What Did Jesus and The New Testament Authors Say About The Accuracy of Genesis

• Matthew 19:3-8
• 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
• 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
• 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
• 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
• 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
• 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

• Luke 17:26-30
• 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe (Noah), so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
• 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
• 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
• 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
• 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

• Acts 7:1-15

• 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
• 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
• 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
• 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
• 7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
• 7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
• 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
• 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
• 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
• 7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
• 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
• 7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
• 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
• 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

• Romans 4:3, 9-21;
• 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
• 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
• 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
• 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
• 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
• 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
• 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
• 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
• 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
• 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
• 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
• 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

• Romans 5:14 - Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
• 1 Corinthians 15:22 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
• Galatians 3:6 - Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
• 1 Timothy 2:13, 14
• 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
• 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
• Hebrews 11:3-22
• 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
• 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
• 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
• 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
• 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
• 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

• 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
• 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
• 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
• 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
• 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
• 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
• 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
• 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
• 1 Peter 3:20 - Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

* What Did Jesus and The New Testament Authors Say About The Accuracy of Genesis?