Anabaptists and Creationism

[Ezra915]

I have found, from limited experience, that it seems that conservative Baptists tend to be concerned about Creation science and matters pertaining to Genesis 1-11, whereas Anabaptists seem to accept Genesis 1-11 as literal but aren't interested in making much fuss about it. Almost like it's taken for granted that Gen1-11 is true (which I suppose is not a bad thing to take for granted). Thoughts? Am I making too broad of a generalization? Or is there debate over young-Earth creationism among Anabaptists as well?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

no debate, after all, why argue with Yhwh and His Word.?

sure, the world does, but that's the world.

all the simple bible believing living christians(tested and proven) i'm aware of simply believe God and do what He says to do.

all the world doesn't.

 

[Michael Snow]

"Creationism" has come to be a pejorative term. All Christians believe in a Creator and creation. But most seem to use the term to refer to :Young Earth Creationists, who, in fact, do not take all of Genesis 'literally.' In The Beginning « TextsInContext

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

 

[WayneinMaine]

I have found, from limited experience, that it seems that conservative Baptists tend to be concerned about Creation science and matters pertaining to Genesis 1-11, whereas Anabaptists seem to accept Genesis 1-11 as literal but aren't interested in making much fuss about it. Almost like it's taken for granted that Gen1-11 is true (which I suppose is not a bad thing to take for granted). Thoughts? Am I making too broad of a generalization? Or is there debate over young-Earth creationism among Anabaptists as well?

The grandson of a Hutterite woman told me how she believed that the earth is flat. She believed it because the bible said so, and because it was obvious to her as she looked out across the Manitoba prairie.

I respect her perspective - her worldview. It is consistent and sincere.

Young Earth creationism is something that a lot of Mennonites and Amish and Hutterites have bought into from people who need rational evidence of things which are mysteries - and things that are and were irrelevant to their ancestors. It is a part of the effort to assimilate Anabaptists into Fundamentalist Protestantism - a world view as foreign to their ancestors as Christian soldiery fighting for God and Country.