science of Blood: How Forensic Scientists Unravel Crime Scenes,” published by Tiago Vasconcelos, August 18, 2024.  Keep in mind that God says blood has a VOICE:

In the world of forensic science, blood is one of the most telling pieces of evidence at a crime scene. It speaks volumes, revealing details about the events that unfolded, the weapon used, and even the identity of those involved.  Forensic scientists, particularly those specializing in blood analysis, play a crucial role in interpreting these clues, helping to reconstruct the crime and bringing perpetrators to justice.

142. Blood does, in fact, cry out for justice, just like God’s Word declares in the very beginning.  And now, predictably, here comes science to confirm it years later.  Genesis, one God-inspired truth after another.

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143. Genesis 9:6: Whoso sheddeth man''s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 

God’s laws contain a list of death commandments, which would be known in today''s legal parlance as capital crimes, crimes punishable by death. Capital, as we are speaking of it, is derived from Latin, and it means the head, as in the highest part of man. Noah Webster''s 1828 dictionary defines capital as "punishable by the loss of head or of life; punishable with death."

144. Concerning repeat crimes, this following excerpt is from the 1988 Standard Law Review: “Of the roughly 52,000 state prison inmates serving time for murder in 1984, an estimated 810 had previously been convicted of murder and had killed 821 persons following their previous murder convictions. Executing each of these inmates would have saved 821 lives.” God’s commandment of capital punishment is correct.

145. This following paragraph was found in the book Capital Punishment:

One particular study shows that convicted criminals, at a ratio of five to one, believe that the death penalty would deter them from murdering their victims.

145. Again, The New American article engaged the claims that the death penalty is racist. It reads:

The claim that the death penalty unfairly impacts blacks and minorities is a deliberate fraud. The majority of those executed since 1976 (1976-1999) have been white, even though black criminals commit a slim majority of murders. If the death penalty is racist, it is biased against white murderers and not blacks.  

146. God’s perfect commandment in this imperfect world does at least the following:

1. It deters murder.

2. The families whose loved ones have been slain see the final chapter of their terrible ordeal written, and the book closed.

3. Innocent blood is accounted before God.

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147. During the 1,656 years preceding the global flood in the days of Noah, things were dramatically different than they are today and one of the major differences was a water canopy that existed above the sky or firmament (Genesis 1:6-8).

148. It is important to note that prior to the flood of Noah there is no record of rain. Genesis 2:5-6:

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

God watered the earth with a mist. The first record of rain is in the days of Noah when God opened the windows of heaven. Note that the token of the covenant God gave to Noah, which assured Noah that He would not destroy the whole earth again by a flood, was a rainbow. A rainbow appears to be something Noah had never seen before.

149. In his Study Bible, Dr. Henry Morris notes the following concerning the rainbow:

9:13 my bow: The rainbow, requiring small water droplets in the air, could not form in the pre-flood world, where the high vapor canopy precluded rain (2:5).  After the flood, the very fact that rainfall is now possible makes a worldwide rainstorm impossible, and the rainbow “in the cloud” thereby becomes a perpetual reminder of God’s grace, even in judgment.   

150. According to Dr. Snelling in the book Genesis Flood Revisited:

If a pre-Flood vapor canopy did exist, then the computer simulations substantiate the claim that under canopy conditions it is quite likely that there would have been no rain on the earth’s surface prior to the Flood.  Indeed, there is a consensus that under canopy climatic conditions, the earth’s surface would have been watered by “mists,” exactly as stated in Genesis 2:6.

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151. Genesis 9:24-25:

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

The word "drunken" is first found in Genesis 9:21. This is the first account of the existence of alcoholic beverages and of someone suffering the effects of alcohol, and it happened to none other than Noah.  Some creation scientists suggest that Noah was blindsided.

152. Foundational names in Genesis like Canaan, Ishmael, and Esau have one thing in common: God’s judgment is upon them.  These three, in large part, have amalgamated together under the common banner of Ishmaelites, or Muslims.

They will find themselves complicit in bringing about the great and horrendous world-ending battle of Armageddon. Imagine, the first occurrence of alcoholic beverages will go on to participate in the battle of Armageddon.

153. The cost in broken homes, ruined careers, premature death from livers to the highway, ruined minds, and even seriously damaging the unborn child in the womb is beyond calculation and a precursor of the judgment to come.  The devastating effects of alcohol are, in fact, like an Armageddon on the world''s population.

