Get off that 6/24 business!
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0619Robertson.asp
Pat Robertson, well-known founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN-TV) and host of the 700 Club TV program, recently took a swipe at people who are dogmatic that the Bible teaches Creation in six 24-hour days. During a 17 June broadcast, Robertson said, I sure wish hed get off that 6/24 business, speaking about Michael Farris, founder and president of Patrick Henry College in Virginia (USA), who requires his teachers to believe and teach a six-day Creation.
I totally disagree with the evolutionary hypothesis. I think it is clearly flawed. It is not good science. And I think more and more top-notch scientists are saying this isnt true. But Terry, if somebody set before you a piece of paper and said, Sign on penalty of your life God created the world in six 24-hour days, what would you say?
Terry Meeuwson, co-host of the 700 Club: I couldnt do it because I dont know. No-one was here at that time. [Robertson laughs.] The Bible says a day is as a thousand years to the Lord. I have no idea the specifics of what that was like.
Robertson: Im with you, I couldnt either because, you know, we could be looking at a solar day; we could be looking at a universal day; we could be looking at a galactic day. It doesnt have to be one revolution of the Earth. And I mean, [as] you say, nobody was there.
Terry: When youre talking about the creation of a universe, I think its very presumptuous to think that we could understand or even should understand every element of that and be able to define it and put it in a box system.
Robertson: Genesis was never intended as a science textbook. Genesis is the backdrop for the introduction of the Jewish race through Abraham, which was Gods agency of salvation through Jesus Christ. Thats what Genesis is all about.
I mean, if God intended a textbook, he wouldnt be, you know, talking about the sun in the sense of the moon and all this kind of thing because its phenomenal language. Its what you see. And when I look out, I see the sun rise, and I see the sun set. We know now the sun doesnt rise and the sun doesnt set. But the Bible talks about from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. But its poetical language.
It [the Earth] actually revolves, but the writer of the Bible doesnt say, Well, the Earth revolved on its axis, and therefore it looked like the sun was coming up. [Instead, the Bible says,] From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same.
[The Bible also says in Psalm 114:4] The little hills skipped like lambs. Well, I mean, nobody really thinks the hills skipped. This is poetry! And to stake your whole faith on the basis of misinterpretation of poetry, to me, is a mistake.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0619Robertson.asp
Pat Robertson, well-known founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN-TV) and host of the 700 Club TV program, recently took a swipe at people who are dogmatic that the Bible teaches Creation in six 24-hour days. During a 17 June broadcast, Robertson said, I sure wish hed get off that 6/24 business, speaking about Michael Farris, founder and president of Patrick Henry College in Virginia (USA), who requires his teachers to believe and teach a six-day Creation.
I totally disagree with the evolutionary hypothesis. I think it is clearly flawed. It is not good science. And I think more and more top-notch scientists are saying this isnt true. But Terry, if somebody set before you a piece of paper and said, Sign on penalty of your life God created the world in six 24-hour days, what would you say?
Terry Meeuwson, co-host of the 700 Club: I couldnt do it because I dont know. No-one was here at that time. [Robertson laughs.] The Bible says a day is as a thousand years to the Lord. I have no idea the specifics of what that was like.
Robertson: Im with you, I couldnt either because, you know, we could be looking at a solar day; we could be looking at a universal day; we could be looking at a galactic day. It doesnt have to be one revolution of the Earth. And I mean, [as] you say, nobody was there.
Terry: When youre talking about the creation of a universe, I think its very presumptuous to think that we could understand or even should understand every element of that and be able to define it and put it in a box system.
Robertson: Genesis was never intended as a science textbook. Genesis is the backdrop for the introduction of the Jewish race through Abraham, which was Gods agency of salvation through Jesus Christ. Thats what Genesis is all about.
I mean, if God intended a textbook, he wouldnt be, you know, talking about the sun in the sense of the moon and all this kind of thing because its phenomenal language. Its what you see. And when I look out, I see the sun rise, and I see the sun set. We know now the sun doesnt rise and the sun doesnt set. But the Bible talks about from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. But its poetical language.
It [the Earth] actually revolves, but the writer of the Bible doesnt say, Well, the Earth revolved on its axis, and therefore it looked like the sun was coming up. [Instead, the Bible says,] From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same.
[The Bible also says in Psalm 114:4] The little hills skipped like lambs. Well, I mean, nobody really thinks the hills skipped. This is poetry! And to stake your whole faith on the basis of misinterpretation of poetry, to me, is a mistake.
