Young Earth Creation

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Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1: 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Why try to change what is written? It plainly says in the beginning. Not the second or third beginning. Imagination is great when making a movie. Why imagine something other than what God has told us? God does not lie.

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Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was without form, and void; and darkness wason the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

 

 

Matthew 19:

⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made^[a]them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’^[b]5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?^[c]6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

 

The earth and man were all made "in the beginning"

 

Any argument that does not include biblical information is mere speculation

 

the simple fact is that God Has stated that In the Beginning He made it all and all within a time period of seven days

 

not time periods...."So the evening and the morning were the first day."   - Days

 

It is silly to try and make the truth of God to fit the vagaries of men

Those two simple verses put it all in perspective for me, thanks, nice post!

[Guest Teditis]

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1: 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Why try to change what is written? It plainly says in the beginning. Not the second or third beginning. Imagination is great when making a movie. Why imagine something other than what God has told us? God does not lie.

 

I agree with this... regardless of how we read, "The earth was without form and void...", it takes a great deal

of imagining for it to mean that there was something here already that had some semblance of a working

ecosystem... especially when the following Scripture follows this up with an account of creation that includes

separating waters and the beginnings of stars, wildlife and order that follows an ecosystem that is implied to be

different than whatever was before.

Why do we strive to take the simple explanations and force them to be complicated? Just because modern "sciences"

have designed methods of dating things? Haven't we already discredited those methods as specious and arguably

incorrect? (Nothing we have in are arsenal of tools can accurately date things beyond a few hundred years?) It's

hardly scientific to assign designation of time because of processes that are theoretical... we cannot date things as

being millions of years old... it simply is not possible with our current level of knowledge.  Quit believing the hype!

[Guest shiloh357]

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1: 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Why try to change what is written? It plainly says in the beginning. Not the second or third beginning. Imagination is great when making a movie. Why imagine something other than what God has told us? God does not lie.

Amen!

 

 

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1: 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Why try to change what is written? It plainly says in the beginning. Not the second or third beginning. Imagination is great when making a movie. Why imagine something other than what God has told us? God does not lie.

 

I agree with this... regardless of how we read, "The earth was without form and void...", it takes a great deal

of imagining for it to mean that there was something here already that had some semblance of a working

ecosystem... especially when the following Scripture follows this up with an account of creation that includes

separating waters and the beginnings of stars, wildlife and order that follows an ecosystem that is implied to be

different than whatever was before.

Why do we strive to take the simple explanations and force them to be complicated? Just because modern "sciences"

have designed methods of dating things? Haven't we already discredited those methods as specious and arguably

incorrect? (Nothing we have in are arsenal of tools can accurately date things beyond a few hundred years?) It's

hardly scientific to assign designation of time because of processes that are theoretical... we cannot date things as

being millions of years old... it simply is not possible with our current level of knowledge.  Quit believing the hype!

 

I agree, as well.  Well said...

[seandavids]

 

The 6,000 years idea actually comes from th geneaological record back to Adam, not the geological record of the earth. 4004 B.C. is when scholars like Ussher and Bullinger put his forming in God's Garden.

 

The Bible says that creation of the earth and all that is in it took 6 days.   That includes Adam.  It is 6,000 years from Day 1 of creation to  today.  Actually Ussher got it wrong in that he failed to take into account the fact that genealogies in the Bible are often telescoped.

 

I find the 6000 years biblically accurate, but then again we have no record of the mass we see called the earth on the first day of creation, only that it was covered with water and void, we have no idea how long it sat in space or if God had used it in the past, He has been here forever, its not likely God did nothing before our small drop in the bucket of time

[Trahi]

This interests me since the modern eschatoligical fervor has hit a crecendo in regards to Yeshua's return.

 

I believe the Hebrew year's count from Creation is about 5,730 -ish. The Ceda seems to somewhat agree.

 

One aspect that is essentially running concurrently with the years and season's count are the Feast days.

 

I imagine that a scholar far more adept then I could figure out the 'season' and possibly the year of of our Lord's return. Not the day, or the hour, for we are told

that nobody knows this. But as the stars are for years, and the moon for months, and the days for counting, so are the seasons for noting God's

calendar.

 

As such, I do not see that we have reached the 6000 year mark just yet.

 

Peace.

[Guest shiloh357]

 

 

The 6,000 years idea actually comes from th geneaological record back to Adam, not the geological record of the earth. 4004 B.C. is when scholars like Ussher and Bullinger put his forming in God's Garden.

 

The Bible says that creation of the earth and all that is in it took 6 days.   That includes Adam.  It is 6,000 years from Day 1 of creation to  today.  Actually Ussher got it wrong in that he failed to take into account the fact that genealogies in the Bible are often telescoped.

 

I find the 6000 years biblically accurate, but then again we have no record of the mass we see called the earth on the first day of creation, only that it was covered with water and void, we have no idea how long it sat in space or if God had used it in the past, He has been here forever, its not likely God did nothing before our small drop in the bucket of time

 

Problems arise theologically when we try to fill in the cracks with our own assumptions as if they count as biblical, which one reason why I am opposed to the gap theory.  It is just such an attempt and one without any biblical support.   We don't know what God did before He created our universe, and He chose not to tell us.  Rather than creating theories to fill in the missing information, it is far wiser to be silent where the Bible is silent.

[enoob57]

Yes It is very wise not to speak where God has not spoken... Love, Steven

[Salty]

 

 

 

The 6,000 years idea actually comes from th geneaological record back to Adam, not the geological record of the earth. 4004 B.C. is when scholars like Ussher and Bullinger put his forming in God's Garden.

 

The Bible says that creation of the earth and all that is in it took 6 days.   That includes Adam.  It is 6,000 years from Day 1 of creation to  today.  Actually Ussher got it wrong in that he failed to take into account the fact that genealogies in the Bible are often telescoped.

 

I find the 6000 years biblically accurate, but then again we have no record of the mass we see called the earth on the first day of creation, only that it was covered with water and void, we have no idea how long it sat in space or if God had used it in the past, He has been here forever, its not likely God did nothing before our small drop in the bucket of time

 

Problems arise theologically when we try to fill in the cracks with our own assumptions as if they count as biblical, which one reason why I am opposed to the gap theory.  It is just such an attempt and one without any biblical support.   We don't know what God did before He created our universe, and He chose not to tell us.  Rather than creating theories to fill in the missing information, it is far wiser to be silent where the Bible is silent.

 

 

Problem truly is about false assumptions, which are actually about your own assumptions, since your young earth theory doesn't fit God's Word as written, nor the fossil record.

 

They way some folks speak, you'd think God created this earth just a couple of weeks ago!

 

Scopes Monkey Trial: - some would be shocked to find out that the fundamentalist preacher that the evolutionist lawyers were against did not believe God's creation was 6,000 years old. He simply did not believe in evolution theory. The movie with Spencer Tracy was propaganda, it twisted the events in the trial transcripts of how the fundamentalist preacher said he actually believed. Instead Hollywood portrayed the fundamentalist preacher in the movie like some southern illterate hick bent on making a stand against evolution theory.

[Riverwalker]

Yes It is very wise not to speak where God has not spoken... Love, Steven

 

It is equally important not modify where He has.