BOOK OVERVIEW: 
Authenticity of the Book of Genesis 
by Bill Cooper 
2020 Bilingual English/Chinese (simplified) Edition, publication by LATM.

   Destroying the Genesis foundation of the Bible has long been forefront in the battle against the Word of God and against the God of the Word. In an extensively researched work to refute "modernists", in 2011 Bill Cooper published Authenticity of the Book of Genesis in one volume, 3 parts: (1) "The Antiquity of Genesis", (2) "Flood Traditions from around the World", and (3) "The Genesis Flood Tablet".  Now those 3 come available at the end of 2020 by Literature and Teaching Ministries (LATM) as a bilingual English-Chinese (simplified) 3-volume set.  While much defense of Genesis focuses on scientific aspects of Creation, Dr. Cooper brings the much needed "other side" - dirt-digging hard work history. With that comes great comfort to people of Biblical faith who bear frequent assaults against the world's "Queen of Histories", the Genesis record. 
     The Authenticity of the Book of Genesis actually presents two important histories. FIRST is the written record of Genesis and its multitude of evidences. The SECOND is a revealing history of modernists and haters of God's Word who seem to arise generation after generation in their hopeless attempts to bring Genesis to the ground - and the Bible with it. The net result, in the common theme of broken hammer and anvil, is kindly provided by Steve Buckelew Graphics.
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      Part One (384 pp.): You can not say that any chapter of this book is unimportant, but of special interest in Part One is the chapter on the kings of Genesis 14, affirmed in Abraham's time (around 2,000 BC). Contemporary cuneiform inscriptions bear names of all four of the Mesopotamian kings who came to punish the rebelling "kings of the plain." The frontispiece in the 2020 bilingual edition Part One volume features those very inscriptions lest they be overlooked. 
     Part Two (324 pp.): Dr. Cooper brings us oral traditions of the flood from around the earth. As expected, there are many varying time-dimmed details, but the main point is NEVER missed - there most certainly was a big flood event in which all persons on earth died except a few preserved in safety in a big vessel of some kind. One unforgettable example comes from the Mandan native peoples of North Dakota, USA.  Their annual custom was the "Buffalo Dance" around a bound pillar of wood pieces (the "Big Canoe", representing the ark ?). The ceremony was  performed so God would not bring another great Flood. American artist George Catlin painted the ceremony in North Dakota in 1832. The image, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison) is shown in the figure below. From 1932, one hundred years later, a photograph shows the remnant "Big Canoe" in a lonely field. You can see it on the cover of Part Two (image below, credit State Historical Society of North Dakota).

And every parent or teacher telling children the story of the great Flood of Noah should learn from Part Two that one aboriginal people of Australia remembers that Noah fell in the water as he was getting out of ark , then Mrs. Noah cooked a kangaroo. This story should be told in every class where the Bible is opened and revered. 

 Part Three (140 pp.): A cuneiform tablet fragment was recovered around 1890 from the deepest layer of ruins of the Temple of Nippur in Mesopotamia, well-dated to the time of Abraham around 2100 BC. Text remaining on the tablet is an amazing affirmation of the Genesis account of the flood, giving details of the preparation of the ark ("margurgurrum", a vessel for carrying and protection, not for navigation) in a form of early Hebrew. Because the fragment seemed to give strong support for the Bible record, its translation also has received shouting condemnation that continues even today. Because the 2011 original edition only gives one translation from 1910, the 2020 bilingual edition adds two more parallel translations by independent scholars in 1922 and 1946. All three translations are identical in significant details and  absolutely conform to the Bible record. Painting of the Nippur ruins excavation appears on the cover of Part 3, below.  Image of the fragment CBM-13532 is also below.
Finally, the 2020 bilingual edition adds three sections:
(1) An appendix in Part One presents the 1986 discovery in Sanxingdui, China, of a 3.97 meter high bronze "sacred tree" that portrays the temptation of Eve as perhaps no other known art has done. (2) A second added appendix in Part One explains importance of the 2016 publication of Douglas Petrovich's book, The World's Oldest Alphabet.  He convincingly identifies numerous stone and pottery inscriptions in Egypt as instances of the first alphabet development - BY HEBREWS, IN EGYPT, FOR THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. This is profound, affirming reliable divinely guided written propagation of the Bible's Genesis record.  Finally, (3) A question-based tutorial at the end of Part Three provides both motivation and metric for learning Genesis apologetics.
​     An embedded video about the first alphabet is found in an article further down this column, this web page.
   