154. In Proverbs 23:31, it reads: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

In other words, don''t drink the wine after it has fermented.

155. From Archaeology and Bible History:

In summary, we are left with the Biblical condemnation of alcoholic drink, and a definite denunciation of drunkenness as sin. Nowhere is moderate drinking given approval.  

156. The January 3, 2025 ABC News headline blared: “Surgeon General Warns of Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Cancer Risk.”  Excerpts follow:

The US surgeon general issued an advisory on Friday warning of a link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk. 

Consuming any type of alcohol, including beer, wine, or spirits, increases the risk for at least seven different types of cancer, including breast cancer for women, as well as cancers of the colorectum, esophagus, larynx, liver, mouth, and throat, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote in a post on X, announcing the release of the advisory.

157. When God’s Word speaks, the wise children of faith give diligent ear.  Noah, Ham, Canaan, Armageddon, and alcohol.  The word is total abstinence. There is no moderation. Be free!

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158. The following excerpts are from Bill Cooper’s book, After the Flood. Mr. Cooper comes with considerable academic accolades.  Mr. Cooper writes:

When I first came across this problem some thirty years ago, I found it most perplexing.  On the one hand, I had the Bible itself claiming to be the very Word of God, and on the other I was presented with numerous commentaries that spoke with one voice in telling me that the Bible was nothing of the kind.

The test I devised was a simple one.  If the names of the individuals, families, peoples, and tribes listed in the Table of Nations were genuine, then those same names should appear also in the records of other nations of the Middle East.  Archaeology should also reveal that those same families and peoples are listed in Genesis (or not as the case may be) in their correct ethnological, geographical, and linguistic relationships.

159. Mr. Cooper traced 112 names, concluding:

Today I can say that the names so far vindicated in the Table of Nations make up over 99% of the list, and I shall make no further comment on that other than to say that no other ancient historical document of purely human authorship could be expected to yield such a level of corroboration as that!  And I will add further that modern biblical commentators must make of it what they will.

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160. Genesis 11:9: Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 

One of the Bible’s most maligned accounts concerns the Genesis record of Babel, its tower of rebellion, and the confounding of the once-common language. 

The Bible records that, until the time of Babel, everybody spoke the same language.  In the city of Babel, Nimrod and his followers decided to build a tower to heaven. They wanted to make a name for themselves—an ungodly name.  God, seeing that nothing could restrain them from their foolish and wicked endeavor, decided at this place to confound their language.  It was there in the city of Babylon that God created diversity of languages. 

161. From the beginning, Y-Chromosome Adam and mtDNA Eve were downloaded with very sophisticated language skills. One common language root should have been obvious.  In defense of the world’s wisest, I should note that the world’s common parentage was only uncovered in the last few decades.  Evidently, they haven’t had the time to update their unbelief.

162. Regarding Babel and one common language, historian Josephus states in his book, The Antiquities of the Jews:

The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon; because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, Confusion.  The Sibyl also makes mention of this tower, and of the confusion of the language, when she says thus:—“When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven; but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave everyone his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.”  [End of quote]

163. George Smith, the staff member of the British Museum who translated the Babylonian account of the Flood, published the following mind-boggling translation of an ancient fragment found in the excavations.  This is what the Babylonians had written:

The building of this temple offended the gods.  In a night, they threw down what had been built, they scattered them abroad and made strange their speech.  The progress then impeded. 

164. Discover magazine, March 2002, published the following in a review of M.C. Baker’s book, The Atoms of Language: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar:

Baker, a cognitive scientist, argues that most, if not all, languages conform to a common set of rules.  Mapping these rules, says Baker, could produce a periodic table of language, a single framework from which all tongues are derived.  [End of quote]

165. Adam was downloaded with highly sophisticated language skills by his Creator.  Adam and Eve passed the common language they spoke together onto their children, who passed it down to Noah and beyond to Babel where that common language was confounded nearly 4,300 years ago.  Third-party, highly credentialed confirmations abound. 

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166. The historicity of Abraham, the father of faith, has been roundly challenged through time by Biblical antagonists, but that doesn’t change the absolute accuracy of the Bible’s portrayal of this mighty and pivotal man of God.  Was there a Father Abraham?  There is NO DOUBT!!!  

