So, I have recently become convinced of theistic evolution and see Genesis as mytho-history.
Something I am still wrestling with is the extent of the Bible's infallibility.
I think the Bible is true in everything it teaches, and contains no errors (aside from perhaps scribal errors) but that doesn't mean we ought to impose our modern 21st Century assumptions onto the text. The Scriptures, are first, and foremost, a theological text. I do accept most of the accounts in the OT as having actually happened and many figures mentioned as being real people, but I also recognize the Bible also was written under the author's cultural context and uses figurative language and embellishments.
However, I would still say I am affirm the Evangelical view of inerrancy and the verbal plenary inspiration of Scripture. I just don't think evolution and non-literal understanding of the text contradict a high view of Scriptures
I've seen some Christians claim the Bible is infallible only in matters of faith and practice, and tbh, I'm not sure where I land.
What about you?
I’m fully convinced that the Bible is 100% inspired by God and that the Earth is approximately 6,000 years old, and I’ll tell you some of the reasons why.
The models of the secular scientists are built on many presumptions. For example, they estimated Pluto to be a cold dwarf planet, but when they take a closer look, they are baffled by their findings as it still has volcanic activity. So they try to rethink their conclusions, but they never go with the obvious reason that stares them in the face: the universe is young. It is always some other path that they seek, and it is never a young universe because they are intent on showing the Bible to be wrong even if that means that they remain baffled in their findings.
Here’s an obvious one:
The Earth can’t be billions of years old. The moon is slowly receding away from the Earth at about 2 to 3 inches per year. If we were to rewind the clock, it is not possible for the moon or Earth to be 4.53 billion years old as the “scientists” say. This movement is not linear. The closer the moon is to the Earth the faster it is moving. It if were twice as close to the Earth, it would be 64 times as fast. The moon would be touching the Earth a billion years ago. This would tear the Earth to pieces and boil away the oceans. The Earth is purported to be 4.5 billion years old. 6,000 years ago, on the Bible’s timescale, the moon would have moved only about a few hundred feet.
Here’s another regarding evolution and information:
It is impossible for Evolution to create information. Evolution can never create DNA, as random chance processes, given a zillion years, can never create information. DNA is programming code based on reasoning, algorithms, and logic. It creates code that tells proteins how to make functioning protein structures and machine building factories that make organelles for cell function. Information cannot create itself. Chance from evolution can never produce logical code-based language no matter how many zillions of years you give it. Hence, evolution can never create DNA.
DNA is much more complicated than computer code. Computer code is based on T’s and F’s (trues and falses). DNA doubles the parameters: A, C, G, and T. It even includes a self-correcting mechanism for errors. Random chance processes cannot create code language that is based on logic and reasoning.
The sands on the shore will never spell out a sentence no matter how many billions of years the wind blows on it. A computer program will never create itself. Only an intelligent being is able to program the information within the miles of strands of DNA, which contain information.
One more regarding male and female:
Gender (I mean: male and female) debunks evolution. Evolution cannot and does not create in pairs. Where did sex begin? By Evolution’s definition: Evolution requires millions of years for something to randomly evolve by chance processes. If by chance, Evolution was to somehow create an egg producing female anatomy by random chance processes over millions of years, it cannot at the same moment of time and the same place randomly generate a male compatible counterpart to get to the next generation. The original female will die before her male counterpart evolves through millions of years of random chance processes. Both male and female would have to be created on the same day and proximity. But the Bible says that God created man in His own image, both male and female He created them.
I could keep going and this could get long; for the sake of brevity, I’ll stop there. But it is important to understand that God and His Word are real. He said that He spoke the universe into being in only 6 literal days and rested on the seventh. Those 6 days is His miracle week. God does not require the laws of physics during His miracle week. An observer of His creation can only use the laws of physics within His creation to try to figure out what happened at the beginning. But God is outside of His laws and physics. Physics does not govern the mechanisms of creation. God’s word miraculously spoke it into existence. God’s truth usurps facts. Facts say that a person cannot rise from the dead or walk on water or immediately stop a storm by speaking to it; but God’s Truth says otherwise.
I’ll hint at a few more: even DNA of humans trace back only to 6,000 years. But you won’t get this information from secular scientists; you’ll have to start learning from Christian scientists that do not start their findings from a model of secular assumptions. Even Pharoah’s army of chariots was recently discovered and filmed under the middle of the Red Sea, but this has gone under wraps on secular media because they do not want people to know anything that goes against their secular world view. You’ll have to find this by searching. I really could go on and on, but this should suffice.
