06 Genesis 1-11 in the New Testament

Over the past century, evolution has become more entrenched in our schools as supposedly a scientific fact. As a result, the first eleven chapters of Genesis have slowly become an embarrassment to many Christian churches and seminaries. Few people in these churches and seminaries have stopped to consider just how foundational these chapters are to the New Testament. Every New Testament writer and Jesus Christ Himself frequently referred to these early chapters of Genesis. What happens to their credibility if these early chapters are incorrect? Listed below are the seventy one direct references in the New Testament which refer back to these foundational chapters of Genesis.

N T Reference	Topic	Genesis Reference
Matthew 19:4	Created male and female	1:27, 5:12
Matthew 19:5-6	Cleave to his wife; become one flesh	2:24
Matthew 23:35	Righteous Abel	4:4
Matthew 24:37-39	Days of Noah	6:3-5
Mark 10:6	Created male and female	1:26-27, 5:2
Mark 10:7-9	Cleave to his wife, become one flesh	2:24
Mark 13:19	Creation which God created	1:1, 2:4
Luke 3:34-36	Genealogies: Abraham to Shem	11:10-26
Luke 3:36-38	Genealogies: Noah to Adam to God	5:3-29
Luke 11:51	Blood of Abel	4:8-11
Luke 17:27	The flood came and destroyed them all	7:10-23
John 1:1-3	In the beginning God	1:1
John 1:10	World was made through Him	2:3
John 8:44	Father of lies	3:4-5
Acts 14:15	Who made the heaven and the earth	2:1
Acts 17:24	God made all things	1:1-31
Acts 17:26	All nations of mankind from one	9:19, 10:32
Romans 1:20	The creation of the world	1:1-31, 2:4
Romans 4:17	Calls into being that which does not exist	1:1-31
Romans 5:12	Death entered the world by sin	2:16-17, 3:19
Romans 5:14-19	Death reigned from Adam	2:17
Romans 8:20-22	Creation corrupted	3:17-18
1 Corinthians 6:16	Two will become one flesh	2:24
1 Corinthians 11:3	Head of the woman	3:16
1 Corinthians 11:7	In the image of God	1:27, 5:1
1 Corinthians 11:8	Woman from man	2:22-23
1 Corinthians 11:9	Woman for the man	2:18
1 Corinthians 15:21-22	By a man came death	2:16-17
1 Corinthians 15:38-39	To each…seeds of its own (kind)	1:11, 1:21, 1:24
1 Corinthians 15:45	Adam became a living soul	2:7
1 Corinthians 15:47	Man from the earth	3:23
2 Corinthians 4:6	Light out of darkness	1:3-5
2 Corinthians 11:3	Serpent deceived Eve	3:1-6, 3:16
Ephesians 3:9	Created all things	2:3
Ephesians 5:30-31	Cleave to his wife, become one flesh	2:24
Colossians 1:16	All things created by Him	2:1-3
Colossians 3:10	Created in His image	1:27
1 Timothy 2:13-14	Adam created first	2:18-23
1 Timothy 2:14	Woman deceived	3:1-6
1 Timothy 4:4	Everything created by God is good	1:10-31
Hebrews 1:10	Heavens and earth in the beginning	1:1
Hebrews 2:7-8	All things in subjection under Him	1:26-30, 9:2-3
Hebrews 4:3	Works were finished	2:1
Hebrews 4:4	Rest on the seventh day	2:2
Hebrews 4:10	Rest from His works	2:3
Hebrews 11:3	Creation of the universe	1:1
Hebrews 11:4	Abel offered a better sacrifice	4:3-5
Hebrews 11:5	Enoch taken up	5:21-24
Hebrews 11:7	Noah’s household saved	7:1
Hebrews 12:24	Blood of Abel	4:10
James 3:9	Men in the likeness of God	1:27, 5:1
1 Peter 3:20	Construction of the Ark, eight saved	6:14-16, 7:13
2 Peter 2:5	A flood upon the ungodly, eight saved	6:8-12, 7:1-24
2 Peter 3:4-5	Earth formed out of water and by water	1:5-7
2 Peter 3:6	The world destroyed by water	7:17-24
1 John 3:8	Devil sinned from the beginning	3:14
1 John 3:12	Cain slew his brother	4:8, 4:25
Jude 11	The way of Cain	4:8, 4:16, 4:25
Jude 14	Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam	5:3-24
Revelation 2:7	Tree of life	2:9
Revelation 3:14	Beginning of the creation of God	1:1-31, 2:1-4
Revelation 4:11	Created all things	2:3
Revelation 10:6	Who created heaven…and the earth	2:1
Revelation 12:9	Satan the serpent	3:1, 3:14
Revelation 14:7	Who made the heaven and earth	1:1, 2:1, 2:4
Revelation 20:2	The serpent of old, who is the devil	3:1, 3:14
Revelation 21:1	First heaven and first earth	2:1
Revelation 21:4	No more death, sorrow, crying or pain	3:17-19
Revelation 22:2	Fruit of the tree of life	3:22
Revelation 22:3	No more curse	3:14-19
Revelation 22:14	The tree of life	2:9

Note:
1. Every New Testament writer refers to the early chapters of Genesis (Genesis 1-11).
2. Jesus Christ referred to each of the first seven chapters of Genesis.
3. All New Testament books except Galatians, Philippians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and 2 and 3 John have references to Genesis 1-11.
4. Every chapter of Genesis 1-11 except chapter 8 is referred to somewhere in the New Testament.
5. Every New Testament writer apparently accepted these early chapters of Genesis as being historically accurate.

*Based in part on the original work of
Dr. Henry M. Morris as contained in his
book The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth.