References:

(1) “Genesis: God, Creation, and Destruction” by Dennis Prager.

(2) The word “Genesis” is a Greek word, signifying origin or beginning.

(3) Jesus’ view of marriage: one man with one woman, becoming one flesh, for one lifetime.

(4) Inherent in the 2 verses, Genesis 1:28 and 2:24, is the conclusion that the proper place for sex is between a male and a female in marriage.

(5) The structure of Genesis 1 is that there are 30 verses that speak about the physical events of creation and only one verse that speaks about spiritual events (1:26).

(6) But chapter 2 reverses the structure from that of Genesis 1. In Genesis 2:4-25 most of the verses are speaking about creation from a spiritual perspective rather than from a physical perspective.

(7) Article in Presbyterian and Reformed Review entitled “Jean Astruc” by Howard Osgood (1892), pp. 97-101.

(8) Article in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 15 entitled “The Conjectures of Jean Astruc” by Eamonn O’Doherty (1953), pp. 300-304.

This is episode 129.