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The Genesis Trial
Paperback
Series: The Cross Examination, Book 6
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
Publisher: Alfred Basta
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The doorway to every other chapter is on trial. If we lose the doorway, we lose the house.
In the United States of 2044, teaching biblical truth as fact is a federal crime. Under the restrictive Statute on Religious Authority (SRA), the Office of Statutory Inquiry (OSI) has systematically dismantled the foundations of faith. They have come for doctrine. They have come for historical reliability. Now, they are coming for the foundation of it all: Genesis.
Dr. Christian Cross, a fifty-two-year-old professor of apologetics in eastern Tennessee, is a widower who has endured four prior legal trials to defend his faith. But this sixth trial is different. Backed by the aggressive, private legal foundation known as the Athenaeum, the prosecution has leveled an existential charge: that a literal six-day creation, a young earth, a global Flood, and the historical genealogies of Genesis are empirically refuted pseudoscience.
Led by Bram Frey, a brilliant, Oxford-trained advocate who has never lost a philosophical match, the prosecution brings a devastating array of arguments: the cosmic microwave background, radiometric dating, and deep-time fossil records. To isolate the defense, Frey successfully moves to bar the entire library of creationist literature from the courtroom.
Faced with an opponent who intends to retire the first chapter of the Bible permanently, Dr. Cross and his legal team make a high-stakes, counter-intuitive move. They concede the motion. Armed only with secular, peer-reviewed mainstream scientific journals, Cross prepares to meet Frey on his own territory.
The Genesis Trial is the gripping sixth installment in The Christian Cross Trials series. A thought-provoking legal thriller that can completely stand alone, this novel masterfully weaves together intense courtroom drama, rigorous philosophy of science, and a moving story of a family navigating grief, truth, and the unshakeable foundations of faith.
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