Have We Misread Genesis 1 All this Time?!

Genesis Isn't BROKEN, Our Questions Are!? And most debates about it never get resolved because they are built on the same hidden assumption. Genesis is often treated as if it is answering a modern question it was never written to address. As a result, conversations keep circling the same arguments. Science versus Scripture. Literal days versus long ages. The discussion rarely pauses to ask whether those were the questions Genesis was engaging in at all. This video does not try to defend Genesis or force it into modern categories. Instead, it examines the framework we have been using to read it. By looking at ancient context, biblical structure, and how theology functioned as a worldview in the ancient world, this teaching explores why Genesis reads the way it does and what becomes clearer when the text is allowed to operate on its own terms. Genesis does not begin with an argument for God. It does not explain itself. It assumes a reality and organizes everything around it. That assumption reshapes how creation, order, humanity, and the rest of Scripture come into focus. This perspective comes from over two decades of studying the Bible across its ancient languages, historical settings, and early manuscripts, with a focus on how these texts were originally meant to function before modern debates reframed them. If this video raises questions you have never been taught to ask, the conversation continues. The next video applies this same lens to what Genesis is doing inside the garden and why that detail matters far more than we are usually told. https://youtu.be/o4Y0zLYn2y4?si=DrusfQ1z2fjYBLf9 Go Deeper: 📗God’s Garden If this perspective feels unfamiliar, that is intentional. Most modern readings of Genesis focus on defending the text rather than understanding how it functioned within the world it was written into. That shift quietly changes theology, purpose, and how the opening chapters of Scripture are understood. In God’s Garden, I explore this more fully by tracing how Genesis corrects the theological worldviews of surrounding cultures and reorients how reality, order, humanity, and sacred space were understood in the ancient world. The book is not about controversy. It is about recovering the framework Genesis assumes before the debates ever begin. If this video reframed how you think about Genesis, God’s Garden is the natural next step to see how that framework unfolds beyond the opening chapter and into the garden itself. https://amzn.to/3RiZihS Chapters / Timestamps: 0:00 Genesis Isn’t Broken. Our Questions Are 0:33 Why Genesis Debates Always Turn Into Warfare 1:38 The Tension Between Faith and Reason 2:02 The Wrong Question We Keep Asking Genesis 2:13 The Lens Being Used in This Study 3:14 Genesis Never Tries to Prove God Exists 3:46 God’s Reality Is a Settled Fact in Genesis 4:22 When Theology Explained the World 5:07 Why Genesis Is Not Competing With Science 6:07 What Happens When We Read Genesis the Wrong Way 6:53 Creation Stories as Claims of Authority 7:28 How Genesis Corrects Other Theologies 7:53 Why Genesis 1 Is Structured the Way It Is 8:21 What Genesis Redefines About Power 8:54 What Genesis Is Actually Declaring 9:27 The Days of Creation Reconsidered 9:53 Creation as a Theological Framework 10:31 God as King, Not Mechanic 10:41 Why Genesis 1 and 2 Are Not Contradictions 11:16 The Image of God in Its Ancient Meaning 12:11 Why Humanity Is the Climax of Genesis 12:28 How Sin Reintroduces Chaos 12:53 How Jesus Restores Genesis Order 13:26 The Question Genesis Forces Us to Ask 14:01 What Changes When the Question Changes