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I. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT GENEALOGIES:
A. Def.: “Genealogy” is the study of beginnings (of people/family).
– Genesis, “In the beginning…” – Genesis + logy = Genealogy– Genealogists recorded genealogies
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I. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT GENEALOGIES:
B. Purpose:
1. Genealogies served as the chronological basis for histories. • Take “Who” and add “What.”
• E.g., Ge. 10
2. Genealogies serve to confirm God’s word, Ge. 12:3 Lk. 3:34
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I. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT GENEALOGIES:
Many cultures kept genealogies:
• Acusilaus of Argos (500 B.C.)• Hecataeus (550 B.C.), Genealogiai
Many cultures used genealogies to trace their lineage back to a god: Hecataeus
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II. INDIRECT TESTIMONY FROM ANCIENT SECULAR GENEALOGIES:
About ancient science About long life-spans before the flood
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A. Ancient science:
• “Hecataeus traced his family tree and connected himself with a god in the sixteenth generation; but the priests countered by constructing a family tree by their method of reckoning, because they would not take it from him that a man had been born from a god.”
• “In eleven-thousand three hundred and forty years, said the priests, there had never been a god in man-shape.” (Herodotus, 2, 142-3)
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A. Ancient science:
• This event affects us.
– Modern critics reject the supernatural.
– They charge that the ancients were ignorant, naïve, and without scientific method.
– Therefore, we (AD 2006) should not believe that the miracles of the Bible actually happened.
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A. Ancient science:
• This event affects us.
– Modern critics reject the supernatural.
– They charge that the ancients were ignorant, naïve, and without scientific method.
– Therefore, we (AD 2006) should not believe that miracles, as recorded in the Bible, actually happened.
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A. Ancient science:
• Modern Skeptics Are Wrong!
1. The ancient world was full of skeptics:
– The E. Priests, Hecataeus, Herodotus
– Gideon, Jdg. 6:12-17, 36-40
– “Doubting” Thomas (Jn. 20:24-28)
– The Athenians, Ac. 17:31, 32
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A. Ancient science:
• Modern Skeptics Are Wrong! (cont.)
2. The method used to disprove Hecataeus:
345 statues Critically observed, rationalized, and
recorded history Compared and contrasted
If the Bible can stand in that audience, it can stand in any!
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B. Long life spans before the flood:
• From the list of Sumerian Kings:
– Pre-flood, 8 kings, “30,150 years” each
– After the flood:• “1200 years”• 5 – 50 years
– Ge. 5-10!
The Sumerian list contains erroneous numbers but is based in fact.
Indirect testimony to the flood.
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III. CONSIDERING ALLEGED GENEALOGICAL DISCREPANCIES:
• Some attack the NT by claiming its genealogies lie; e.g., was Joseph’s father Jacob or Eli?
• No 1st. cent. Jew (or Gentile) rejected the Biblical genealogies. Mt. 21:15-16:
Their dispute was that only God could receive such praise. “Hosanna,” Ps. 28:1, 9 (Jer. 31:7)
Their dispute wasn’t:
– Calling Jesus, “Son of David” (Mt. 1:20)
– Jesus’ lineage, v. 9.
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
A. Objective science is a friend to the Gospel!
– Many people today want to pit science against the Bible.
Myths fell. The Bible stands. Why?
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” (Charles Darwin, 1859)
DNA
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
B. The power of the Gospel:
– The first to assert “Contradiction!” was Emperor Julian (A.D. 363).
– "One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth…"
(Voltaire, d. 1778).
– 1 Pe. 1:23-25
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
C. The purity of the Christian:
• Ezra 2:59-62
• Rv. 20:12-15; Phil. 4:8-9
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
D. The compliance of the Christian:
– Genealogies influenced many aspects of an Israelite’s life, see Numbers:
• 1, leadership• 2, military duty• 3, priesthood and priestly duties• 26:53, addresses
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
D. The compliance of the Christian: (cont.)
– If you’re a part of God’s family, He affects everything in your life!
– Must we look for authority for everything we do?
• Col. 3:17
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IV. GENEALOGIES EMPHASIZE:
E. The comfort of the Christian:
– Mi. 5:…5, a Savior would come and bring peace. (Ge. 12; 49; 2 Sm. 7; etc.)
– Genealogies are important to God because by them He proves His faithfulness.
– A.D. 2006?!?
– Php. 4:7!
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