People mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments –

Adam is mentioned by name in: Deuteronomy, Job and I Chronicles in the Old Testament; Luke, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 1 Titus and Jude in the New Testament

Noah is mentioned by name in: I Chronicles, Isaiah and Ezekiel in the Old Testament; Hebrews, 1 Peter, 2 Peter in the New Testament

Abraham is mentioned by name in: 15 books of the Old Testament and 11 books of the New Testament

Jacob (Israel) is mentioned by name in: 20 books of the Old Testament (other than Genesis) and at least 17 books of the New Testament

Without Genesis there’s no explanation for the existence of Israel, the balance of the Old Testament, let alone the New Testament and why it was necessary for Jesus to come to earth, die and be resurrected.

Can't Have One Without The Other

The New Testament is more dependent on the Book of Genesis than even the Old Testament!

There are 165 passages in Genesis that are quoted or referred to in the New Testament. Many of these are alluded to more than once, so that there are at least 200 references to Genesis in the New Testament.

The first 11 chapters of Genesis

People – whether saved or unsaved – have the hardest time with the first eleven chapters of Genesis.

These eleven chapters had the greatest influence on the New Testament! Over 100 quotations or direct references to Genesis chapters 1 through 11 are in the New Testament.

When Jesus was here on the earth, bodily, there was no New Testament. The only Bible was the Old Testament.

Jesus Himself, on at least six different occasions, quoted or referred to something or someone in these chapters, including specific references to each of the first seven chapters.

The Historical Nature of Genesis

Webster’s defines the word “allegory” as 1: the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also: an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression 2: a symbolic representation.

Henry Morris, in his commentary on Genesis, states:

In the New Testament, all references to Genesis were made as absolutely HISTORICAL, TRUE and AUTHORITIVE. You can’t reject the historical nature of Genesis without undermining the entire Bible!

• If the first Adam was just an allegorical figure, then so is the second Adam (Jesus Christ)
• If man didn’t fall into sin from a created state of innocence, then there’s no need for a Savior
• If everything can be explained by natural processes of evolution, then there is no reason to look forward to a future supernatural consummation of all things
• Jesus Christ Himself would either be deceived or a deceiver, becoming a false witness, concerning His own omniscience and omnipotence, which becomes blasphemy
• If Genesis is not true, faith in the gospel of Christ for our eternal salvation is an empty mockery

But Thank God that Genesis was written as an historical, divinely inspired account of the origin of all things. You can’t possibly hope to get a true and full understanding of anything, without acceptance of the origins of everything, as recorded in Genesis.

Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

God created the earth and Light on the First Day, but He didn’t create the sun, moon, planets and stars until the Fourth Day! What this shows is that the light that evolutionists perceive as traveling for millions or billions of years – was actually put in place several days before there was anything there to send that light!

This follows along with the thought that everything was created with apparent age - even the planets,stars and galaxies!

The earth didn’t have any form to it, nor was there anything in it. “Without form” indicates that it was a mass of whatever God had just created. To give you an mental picture of it, just think about a big glob of gelatin suspended or floating in space. “Void” means empty, nothing in it.