When I was a young lad, I would sit for hours and play with dominoes.  One of my favorite things to do with them was to stand them up on end in a row and see how many I could cause to topple over by tipping the first one over toward the second.  I remember expressing real excitement when I would cause several to fall in sequence and disappointment when only a few would fall.
     The term "Domino Theory" has been derived from this game that children love to play.  The theory basically says that if one thing happens, it has an effect upon another.   The effect upon that thing in turn has an effect upon the next and so on down the line we go.  This term has been applied in many different arenas.  In the Political realm, the term is applied to invading countries.  It is said that if one country falls to an expansionist power, the next or neighboring countries will inevitably fall in turn (World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary -- 1995).  The same principle can be applied to the collection of books that has become known as the Bible.  The Bible is so interwoven, that if one part of the Book falls, much of the rest of it will fall as well.  Let us take a look at this "Domino Theory" as it relates to the Good book.
     In Collins Bible Handbook, p. 132 we read these words, "The Old Testament begins with two separate accounts of the Creation (Gen 1 and 2)....These first chapters are a great poem to the glory of God the Creator.  They are not intended to explain how the world was made or how mankind came into being.  The Bible leaves scientific truth to the scientists."  We should all know how scientists explain how the world came into existence.  If we take their explanation as truth we must reject the first two chapters of the Book of books.  By doing away with the first two chapters of the Bible, we have created a Domino effect with the rest of the Scripture.  By the time all the dominoes are finished toppling, there will be very little left.
     If the first two chapters of the book of Genesis cannot be trusted as truth, who can honestly say that any of that book can be trusted?  There goes the first domino.  Moses wrote the book of Genesis and if what he wrote in Genesis 1 and 2 cannot be trusted, how can we trust the other things he wrote?  There go Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (the next four dominoes).  When we start studying the rest of the Bible, it is immediately perceived that the other writers also believed the Genesis account of creation.  The Psalmist wrote, "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created" (Ps.148:5).  Isaiah wrote of God, "I have made the earth, and created man upon it" (Is.45:12).  Malachi asked the questions, "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" (Mal.2:10).  There go Psalms, Isaiah and Malachi (the next three dominoes).
     Then we move into the New Testament and we find the Lord Himself giving support to the creation penned by Moses.  He said, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female" (Mt.19:4) referring to the creation of man and woman.  He also said, "For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time" (Mk.13:19).  If Jesus said these things in support of the Genesis account of creation, how can we trust anything he said?  There go Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (the next four dominoes).
     We also have the apostle Paul teaching that creation found in Genesis.  He said, "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man" (1Cor.11:9).  Again he wrote that God "created all things by Jesus Christ" (Eph.3:9).  But he didn't stop there!  He wrote, "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth" (Col.1:16).  Finally he wrote that some would command to "abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth" (1Tim.4:3).  It looks as if Paul believed the Genesis account of creation and if so, we are forced to throw out every thing Paul wrote or said.  There go Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy and Philemon (more dominoes).
     When we look farther, we find Peter writing about the creation.  He wrote, "And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation" (2 Peter 3:4).  We also should consider the book of Acts.  Much of it is about the life of Paul and Peter, and it was written by Luke; therefore, we are going to have to reject it.  Just as well, we find it written in the book of Hebrews, "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:2). We might want to consider that John, the same person who wrote the book of John, also wrote 1st, 2nd and 3rd John.  There go the two letters of Peter, Hebrews, the three letters of John and the book of Acts (more dominoes).
     By the time we are finished with the references to the first two chapters of the Book of books, we find that Amos, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Chronicles, Nehemiah, Job, Zachariah, Jeremiah, Jonah and James have all fallen.  This is in addition to the ones already mentioned.
     It may be that some dominoes were not placed correctly in order and as a result did not fall.  However, let us take a look at what we have left.  In the Old Testament we have 21 of the 39 books left.  In the New Testament we have the epistle of Jude remaining.  The dominoes have fallen.
     Let it not be forgotten that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16-17