In 1967, in the last year of his life, E.J. Young delivered in Toronto a series of popular addresses which are here reprinted. He had already published more than one book on this same section of Scripture but the forceful, spoken-style of these pages, and the simplicity with which he presents his final thoughts on the key issue in Genesis 1-3, makes this one of the most readable and important of all his writings. Nothing was of greater concern to him than that the Church should speak plainly and boldly on the inspired record of man's creation and fall, and he demonstrates how a full acceptance of the divine authority of the Bible is essential to the proper interpretation of the Genesis narrative. - Back cover.