167. When God spoke to Abraham, He said He would multiply his seed as the "stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore." Hebrews 11:12 refers to Abraham’s seed as innumerable.  From a faithful man named Abraham, a vast multitude followed, embracing as much as three quarters of the world’s people. At a two-percent growth rate, approximately 160 million people would be added to the ranks of Abraham on an annual basis.

168. In an attempt to estimate the stars of heaven, Dr. DeYoung offered the following calculation in the book Astronomy and the Bible:

The stars we can easily see are all in our corner of the Milky Way Galaxy. The entire galaxy numbers about 100 billion stars. And beyond the Milky Way are other galaxies with many shapes and sizes. Around 100 billion such galaxies are known to exist. Taking the Milky Way as an average galaxy, the total number of stars is 10 to the twenty-second power. This figure would be pronounced as "ten billion trillion" stars.

169. A final excerpt from Dr. DeYoung’s book is a calculation of the sand on the world’s seashores. It reads:

Let us consider a rough estimate for all the sand grains on the seashores of planet Earth. We will depict this total as a block of sand that is 10 feet deep, 100 feet wide, and 1,000,000 miles long. This length equals 42 trips around the world, a generous figure for the extent of the world’s sandy beaches.  [End of quote]

After a series of complicated computations, the result is that the sand upon the seashore equals 10 to the twenty-second power. This is the same number used by astronomers when they estimate the stars of heaven: 10 to the twenty-second power.

170. Abraham was not a Jew by birth.  He was from Ur of the Chaldees, the land he left at the age of 75.  According to the ancient historian Josephus, Abraham left the land of the Chaldees once his study of astronomy and mathematics made it clear to him that there was only one God over all, and He alone was to be worshipped and feared.  This revelation was not well received by the Chaldeans, who held a polytheistic religious view.

171. Concerning Egypt and Abraham’s time there, Josephus writes:

He communicated to them arithmetic, and delivered to them the science of astronomy; for, before Abram came into Egypt, they were unacquainted with those parts of learning; for that science came from the Chaldeans into Egypt, and from thence to the Greeks also. [End of quote]

172. Be of good cheer, child of God!  Your faith in God’s Word will never be disappointed.  Not only did God’s mighty Abraham once live just as the Bible declares, his remains remain with us to this very day in the cave of Machpelah, which Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite.  The cave of Machpelah is found in the Israeli city of Hebron.   This cave is one of great contention—the Muslims, Jews, and Christians all lay claim to it.  Was there a Father Abraham?  Of course yes.  His remains remain with us to this very day.

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173. The place is called Mamre and it surely plays a foundational role in the Gospel message (Genesis 13:18).

174. At Mamre, the LORD (along with two angels) speaks to Abraham and Sarah, telling them that, in their old age, they would have a son whose name would be Isaac. This child, Isaac, would be the child of promise and through him, the Christ would come into this world and redeem all those who would call upon His name.

175. At Mamre, Abraham negotiates with God regarding his nephew Lot, who lived with his family in Sodom, and the annihilation of the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain, which was imminent.

176. Mamre was first excavated in 1926 by German archaeologist Evaristus Mader.  When Mader first began his excavation, it was simply a large mound of dirt known by Arabic locals as “The Height of the Sanctuary of the Friend.” 

Take note that the Arabs know this place as “The Height of the Sanctuary of the Friend.”  In ancient times, a king often had a member of his ruling cabinet, an individual called “the king’s friend.” This “king’s friend” had no particular duty but to simply fellowship with the king.  Abraham is known in the Bible as “the friend of God.”

177. The following excerpts are from the book, Where God Came Down, by Joel Kramer:

Not long after he consolidated power, Constantine’s mother-in-law, Eutropia, visited Mamre on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.  She wrote to her son-in-law about the pagan worship practices she observed there. 

In response, Constantine wrote a letter to the regional leaders which was preserved through the writings of church historian Eusebius.  In his letter, Constantine wrote:

She [Eutropia] assures me, then, that the place which gains its name from the oak of Mambre [Mamre], where we find that Abraham dwelt is defiled by certain of the slaves of superstition in every possible way.  She declares that idols which should be utterly destroyed have been erected on the site of that tree; that an altar is near the spot; and that impure sacrifices are continually performed.

Constantine issued orders to put an end to the pagan worship by burning the idols and to cleanse the site by building a church.

