Young Earth Vs. Old Earth

Literal != true

You must know that because you don't take the whole Bible literally, even if you do think that the whole thing is true.



I believe he died on the cross for our sins because the Father asked him to do so. I believe he was raised on the third day because as creation's author, he had power over death.

I'm an OEC. I believe the presence of extremely long-lived isotopes in the Earth's crust, and the apparent lack of naturally occurring isotopes of shorter life (Technetium, for example) proves that the earth is billions of years old.

And I don't think the earth being 4.5 billion y/o necessarily contradicts the Bible. Most historical theologians (Aristobulus, Philo, Origen, Augustine, Justin, etc.) would probably agree since they did not subscribe to the idea that the earth was made in six literal days.

I would say physical death was around as long as there was life. We (humans) are responsible for spiritual death that is in the world, and that is what I see Genesis conveying; spiritual, not physical, death.

But lets see some of that evidence for a young Earth.

Then why did JESUS die on the Cross "Physically" for our sins if humans are only responsible for the "spiritual" death? Spiritual death = Hell. Why do we have physical death?

I will show some of that tomorrow(Today), I am very sleepy right now, it is 12:47 A.m. and I halfway cannot think, LOL!

If 6 days were not literal, then why is it in Genesis the word for "Day" in Hebrew = "yom" = Literal 24 hour days, long periods of time, (and one more I can't remember). But in the case of Genesis it means Literal 24 hour days because it uses the phrase; evening and morning and the number of a day.

The scriptures does not come out and claim the "Planet Earth" is only a few thousand years old. Notice I wrote "Planet Earth" since most of time in scripture the word "earth" is referring to land or continent.
In Revelation there are references to a "New Earth and New Heaven" which could referring to the surface of the planet or a totally new planet as the same with the heavens.

Thus I believe it is very possible the Planet Earth itself could be extremely old as we do not know what God was doing before man. The same as it very possible God could have other creatures on different planets in many galaxies in our universe. Since these issues has nothing to do with man there would be no reason to include them in scripture.
There is a hint something happen to the planet before man even though it does not stand out unless you are looking for it. The description used In Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form and void; and the darkness upon the face of the deep..." is also found in Jeremiah 4:23-27 where it's very obvious Jeremiah was referring to judgment. Thus was there a judgment on earth before man? If true then death would have visited earth at least twice.
I do believe the earth (land) as we now know it is around 6-10 thousand years.

How to explain Romans 5:12 - 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 ? You said man-kind, well, for death to occur there has to be sin. If we are nothing but evolved "creatures" what creature sinned "first" to make it enter the world? Who was the first human for sin to come into the world? If "mankind" did it, prove this biblically.

IMHO the first eleven chapters of Genesis are metaphorical only, so I'm not concerned with the Hebrew language or the meaning of the word "day". The creation story in Genesis was originally penned as a cosmogony, which was a type of ancient literary genre used to explain the "who" and the "why" of creation. Cosmogonies weren't written to tell scientific or historical facts.

If the words were only metaphorical, then they are not true.