     Availability of the Bill Cooper book bilingual edition will normally be found at the web site of Asia Christian Services, https://www.asiachristianservices.com/

TSFT16.  Honest Science and Origins Education

TRUE SCIENCE FOR THEOLOGIANS PRESENTATIONS.  MAY 7, 2016. Malibu.  
8:15 – 9:15 AM.  HONEST EDUCATION ABOUT SCIENCE AND GENESIS 1-11 IS CRITICAL FOR HONEST FAITH - Dr. Vern Bissell
9:45 – 11:00 AM.  FACTS AND FAITH: PREPARING KIDS FOR THE SCIENTISM ASSAULT IN EDUCATION.   Dr. Allen Jang
11:15 - 11:45 AM. CHINA GENESIS WITNESS: THE CREATION, FALL, AND FLOOD IN CHINESE WRITTEN LANGUAGE, HISTORY, GEOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY.  Dr. Vern Bissell

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 TSFT16. THEOLOGIAN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Trying to believe both theistic evolution (for sure) and Jesus (maybe)
 
Theistic evolution sadly and profoundly contravenes the words of Jesus (and Paul and others as well) which affirm the straightforward reading of the Genesis record of origins, the Fall, and the Flood. It is a classical case of THEOLOGIAN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE to affirm faith in Jesus' promise of eternal life while at the same time denying Jesus' affirmation of creation of mankind "at the Beginning". 
     From lecture entitled Honest Education about Science and Genesis 1-11 is Critical for Honest Faith. True Science for Theologians, May 7, 2016. Malibu conference TSFT16.  Dr. Vern Bissell.

TSFT16. CHINA GENESIS WITNESS:
BIBLE CREATION, FALL OF MAN, NOAH FLOOD

Independent sources show the Bible's Genesis record of Creation, the Fall of Man, and the great Flood are very real history.  China is rich in these witness resources of history, philology (language development), archaeology, geology, paleontology. Especially notable is the 4-meter-high bronze "Temptation Tree" of Sanxingdui, an ancient record of the temptation and Fall of man cast at the time of Moses (about 1500 B.C.) or prior, excavated at Sanxingdui, Sichuan Province, in 1986.  Also: China Border Sacrifice recitation, ancient Chinese writing on oracle bones and bronzeware, the great loess deposits "huangtu" of central China, great mountains of Sichuan flood cobble deposits at Dujiangyan and Qingcheng Shan, "living fossils" in Yunnan Luoping County, flood remnant mountains of Yunnan Stone Forest, Luoping County rapeseed bloom area, and Zhangjiajie Hunan Province. It is exciting that this is just beginning to scratch the surface.
Dr. Vern Bissell. True Science for Theologians, Malibu May 2016.

TSFT16. FACTS AND FAITH: PREPARING KIDS FOR THE SCIENTISM ASSAULT IN EDUCATION

    Dr. Allen Jang is a long-time public science educator, and here expresses concern about the honesty of public (and sometimes Christian) science education in USA. A big problem is the official policy of exclusion of evidence supporting the Bible history of Adam and Eve, the Fall of man, and the Global Flood. We need honest facts for honest faith.  By Dr. Allen Jang, May 7, 2016, Malibu, California. True Science for Theologians.

HEBREW WAS THE LANGUAGE OF THE FIRST ALPHABET - AND FOR GOOD REASON

The world's first alphabet was developed for the Hebrew language and taught by and to the Children of Israel in Egypt while Joseph was ruling as vizier. God surely directed this process to preserve the integrity of the ancient written records which were to become the Book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible and the Basis for all Christian faith. Video below includes some video clips from epigrapher Douglas Petrovich with Truthseekers commentary. Produced June 17, 2017.

YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW THAT THE "WALKING WHALES" TALE HAS BEEN FILLED WITH FRAUD.
   THE SAD THING IS CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS (AND SOME SCIENTISTS) HAVE BEEN UNCRITICALLY REPEATING THIS TALE, from Fuller Seminary Magazine to Pepperdine Bible Lectures to BioLogos top officials and far beyond.  Excellent documentation and Information on the image below and much more can be found in Werner, Carl, EVOLUTION: The Grand Experiment, 2014 (be sure to get the 2014 edition rather than the 2008 edition).

YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW THAT RESIDUAL RADIOCARBON (C-14) IN COAL AND DIAMONDS SHOWS THESE WERE BURIED LESS THAN 100,000 YEARS AGO

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   Neither secular nor theistic evolutionists want to talk about carbon-14 measurements in coal and diamonds. Precision measurements via accelerator mass spectrometry showed measurable C-14 in all diamond and coal samples measured in ICR's RATE project. It means the "deep time" (millions of years) story is a myth.
     Christian educators or missions directors should not allow any student to complete a course of study or depart on a mission without knowing well  this scientific fact.
Ancient genius  and the Bible: A letter to Jerusalem's Haaretz newspaper. Bible Joseph same as Egypt's Imhotep? Bible patriarch Abram  (later Abraham) appears also to be patriarch of computational astronomy (celestial mechanics, recorded in cuneiform) and perhaps law. Jacob of the Bible appears to be the first - and so far the ONLY - successful EPIGENETIC ENGINEER.  If "the apple does not fall far from the tree", we must consider it reasonable that Jacob's son Joseph (given a most effusive deathbed blessing by father Jacob)  is historical patriarch of scientific medical diagnosis/treatment and patriarch of cut-stone pyramid construction (Djoser's)? And just this week Nov-Dec 2016 add in Joseph's likely philological involvement in development of the WORLD'S FIRST ALPHABET -  Hebrew alephbet using hieroglyphics  - inscribed personally by Joseph's son Manasseh. Joseph=Imhotep?  Sure, why not?
MORE ON EPIGENETICS BELOW IN "Fisheries Phil" presentation on "Immanent Adaptation" as designed by the Creator to permit "microeveolution" for Bible "kinds" to adapt to various niches in "filling the earth."  But first watch the video clip immediately below in which U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson in 2015 tried to explain to the panel of scientists on The View about evolution. Unfortunately, due to the questioning environment, Dr. Carson did not have opportunity to explain that God-provided "micro-evolution" occurs only within each of the "kinds" created in the Beginning.  Anyway, just enjoy this clip and then go on down to the "Fisheries Phil"  discussion and video following.

EPIGENETICS FINALLY LETS SCIENCE CATCH UP WITH THE GENESIS HISTORY OF CREATION.  A BEAUTIFUL HAND-IN-GLOVE FIT:  IMMANENT ADAPTATION FILLS VARIETY OF NICHES OF THE EARTH - EXPANDING WITHIN CREATED "KINDS."

THIS FOLLOWS UP ON THE "JACOB EPIGENETiC ENGINEEER" DISCUSSION ABOVE.  Epigenetic environmental adaptation is the basis of the Immanent Adaptation Model (IAM).  For seekers of truth, the Creation-Evolution controversy has recently become much simpler.  God's command in Genesis to "fill the earth" fits like a glove with newly emerging epigenetics evidence of immanent and rapid differential adaptation (within family/kind in Bible terminology, within genus and species in taxonomic terminology) in response to environmental conditions.  What is "immanent"? It means "coming from within", which to Bible believers means God created plants and animals from the Beginning with built-in mechanisms to rapidly adapt, WITHIN CREATED KINDS,  to different environmental, nutritional, climatological and social niches as they spread across the earth, skies, and seas from Creation (and less effectually after the Flood).  Inherently natural  adaptation was a topic of the Altenberg 16 Summit made famous in 2010 by Susan Mazur. In this video, "fisheries Phil" shows that Natural Selection (random variation followed by differential survival) simply can not do the job to produce fossil forms or living forms seen today. The Immanent Adaptation Model (IAM) is (1) Directed Variation within "kinds" driven by a genomic "program" with external "variable" input, followed by (2) differential distribution driven by geography, environment, etc. This fits precise demands of Biblical theology, and also fits fossil forms and change processes seen in living forms today. True genomic degradation diminishes further adaptive functionality or reversal processes (we can not go back to Adam). The Epigenetic Adaptation program is stunningly similar to but far more complex than today's most advanced computing systems.  Complex computer systems are designed by intelligence.  Much more so, Phil affirms, must be the IAM system. And to clarify: IAM results may often be called "micro-evolution”. For sure THIS IS NOT  "macroevolution". Posted with permission of P. Gaskill and DSA. TSFT16-Dec