178. One last quote from the book, Where God Came Down:

Fortunately, Mader did have an ancient text to aid his understanding and interpretation—the Bible.  As we will see in the following section, using the Bible, and particularly the book of Genesis, Mader was able to clearly identify the site he was excavating as Mamre, the ancient campsite of Abraham.  [End of quote]

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179. To those who point out that male circumcision has been fulfilled in Christ, and is not required for New Testament salvation, we respond that that observation is absolutely true.  However, keep in mind that the vast majority of the citizens of this world (as in the 90%-plus range) do not possess Christian credentials.  Also note that all of God’s commandments have a spiritual and physical component.  The physical benefits of male circumcision are as real today as they were when Abraham received the commandment.  The basic biology of man has not changed from the Old Testament to the New, nor has it changed through today.

180. In 1971, the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics said, “Circumcision may have some religious reason, but it delivers no medical benefit whatsoever.”  Up until that time, male circumcision was routine in America.  [Keep in mind what you just read the next time you hear “follow the science.”]

181. The token of God’s covenant with Abraham is male circumcision, which is performed on the newborn baby boy on the 8th day.  Not the first, third, or fifth day; the Bible is very clear that circumcision is to take place on the 8th day of a baby boy’s life.  Keep that in mind as we continue.

182. Researchers led by Xavier Castellsague, MD, of the Lobregat Hospital in Barcelona, report regarding circumcision:

The first discovery was that men who weren''t circumcised were more than twice as likely to be infected with HPV. In both groups, the chance of HPV infection increased with high-risk sexual activity such as unprotected sex, early age of first sexual activity, and number of partners.

But even more striking was the effect on their partners. Women whose male partners were uncircumcised and had high-risk sexual behavior were two to five times more likely to develop cervical cancer.

183. The following information is from Dr. Grant Jeffrey’s book, The Signature of God:

Modern medical science has discovered that the blood-clotting chemical prothrombin peaks to its highest level when a newborn reaches the eighth day after birth. On this day as well, the liver is developing vitamin K, which assists in blood clotting.  These two clotting agents, vitamin K and prothrombin, rise to the highest level (110% of normal) on the eighth day following birth.  Without vitamin K and prothrombin, blood will not clot properly, and the possibility of severe bleeding as well as infection would make circumcision dangerous in a primitive medical situation. [End of quote]

God said to circumcise the male child over 40 centuries before medical science had the foggiest idea of the benefits. He commanded it to be performed on the eighth day.

184. One such resource is the results of a meta-study compiled by the NLM (National Library of Medicine) concerning male circumcision.  The following information is from the May 30, 2022 compilation under the title, “Evidence-Based Circumcision Policy for Australia:”

Early MC provides immediate and lifetime benefits, including protection against: urinary tract infections, phimosis, inflammatory skin conditions, inferior penile hygiene, candidiasis, various STIs [sexually transmitted infections], and penile and prostate cancer.  In female partners, MC [male circumcision] reduces risk of STIs and cervical cancer. A risk-benefit analysis found benefits exceeded procedural risks, which are predominantly minor, by approximately 200 to 1.  It was estimated that more than 1 in 2 uncircumcised males will experience an adverse foreskin-related medical condition over their lifetime.  An increase in early MC in Australia to mid-1950s prevalence of 85% from the current level of 18.75% would avoid 77,000 cases of infections and other adverse medical conditions over the lifetime for each annual birth cohort.

185. Male circumcision, another God-inspired truth from Genesis.

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186. God’s Word says YES. History says YES.  Archaeology and geology say YES.  Sodom and Gomorrah, along with their companion cities, were destroyed by fire and brimstone out of heaven (just like the Bible says), and their histories are hooked at the hip with one of the wonders of the world, a body of water called the Dead Sea.

187. Highly acclaimed chronologist and historian Bishop Ussher states in his book The Annals of the World, which was written in the 1600s, that the destruction took place in the spring of 1897 BC, or 2107 AM.  AM is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase “anne mundi,” which translates to “years since the world began.” This event took place about 3,900 years ago.

188. In 1848, the United States commissioned an expedition to research the mysteries of the Dead Sea. It was led by geologist W.F. Lynch. The following excerpt is from The Bible As History:

Huge deposits of coagulated salt made the beach and the rockface above it sparkle in the sun like diamonds. The air was filled with sharp acrid odours, a mixture of petroleum and sulphur. Oily patches of asphalt—the Bible calls it "slime" (Genesis 14:10)—float on the waves.

