coffee4u
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You seem to impute motives to people you don't know.
Like anyone all I have to go on are your words.
I suspected your motives due to how you ended the post and then your non engagement with the answers I provided. I believe your motives are to argue.
Since I explained I would rather not argue then you also knew you were wasting my time.
If your motivation was to actually find out what others believe and perhaps to widen your own point of view, you would have shown that by asking respectfully about the answers provided. I am not saying at the end of the day that you must agree with me, but if you are closed down from the beginning then it isn't an exchange to gather any more information or views, just an argument. There are plenty of people on here who enjoy that, so argue with them.
You specifically said you weren't interested in debate - which is quite an odd position to take on a discussion board - so presumably you're just here to "teach". Well, sorry, but that's not how it works.
I am interested in an exchange of ideas based on scripture. Teaching can go both ways. But if someone is interested to know why I am a YEC then I will explain because maybe like me they are new to Christianity and they do not yet have a fixed idea.
Your ideas are fixed, you do not want to hear any other view point which is why I said posts ago that this exchange is a pointless waste of time.
If you had some solid ideas based on scripture I would be willing to look at them. I actually had my YE positioned strengthen by someone on here. When I first came to CF I thought maybe those who said the earth could have sat with no creation occurring for a very long time might have a point since genesis 1 isn't that clear on that, but then someone else pointed out Exodus 20 included the heavens and earth all within that 6 days. I must have read and forgotten about it but I was glad it was pointed out, and I told them that they were right.
I was asking questions of you to see if you had answers. If you did, your position would have had integrity. But I don't think you did have answers.
I did up an entire page of answers.
You just said that you didn't know on what day the earth was created, not how old it was, but it wasn't old. I just don't know where you got that from, but if you think that's an answer, then I confess I don't understand it. So I'm not aiming to be nice, or not nice; just inqusitive.
How about I ask you "when did God create purple?"
I had no answer because it was a silly question.
I don't remember not answering your questions so will try below.
Okay, I will take you at your word.
This website is short, and explains nicely (and with many reasons I agree with). Biblical Reasons to Doubt the Creation Days Were 24-Hour Periods You can disagree with it, but I think it shows that believing in an old earth is not surrender to liberalism, but a robust defense of the integrity of Scripture.
I would rather have your own answers but I will look at this and get back to you.
Well ... this is just confusing. Why are you arguing what God told the disciples about the life of Jesus? Did they not walk with Jesus? Did they not talk with Jesus? Did they not witness His works? Of course. And John 21v25 shows this. Being a first-hand witness to historical events is really not the same as God explaining what happened before you were on the scene.
Sorry I have forgotten what this is referring too.
Well see above. The Bible is a mixture of genres of literature - poetry, history, prophecy, apocalypse - as you know. If you read history the same way you read poetry, you will miss the heart of God's message; the same in reverse. I'm merely saying that I believe God explained prehistory to technologically primitive people in a way they could understand it. He explained things in a way that was comprehensible, because what mattered was that He authored creation, not whether He created in six days or six weeks or six billion years. It's all the same to God.
I also don't know what this is referring to now either. :/
I agree that the Bible has different types of writing. I am not basing my doctrine on poetry.
Death came in with sin. There is no possible way for millions of years to pass without death.
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