Defending Genesis Quiz

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Quiz for Creation Apologetics course by Mr. Chris Ashcraft

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1. According to Gallup Polls approximately how many people in the United States believe in God? *

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a. Less than 50%

b. Less than 100 million

c. 200 million

d. More than 90%

2. According to a poll of 1000 twenty year olds who have left the Church, what part of the Bible made most question its reliability? *

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a. The miracles of Jesus’

b. The creation account

c. The young Biblical age of the Earth

d. Too many rules

3. The dates of Biblical events are calculated from what information? *

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a. Radiometric dating

b. Synchronizing ancient Egyptian and Biblical dates

c. The ages given in the genealogical records of patriarchs in the Bible

d. Carbon-14 dating

4. Genesis is most important for the New Testament Christian because… *

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a. We can use the dates it contains to calculate the true age of the Earth

b. It is our only source of knowledge about important historical events in the ancient world

c. It is foundational to the doctrines of the fall of mankind, death, and the gospel message of redemption through the sacrificial blood of Christ.

d. It contains important prophecies regarding the coming Messiah

5. Some Christian teach that Adam was not a real man. Why? *

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a. Luke does not include Adam in his genealogical record from Jesus to creation.

b. The location of the Garden of Eden has never been located where the Tigris and Euphrates intersect.

c. The existence of Adam is inconsistent with scientific teachings on human evolution.

d. Earth – Sun/Stars – Sea/Flying Creatures – Plants – Land Animals

6. Using dates given in the Bible, what is the possible age of the Earth (in 2021)?

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a. 6025

b. 12,025

c. 600,025

d. We cannot know since 2 Peter 3:8 says ”With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day”

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7. What is the correct sequence of creation events in Genesis 1 *

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a. Space – Sun/Stars – Earth – Sea/Flying Creatures – Plants – Land Animals

b. Sun/Stars – Earth – Sea/Flying Creatures – Plants – Land Animals

c. Earth – Atmosphere – Plants – Sun/Stars – Sea/Flying Creatures – Land Animals

d. Earth – Sun/Stars – Sea/Flying Creatures – Plants – Land Animals

8. The period of time described by the Hebrew word for day (Yom) is best interpreted … *

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a. Using the exegetical analysis of the word Yom elsewhere in scripture.

b. Through the overwhelming scientific evidence for an old Earth age.

c. As an ordinary day because the author of Genesis defines Yom using the phrase “evening and morning”.

d. When scripture is enlightened by current scientific knowledge (Eisegesis).

e. Both a and c

f. Both b and d

9. A huge problem with the Day Age theory is? *

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a. The Sun and stars were not created until Day 4 – after plants.

b. The abundance of deposits supporting the Biblical flood.

c. The word day is never used to describe a broad period of time.

d. It argues that the day on Earth has “aged” or become longer through time, which is not supported astronomically.

10. What is the Gap theory? *

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a. Arthur Gap proposed that God created the first living cell on Earth knowing that biological evolution would eventually give rise to humans.

b. It attempts to reconcile the Bible with scientific old Earth theories by arguing that there is a huge gap (billions of years) between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.

c. Also called “God of the Gaps” – it asserts that “miracles” (like creation) are invoked by people whenever there is a gap of knowledge.

d. An old Earth creationist view, which holds that gaps exists in the genealogical record of the Bible.

11. Old Earth creationist views include which of the following. *

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a. Day-age / Progressive creationism

b. Gap theory

c. Theistic evolution

d. Framework hypothesis

e. All of the above

12. ALL theistic evolutionists (old Earth creationists) believe the following? *

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a. The flood was either a local event or a non-event

b. Adam was created from an ape-like hominid

c. Each day of the creation in Genesis 1 was a broad span of time

d. God created the laws of physics and let natural processes do the rest.

13. Reasons to accept the Biblical flood as a global scale event include all the following except? *

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a. The Bible says all the high mountains were covered.

b. Flood deposits blanket the entire globe.

c. God promised to never again destroy the Earth by flood with the sign of the rainbow. Thus it was not a localized flood like those common to the history of the Earth.

d. The exegetical interpretation of the Hebrew word for the flood (mabbul) is not used to describe local flood events like the Jordan in flood stage.

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