Book Of Genesis Quotes:

Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine-it destroys the foundation of the gospel.

- Ken Ham

topic: Christian, Book, Fall, Allegory, Genesis

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Book, Quantum, Theory, Book Of Genesis

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

- Henry F. Schaefer, III

topic: Book, Atheism, Firsts, Genesis, Book Of Genesis

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.64, Loyola Press

topic: Book, Mean, Saint, Protector, Saint Francis

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.202, Vintage

topic: Book, School, Sunday, Book Of Genesis, Threatened

It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.

- W. S. Merwin

source: "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

topic: Running, Attitude, Book, Hunter Gatherers, Book Of Genesis

The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is, "Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." We've been trying to do that for a long time, and now the Earth is fighting back. I'm not sure that we're going to survive as a species.

- John Shelby Spong

source: Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

topic: Book, Fighting, Garden, Fighting Back, Book Of Genesis

What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.

- Charles Hampden-Turner

source: Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

topic: Communication, Book, What If, Anthropologists, Book Of Genesis

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end.] Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.

- Hannes Alfven

source: "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

topic: Religious, Book, Buddhism, Genesis, Book Of Genesis

When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

- Charlie Campbell

topic: Bible, Jesus, Book, Book Of Genesis

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

- Robert Breault

topic: Book, Artist, Ideas, Book Of Genesis

The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.

- Philip Pullman

topic: Clever, Book, Perfect, Clever Person, Book Of Genesis

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

- Ken Ham

topic: Book, Reading, School, Book Of Genesis

The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in the phrase ‘God created Man in his own image’. This ‘divine image’, the characteristics of which we must study in detail, can be found on all levels, and is the hallmark of a cosmos.

- Rodney Collin

topic: Book, Men, Design, Book Of Genesis, Tokens

The Book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis' General Audience, w2.vatican.va. May 1, 2013.

topic: Book, Mean, Caring, Entrusting, Book Of Genesis

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Book, Dark, Science, Genesis, Dark Ages

We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.'  We know from the first letter of John that 'God is Love.'  Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love.  This isn't hard to see.  Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.

- Jason Evert

topic: Book, Men, Design, Genesis, Book Of Genesis

If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.

- Wallace Pratt

topic: Book, Simple, Ideas, Genesis, Geologist

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

- Noah

topic: Book, Biblical, Stories, Book Of Genesis

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

- Chinua Achebe

source: Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.98, Heinemann

topic: Believe, Book, People, Book Of Genesis

It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is tied in with the rest of the historical narrative in the book of Genesis, so also this account of the fall of man, which follows the history of man's creation, is presented by the author as straightforward, narrative history

- Wayne Grudem

source: Wayne A. Grudem (2012). “Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short”, p.9, Zondervan

topic: Book, Fall, Men, Adam And Eve, Fall Of Man

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Spring, Book, April, Genesis, Book Of Genesis

When we talk about the environment, about creation, my thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, which states that God placed man and woman on earth to cultivate and care for it. And the question comes to my mind: What does cultivating and caring for the earth mean? Are we truly cultivating and caring for creation? Or are we exploiting and neglecting it?

- Pope Francis

source: "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

topic: Book, Mean, Caring, Book Of Genesis

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

- Rick Wakeman

topic: Book, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Genesis, Book Of Genesis