(Genesis 1:1 Nelson's New King James Version) Throughout time there have been people who have tried to disprove the belief that a holy God created the earth on which we now live. ... In his book, The Battle for the Beginning, John MacArthur states that "One of the unique features of the creation account in Genesis is a repeated stress on the divine creation by fiat--meaning that a simple decree from God brought the created thing into being" (49). ... Arch Bishop James Ussher used the genealogies of the Bible and arrived at a date for the creation of the earth at 4004 B.C. ... No such...

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The Book of Invasions was filled with fabricated stories from different backgrounds of people, made into one to reconstruct Irish history by the king of Munster. ... During the Norse invasions the manuscripts were tossed about in water; an estimate of three hundred manuscripts survived that were written before the seventeenth century (Hazard, Benjamin James. ... For the sake of this research paper and limited time the only version of The Tain that will be used is the one translated by Ciaran Carson. ... This group of people's history was not mentioned in Book of Invasions that the king o...

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