The water of the Dead Sea contains approximately 30% of solid ingredients, most sodium chloride, i.e. cooking salt. The normal ocean has only 3.3 to 4% salt. [End of quote]

189. Bishop Ussher writes in The Annals of the World concerning Sodom and Gomorrah:

The valley of Siddim, where these five cities stood in former times, was full of brimstone and salt pits. This has since grown into a vast lake which, because of the brimstone still floating in it, is called Laces Asphaltitis or Lake of Brimstone and because of the salt, Mare Salsum or the Salt Sea.  [End of quote]

190. The following paragraphs are from www.ArkDiscovery.com under the heading, "Sodom and Gomorrah, the Cities of the Plain, Ash and Brimstone Remain:"

The five cities of the plain have been located and the evidence is staggering. For the first time in modern history we have found round balls of brimstone, or nearly pure sulfur, embedded in an ashen area near the Dead Sea,...

These sulfur balls are mostly golf ball sized, and some have burn marks all around them! Webster’s Dictionary says that "brimstone" equals sulfur. Accordingly, we have found the absolute proof that we have finally located Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain!

191. In one last statement, G. A. Smith writes, "Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous for vice and godlessness. Sexual acts alluded to in connection with the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah are the basis for the contemporary term ‘sodomy.’”

192. The discoveries made by archaeologist Steven Collins warranted front-page representation on the March/April 2013 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review and inside, a ten-plus page feature. Collins presents his case for Tall el-Hammam as the actual city of Sodom.  Excerpts from his feature follow:

Across Tall el-Hammam, archaeologists found widespread evidence of an intense, fiery conflagration that left the Middle Bronze Age city in charred ruins.  Well below the later Iron Age levels of this evacuation trench are the scorched walls and floors of a Middle Bronze Age structure that was buried beneath nearly 3 feet of dark grey ash. 

Numerous pottery fragments of this matrix lie across the site and have outside surfaces melted into glass, with some bubbled up like “frothy” magma, indicating they were burned in a flash heat event far exceeding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

193. The following paragraphs are from the December 22, 2018 and January 5, 2019 issue of Science News. The headline reads, “Meteor May Have Wiped Out Ancient Dead Sea Sites.” 

A super-heated blast from the skies obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea about 3,700 years ago, preliminary findings suggest.

Excavations at five sites in Jordan indicate that all were occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden collapse toward the end of the Bronze Age.  Up to about 65,000 people lived in the area when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said. 

The clearest evidence of destruction caused by a meteor explosion comes from the city of Tall el-Hammam.  Mud-brick walls of nearly all structures suddenly disappeared about 3,700 years ago, leaving only stone foundations. 

What’s more, the outer layers of many pottery pieces from the time show signs of having melted into glass.

Archaeologists date this event to approximately 3,700 years ago.  Biblical dating puts the events of Sodom and Gomorrah at just over 3,900 years ago.

194. The lack of schooling among the world’s highly acclaimed academics is breathtaking.  The schooling I’m referring to, of course, is Sunday Schooling.  They are treading on the charred remains of cities of the plain where God rained down His terrible judgment, and they have no idea where they are.  They just can’t connect the dots.  Does reprobate come to mind?

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195. Note, many in these particular groups we will discuss have turned to Christ, and many more will as the day approaches.  They, as all of God’s redeemed, are exempted from the curse of the fallen and not subject to God’s negative judgments.  Be of good cheer.

196. Ecclesiastes 4:12: …and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.  There are three very specific groups of Biblically disenfranchised who have one thing in common that draws them together under one single banner—the banner under which they will lead the charge at the battle of Armageddon where the world as we know it dies. The three cords in this story will be three men, Canaan, Ishmael, and Esau, whom each have a serious axe to grind with the children of Israel.

197. Genesis 9:24-25: And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 

Canaan, the first cord, is the father of the Canaanites who once possessed Canaan land.  They were disposed by the Hebrew people and this land became Israel.  The children of Canaan served false gods and walked in lewd wickedness before God, who evicted them from His land.  The Canaanites lost fields, houses, cities, flocks, herds, and infrastructure, and many lost their lives.  This was the judgment of God.  Because of the deeds of his father Ham, Canaan and his offspring suffered the curse. The Canaanite has an axe to grind.

