I'll summarizes some of the main points of the video here.  This is largely a question of if the authority of Scriptures, the reliability of the translation of  Scripture, the infallibility of Scripture (as communicated by God the Holy Spirit to the original authors) and the clarity with which God communicated His message to His intended audience.  I typically follow the Historical-Grammatical approach to Biblical Interpretation (see How to Interpret the Bible which speaks of the various approaches to biblical hermeneutics).  With that in mind, a key verse here would be Exodus 20:11 (the justification for the fourth commandment), "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."  This leaves no room for Progressive Evolution, The Gap Theory, or any other Theistic Evolution model that tries to insert millions, billions, or even trillions of years into the Bible (what some people call "deep time").

Without the creation account of Genesis 1, the story of Adam and Eve which gives the foundation of law, government, family, and the good work that God calls us to to "keep" (protect and cultivate) His creation don't make sense.  We then also can't explain the existence of sin and death which are explained by Genesis 3, and then the whole gospel falls apart because if there is no First Adam, there is no need for a Second Adam. 

Also, the end of Revelation doesn't make much sense without a literal interpretation of Genesis as the end is a better version of the beginning.  We see the Tree of Life as bookends of the story--Adam and Eve are kept from the Garden so that they might not eat of the Tree of Life after they sinned, but the Tree of Life is available for all to eat freely in the New Heavens and New Earth.  The video makes other good points, but these were a few that I wanted to highlight.

I had a conversation with a student this week that I feel was worthy to turn into a Faith and Culture blog about the issue of sin...specifically about why it is fair that the world is being judged today for Adam's sin.  I had to explain first that each of us as humans that have free will have now sinned freely and we cannot blame that on Adam.  However, what Adam's sin did was that it changed our nature.  Where Adam and Eve were made to be in perfect communion with God and loved being in His presence, when sin entered the world, they desired instead to rebel against God and do what they felt was right--trying to decide good and evil for themselves.

Every generation since them has now been born with that same tendency to rebel against God and do what is contrary to His Law and divine nature.  They neither desire to know Him nor worship Him, and they definitely don't desire to obey Him.  I asked the student if a child had to be taught to lie or taught to tell the truth?  The student said that lying comes naturally.  I then asked if lying was rebellion against God's Law (sin)?  The student agreed it was.  We talked about several other examples, but I then made the point that the very first time that any of us (even a child) willfully sinned in any way that they knew was wrong, they now have their own sin that needs to be atoned for and we cannot blame that sin on Adam--it was our own choice at that point and it is our own sins which each of us will be judged by when the books are opened one day (unless Jesus has taken our sin debt upon Himself and paid our debt in full).

There is something to be said for God visiting the sins of the fathers on the third and fourth generation because the consequences of sin are long-lasting and multi-generational.  There is no such thing as a "personal choice" to sin that doesn't affect everyone else around you in some way.  That's why I personally can't buy into the Libertarian philosophy that liberty should mean anarchy where there are no rules and everyone does whatever they want.  God's rules are what is best for us personally, for our families and for our society and culture.  It is because He loves us that He gives us good rules to follow.  It is because we do not love Him that we break His rules and act as if we want to be our gods with a little 'g.'

So then what about the fact that Nature and all Creation was corrupted by sin?  How is it fair that things that had no capacity to sin before are now broken and not like they were to start off?  Are the plants and animals and ground all being judged because of Adam's original sin or our own?  The answer is "Yes" to both.  Everything in creation "fell" when Adam did because Adam was the federal head of creation.  Romans 5 talks about this but everything that was "in Adam" (all of mankind and all of creation) fell when Adam sinned, but "in Christ" all of us can be made new.  One day there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth that is no longer corrupted by sin.  We will be restored to what it was like in the Garden of Eden only better.  This time there will be not just one man and one woman, but men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation of the earth.  All people groups will be represented.  We will no longer need to be sexual creatures because the need for reproduction won't exist--there will be no more death and no more aging.  In fact, there won't even be any more time.  We will no longer even have the sun or the moon to tell us whether it is day or night.  We will just always be in the light of His presence forever and ever and it will always be eternal day.  There will be no more need to sleep, but we will have good work to do just like Adam and Eve did when the LORD told them they were cultivate and protect the Garden that He entrusted to them.

So then the question the student asked about do we strive so much because of sin and one day all that will be erased and we will have strived and fought for nothing, the answer is "No."  Those of us who are in Christ will be rewarded for how we live our lives in this life.  Whenever we live in a way that brings glory to God and we don't take the glory for ourselves, we will have another reward ("crown") that we can lay at the feet of Jesus.  When Christ is presented with His Bride, the Church, He will cause all of them to remember this old life no more--there will be no more crying for the decisions that we should have made or the decisions that others made that we are sad they are not with us.  All of that will be wiped away and we will simply be with the Lord forever.  At that point, we will be fully known by Him and fully know Him and everything we need to know, we will know.  We will almost certainly recognize each other as the disciples were able to recognize Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration, but we will also be made to look like Jesus.  Our struggles in this life are not for naught because it brings great glory to Jesus that we love Him and those who love Him will suffer as He has suffered.  We cannot say we love Him if we are not willing to suffer like Him.  We then will have many rewards with which to give him when we get to "heaven," and whether or not we understand the meaning of the rewards at that point we will definitely understand that all the rewards we have received need to be cast down at the feet of Jesus for He is the one worthy of all glory and honor and praise.  Then all heaven and earth will join together in worship of Him, just like they were meant to do from the beginning--but sin ruined that.  I look forward to that day!

 ​John 3
1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
Galatians 5
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Hebrews 10
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1 John 3
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
Romans 6
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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There are many more passages on this topic. Also there are many places which tell us that we will still fall short and sin after we are saved, so please don’t read this as “those who are not perfect are not really saved.” There is a difference between falling into temptation and intentionally, habitually living in sin and making that sin part of your identity. Speaking personally here, I would at one time in my life describe myself as a liar. It was my instinct to lie, sometimes even when I didn’t need to. I would also describe my unregenerate self as being controlled by anger, being manipulative and taking advantage of others, just as a few examples. Unfortunately, I also thought I was a Christian during much of this time because I “said the magic words” when I was a child (prayed the Sinner’s Prayer) and had an intellectual knowledge of what Jesus did on the cross to pay the penalty for sin. I could probably even explain the gospel to someone else and point them to the Bible verses that told them about what they must do to be saved, but my life was empty of any evidence that I myself had been saved because I continued to be controlled by my flesh and my sin nature. It was not until I came to grips with these passages above and others that I realized that I was not really saved if I continued to live in sin to the point where I continued to be identified by my sin nature. I could quote all the Scripture I knew and sing all the Christian songs and hymns that I knew, but ultimately, I was still a caterpillar that had never been transformed into a butterfly.  (That is, the metamorphosis of being "born again" hadn't really taken place).

How about you? Would you say that you have gone through a metamorphosis whereby those who knew you before no longer recognize you? Are you looking for that kind of transformation? There is only one way for that to happen and that is through making Jesus not only Savior, but Lord of your life and to accept that by faith He has the power to put your sin nature to death and to give you a new nature and to give you a new identity so that you can live out the new, eternal life that only He can give you. If you’d like to know more about this, please let me know as I’d be happy to speak with you about it.