I’ve come to the final installment of this series on Genesis 1-2. In the previous posts I’ve highlighted the YEC bias. I have shown from the Bible how they have distorted the text to support their global flood indoctrination. Then, I shown from the Bible how they have misinterpreted the creation days in Genesis and how YEC embarrass themselves but distorting science to support their errors. Because of their pride and arrogance, they are unable to accept their distortion of the Bible and science earning unbeliever’s ridicule. Finally, I have come to my last critique of the YEC delusion on their addition to the Bible of no death of any kind before the fall of Adam and Eve. In my post Dissecting YEC (Part 2) I’ve compared the difference between the YEC and OEC on Genesis creation days. I want to reference back to that table. YEC argument goes like
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Let’s take a break from the YEC delusion, even though I am on the opposite side with the YEC on this too. What else is new. 😂 Genesis 9:25 (ESV) “he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” The problem with this curse by Noah is that he is cursing someone who did not commit the sin. Whatever Ham did, it was Ham who sinned, Canaan was innocent of any wrongdoing. It does not seem just or fair to curse the son for the sin of the father. Let’s get one thing straight from the onset, what did Ham do that was so bad and it warranted Noah’s curse. He saw his father naked and went and told his brothers. Genesis 9:22 (ESV) “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.” And then
In my last post I laid out the case based on the Bible alone why the young earth creationists are wrong, Genesis 1-2 cannot be 24-hr days. I’ve also shown how YEC have elevated themselves and their biases to be the orthodoxy that everyone must be measured by. We can pray for them but I don’t think they will ever change. They are like some of the early Church Fathers who clings to a flat earth because they claim to have the only correct interpretation of the Bible. Lactantius (c. 250–325 CE) is the most direct example of a Church Father explicitly rejecting a spherical Earth and leaning on biblical language to mock the “pagan philosophers” who taught otherwise. He would rely on verse like Psalm 104:5, Isaiah 40:22 as direct evidence the earth is flat. YEC are the Lactantius of our time. YEC are hiding behind their fear of
What is the age of the earth and God’s entire creation? If you have been reading these posts, you would be blind if you don’t see the YEC refrain that it all comes down to reading the Text plainly. The only reason you don’t see Gensis 1 is describing a 24-hr day, is because you are taking external science and forcing it onto the plain reading of the Text. Honestly, I think there is a lot of appeal to this line of argument by the YEC. As Christians we know we have been persecuted throughout history. Even today we are marginalized for our beliefs and ridicule for being anti-science, mocked for believing in miracles. So, when YEC sound the clarion call to rally around the Bible we instinctively answer that call. Unfortunately, some and I emphasize only some of those ridicules are earned by YEC. As I have repeatedly said
Flood Theology Was the flood global or local? As a Christian we need to look at this theologically first and foremost. We then should examine if our understanding reflect reality because God is not the God of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NASB95) “for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” God’s Word is infallible but we are not, especially YEC. So, let’s look at the flood account. Genesis 71 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear right from the start, unless YEC want to established themselves as the new Catholic church with Ken Ham as their Pope, take everything they say as just their opinions. I say this not to be derisive but as a statement of fact. Almost universally the recent YEC will claim they are the only ones who uphold the truth of the Bible and the sole people who knows what the Bible says especially in Genesis 1-11. They don’t even say they are interpreting Genesis. In their mind what they say is actually what the Bible said. “What’s amusing is that some people think that it’s as if simply stating this obvious truth (that the Hebrew word used for day in Genesis 1 [Yom] can mean something other than a literal day) is some resounding rebuttal to the plain reading of the Genesis text (and all