198. Ishmael is the second cord. Abraham’s (Abram) wife Sarah (Sarai) could not conceive, so she gave her Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, to Abraham that she might have children of Hagar.  This situation began to sour from the start.  Genesis 16:4:

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

The conflict had begun.  The son born of Hagar was named Ishmael, and the following prophecy was spoken of him in Genesis 16:12:

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

199. According to Bishop Ussher, the disenfranchisement of Ishmael takes place when he is in his 18^th year.  In his book The Annals of the World, published in 1658 AD, Ussher reports on this event:

After Isaac was weaned, Abraham made a great feast, Sarah saw Ishmael, the son of Hagar the Egyptian, jesting with her son or rather mocking (as that word is translated later in Genesis) or even persecuting (as the apostle expounds it).  Ishmael, who was the older, claimed the right of inheritance to his father’s estate.  Sarah asked Abraham to cast out Ishmael, for the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac.  Though he took this very grievously at first, yet he did it, for God had said to him, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.  Hence, we observe that Isaac is called his only begotten son.  [End of quote]

Ishmaelites (Muslims) have an axe to grind.

200. Esau is the third cord.Isaac and Rebekah had two sons, Esau and Jacob, who were fraternal (non-identical) twins.  Esau was the first of the twins to be born, and therefore had the birthright of the firstborn, which he sold for a bowl of beans (Genesis 25:29-34). Hebrews 12:16:

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

201. Esau has a big axe to grind with the children of Israel.  The rift does not improve when Esau marries two Canaanite (Hittite) women before going on to marry Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael.  A very large percentage of the descendants of Canaan, Ishmael, and Esau—the epitome of the threefold cord—identify themselves as Muslims.  Muslims know themselves as Ishmaelites, and they will lead the charge to Armageddon. 

202. Abraham was preparing to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah when God stepped in and stopped him.  God supplied a ram that was caught in the thicket for the sacrifice.  Mount Moriah is where the Jewish Temple Mount sits in Jerusalem.  Imagine this: It is also where the Muslims erected the Dome of the Rock over what is believed to be the very rock upon which Abraham placed his only begotten son, Isaac.  However, Muslims claim that it was not Isaac to be sacrificed, but rather his half-brother Ishmael whom Abraham took to Mount Moriah.  The Old and New Testaments are very clear that Abraham took Isaac to Mount Moriah.  The Old Testament account by Moses predates Mohammad and the Muslim faith by approximately 2,100 years, and the New Testament by 600 years. 

This rock is a rock of offense, a rock of contention, even at this very moment. A threefold cord is not easily broken.

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203. Was there a Jacob, the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, as the Bible repeatedly asserts?  After all, Jacob is mentioned 371 times in the Scriptures, and his namesake Israel is found 2,415 times.  Genesis speaks of Jacob wrestling with the angel of God, recording this exchange where the angel speaks in Genesis 32:28: And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

His name is in the news daily, and has, since May 14, 1948, once again been emblazoned upon the world’s globe, yet critics will still challenge. 

204. Genesis 30:30, 37-39: So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

Franz Delitzsch, who wrote the two-volume New Commentary of Genesis in the late 1800s, stated that it is an established fact that white lambs can be guaranteed by placing a multitude of white objects about the drinking troughs. Jacob, being instructed by God, did the exact opposite. The prenatal influence of Jacob''s green poplar and of hazel and chestnut trees all of which he had peeled (pilled) to reveal white streaks (strakes) set in the gutters of the watering troughs, caused the sheeps'' offspring to be ringstraked, speckled and spotted.

The above Biblical episode has given us the concept of "the Jacob Sheep," as well as a charity in England known as The Jacob Sheep Society Limited.

205. A pair of Jacob''s Sheep are now residents of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.  According to the Autumn 1984 issue of Vogue Patterns, there is a fabric called "Jacob Wool." Jacob Wool and cloths are separate from other wools not just because of their rarity but also as a result of their unusual quality. England is the home of the majority of the world''s Jacob Sheep, mostly as the fruit of Lady Aldington''s society.

