Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free

e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

We're going through a book of the Bible called Genesis. If you don't know where it is, easy.

Just open, you're there.

You've made it.

Congratulations.

And as we're going through this great book of the Bible, I want you to know that this is the book that God wrote.

This is the only perfect thing on Earth, and if we want a word from God, we need to open the word of God.

And not only is it true, and some of you... from God, we need to open the word of God.

And not only is it true, and some of you

have had these questions as we're in Genesis,

are these mythical or historical realities?

The people, places, and events, they're all true.

But the Bible is not just true.

It's truer than true.

Because there are some things that are true,

like an accounting survey or like a phone book.

But here, what we find is it's true not just for the people it was

written to, but it's true for everyone everywhere.

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