Hello S.E.,

Thanks for taking the time to respond, my friend.

You’re correct; a short article is not long enough to address the intimacies of every genre and style in Scripture.

But it is long enough to establish the heart of the matter: all Scripture is reliable, accurate, inspired, and trustworthy.

I don’t suggest that any Gospel writer lies, nor do I claim that they clash. They don’t.

The four Gospels cohere perfectly. There is not a single contradictory bit among them.

Of course, that’s easy for me to say. But if you see it with your own eyes, that’s quite another. Johnston Cheney compiled every detail from all four Gospels into a single account. He adds no words and leaves none out; it is only the words of all four Gospels in chronological order. And it flows perfectly — absolutely perfectly. You can see it yourself in his book, The Life of Christ in Stereo.

Likewise, there are no scientific errors in Genesis. Many assume this because the add information to the text that isn’t there. But the simple reading of the text coheres beautifully with what science reveals.

For instance: on which Day of creation did God make the earth?

It’s a trick question. God created the earth in Genesis 1:1, three verses before Day 1 begins.

Before Day 1 starts, Genesis describes God creating the heavens (all celestial bodies in the heavens) and the earth. The earth is warm, has liquid water on the surface (which the Spirit of God hovers above), and therefore has a strong atmosphere, all before Day 1 begins.

In other words, Genesis 1:1–2 compresses billions of years into a few sentences, yet gets all the details right:

• The universe is created first
• The creation of the earth comes second (the Bible is the only ancient cosmology get the order right!)
• Before life can appear, the earth must be capable of supporting it, having a warm atmosphere and liquid water
• The earth is one part of the universe, not the center of it or the whole of it

The long and short is this: the Bible is accurate in everything it says, in every genre it uses, in every field it addresses.