206. From Jacob’s original 70 total Hebrew people in Egypt, they had grown to several million strong.  Biblical critics have long challenged their existence in Egypt at all.  The following report is found in The International Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2003, p. 31:

The recent publicity garnered by the Egyptian professor who intends to file a lawsuit against the Jewish people and the State of Israel for the return of the gold, silver, and clothing taken by the Israelites when they left Egyptian bondage over three millennia ago. The academic who claims to be filing this class-action suit is perhaps unaware that this tactic was attempted before—in fact, it was employed over 23 centuries ago, when Alexander the Great ruled both Egypt and the Land of Israel.

The Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin relates that Egyptian representatives appeared before Alexander and asked that he demand from the Jews the return of all of the wealth taken by them when they left Egyptian slavery a millennium earlier. The rabbis sent a man by the name of Gavha, who was small in stature but very clever.  His defense was that if one were to start down the slippery road of adjudicating ancient claims, then the Egyptians still owed the Jews for centuries of slave labor.  Alexander, no fool himself, realized the morass that he had placed himself in by agreeing to judge the case, and decided to dismiss the matter altogether.  

207. There in fact is a well that is commonly known by Samaritans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike as "Jacob’s Well," the very one which Jacob dug and also the one where Jesus conversed with the Samaritan woman. Jacob’s well is located 1/2 mile south of Sychar on the high road from Jerusalem. This one very authentic site is found near Joseph’s tomb on land which his father Jacob had purchased.

Today, a Greek Christian church that had purchased the site built their church right over the well. Water from Jacob’s Well is sold in small collectors’ bottles and carried all over the world.

208. Was there a Jacob as Genesis describes? Jacob is still with us today.  He is buried in the cave of Machpelah, which is found in the present-day Israeli city of Hebron.  Jacob gave Joseph very specific instructions for handling his death and body in Genesis 49:29-33.  

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209. In the Book of Genesis, the first Book of the Bible, thirteen entire chapters tell the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob and Rachel.  And it is such a marvelous story, demonstrating the intricate, secret ordering of events by He who knows the end from the beginning.  Did God get it wrong?  Are the world’s academics correct?  Is 26% of the Book of Genesis—which declares the story of Joseph—simply an old fairytale?

This was the Joseph who was given the coat of many colors, and was sold into slavery by his jealous half-brothers (excluding Benjamin) who would later become the heads of the tribes of Israel.  Joseph was sold to an Ishmaelite caravan of merchants before ending up in an Egyptian prison.

210. During his confinement in prison,  Joseph (now about 28 years old) interpreted the dreams of two of Pharaoh’s former officers, whom Pharaoh also had imprisoned.  Both interpretations came true.             A short period of time passed and the Pharaoh of Egypt also had two troubling dreams.  No one in his kingdom could interpret their meaning.  But Pharaoh’s butler remembered a young man named Joseph who had the supernatural ability to interpret the deep secrets of dreams.

Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s two dreams: Joseph said that Pharaoh''s dreams meant that Egypt would have seven years of great abundance, followed by seven years of great famine—a famine so great that the seven years of abundance would be consumed by its dearth and fully forgotten.  Because of Pharaoh’s dreams and Joseph’s interpretations of them, Joseph counseled Pharaoh to build grain centers in Egypt and store one-fifth of all crops during the years of plenty to preserve life during the great famine.  

211. According to author David Rohl, who wrote the research book Pharaohs and Kings, during the time of Joseph:

Three regional departments were set up to oversee the agricultural labor, conscript labor and storage of grain supplies for redistribution to the Egyptian population during periods of famine.  Avaris [in Goshen] is the site of one of the three regional departments. 

Now, Goshen was where the children of Israel resided.  There is also archaeological evidence that a famine was preceded by a bumper harvest during the time of Joseph.

212. According to the great Jewish historian Josephus in his account of The Antiquities of the Jews, Joseph was honored by Pharaoh with the title “’Psothom Phanech’ out of regard for his prodigious degree of wisdom, for that name denotes the revealer of secrets.”

213. The next excerpt is taken from Werner Keller’s widely-read and recognized book, The Bible as History:

The town of Medinet-el-Faiyum, lying 80 miles south of Cairo in the middle of the fertile Faiyum, is extolled as the “Venice of Egypt.”  In the lush gardens of this huge flourishing oasis grow oranges, mandarins, peaches, olives, pomegranates, and grapes.  Faiyum owes these delicious fruits to the artificial canal, over 200 miles long, which conveys the water of the Nile and turns this district, which would otherwise be desert, into a paradise.  The ancient waterway is not only to this day called “Bahr Yusuf”—“Joseph’s Canal”—by the local people, but is known by this name throughout Egypt.  People say that it was the Joseph of the Bible, Pharaoh’s “Grand Vizier,” as Arab legends would describe him, who planned it.  [End of quotes]

214. In his book, The Signature of God, Grant Jeffrey reports on the 7 years of plenty and the 7 years of famine:

However, the greatest treasure of all was an engraved stone tablet bearing the woman’s final inscription. The Yemenite inscription reads as follows:

In thy name O God, the God of Hamyar, I Tajah, the daughter of Dzu Shefar, sent my steward to Joseph,

And he delaying to return to me, I sent my hand maid

With a measure of silver, to bring me back a measure of flour:

And not being able to procure it, I sent her with a measure of gold:

And not being able to procure it, I sent her with a measure of pearls:

And not being able to procure it, I commanded them to be ground:

And finding no profit in them, I am shut up here.

Whosoever may hear of it, let him commiserate me;

And should any woman adorn herself with an ornament

From my ornaments, may she die with no other than my death.

215. The headline of ScienceNews.org on November 19, 2016 reads, “Oldest Alphabet Identified as Hebrew.”  A few paragraphs follow:

The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. 

Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization’s hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. 

Several Biblical figures turn up in the translated inscriptions, including Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his half-brothers and then became a powerful political figure in Egypt, Joseph’s wife Asenath and Joseph’s son Manasseh, a leading figure in a turquoise-mining business that involved yearly trips to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.  Moses, who led the Israelites out of Egypt, is also mentioned, Petrovich says. [End of quote]

216. The marvelous story of Joseph and Pharaoh, and Joseph’s transformation from prisoner to kingmaker in mere minutes, has been regarded as nonsense by the “wisest” amongst us, but wait! Was there such a time of famine that affected “all the face of the earth,” even as the Bible reports? The headline from a January 26, 2022 feature on Nature.com reads, “Did a Mega Drought Topple Empires 4,200 Years Ago?” An excerpt follows:

For Weiss, it was the start of a research endeavor spanning decades.  He has become convinced that the drought of 2200 BC was not confined to Mesopotamia, but rather that it had effects around the globe.

The Nature feature proposes a date of 3,900 to 4,200 years ago.  Bishop Ussher, a highly acclaimed ancient chronologist, published his book The Annals of The World in the 1600s, and dated the beginning of the famine recorded in Genesis to 3,730 years ago.

Where are all the God-inspired truths in Genesis?  In this summation of summations, GodSaidManSaid has listed 216 very powerful Genesis truths and there are surely hundreds more.  How did these marvels escape God’s critics?  When you start upside-down, you should not expect to end rightside-up.  God’s beautiful Book is true and righteous altogether. 

GOD SAID, Genesis 9:2:

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

GOD SAID, Genesis 11:1:

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

GOD SAID, Genesis 17:12:

And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

MAN SAID: If God authored the Bible, where are all the God-inspired truths in His first book, Genesis? There isn’t any!

 

Now you have THE RECORD.

 

References:

Authorized King James Version

Blumner, R., Free Inquiry

GodSaidManSaid, “Abraham: The Father of Faith (The Genesis Series, Part 39)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Armageddon: Noah, Abraham, and Isaac (The Genesis Series, Part 43)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Capital Offenses (The Genesis Series, Part 34)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Circumcision: Things I need to Know (The Genesis Series, Part 41)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Fear & Dread (The Genesis Series, Part 32)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Jacob: Sheep, Water, and Today’s News (The Genesis Series, Part 44)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Joseph -- What a Story! (The Genesis Series, Part 45)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Noah, Ham, Canaan, Armageddon…and Alcohol (The Genesis Series, Part 36)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Shem, Ham, and Japheth (The Genesis Series, Part 31)”

GodSaidManSaid, “The Rainbow (The Genesis Series, Part 35)”

GodSaidManSaid, “The Table of Nations’ Staggering Accuracy (The Genesis Series, Part 37)”

GodSaidManSaid, “There It Sits: Sodom & Gomorrah (The Genesis Series, Part 42)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Thy Brother’s Blood (The Genesis Series, Part 33)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Tower of Babel & One Common Language (The Genesis Series, Part 38)”

GodSaidManSaid, “Where God Came Down (The Genesis Series, Part 40)”

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