I chose YEC 2

[humbledbyhim]

Please state your reasoning for being a YEC: whether it be past teaching, plain reading plus a leading of the spirit, plain reading, don't know, etc. I'd like anyone who is not YEC not to post, but since I know that you can't stand to be silent (on the keyboard) I can only hope that you will not post.

 

[MatthewDiscipleofGod]

Please state your reasoning for being a YEC: whether it be past teaching, plain reading plus a leading of the spirit, plain reading, don't know, etc. I'd like anyone who is not YEC not to post, but since I know that you can't stand to be silent (on the keyboard) I can only hope that you will not post.

I became a Christian when I was about 23. At first I didn't think much about the issue. I was taught evolution in school and just accepted it. I believe it was on here though I ran across a thread where the debate came up. I noticed that evolutionists didn't use very good logic or sound proof to defend their "theory". Also some good bibical concerns were brought up. So I prayed and did the research from many different perspectives and all the evidence, biblically and scientifically, pointed to a young earth creation.

 

[ChetSinger]

humbledbyhim, this is a creationist-only forum, so your wishes will probably be respected.

I became a Christian as a teenager, but didn't give creation or evolutinon much thought. I figured that whatever happened was beyond my understanding, and I was content with that. I would probably have been classified as a kind of uninformed TE.

What began my change was a daily radio blurb on a Christian radio station named 'back to genesis'. It got me thinking, and investigating. What surprised me was the amount and the quality of answers that creationists actually had. I really had no idea that such a good case could be made for recent creation. Even astronomy, an interest of mine, is now being addressed.

 

[vossler]

At an early age I was exposed to evolution and it never made much sense to me, plus it never could be reconciled with the biblical stories I read as a child. Otherwise I really didn't think about it until I accepted Jesus and became a Christian as a young adult. It wasn't until I thoroughly studied Scripture and with the Holy Spirit's guidance solidified my belief of a young earth. My recent studies into evolution and the evidence of it have done little to nothing to change that.

 

[humbledbyhim]

Thank you for all of your responses. I'd say that I was raised in a semi-christian household. (nobody was saved) however, I had been to church a few times in my very young years. I basically accepted that God created everything, and then evolution came along, and me, not knowing how old the bible implied that the earth was I accepted evolution (withthe exception of the humans coming from ape-like creatures thing.) Once I got old enough to really know Genesis and what evolution was saying, I knew that I had to make a decision. Do I treat the 1st book of the true God like a myth? or do I read it for what it says?(since all textual evidence points to that) I went with the text instead of with man's limited understanding. I don't know the specifics of creation outside of what Genesis says, but I trust God to lead me into all truth.

 

[laptoppop]

Please state your reasoning for being a YEC: whether it be past teaching, plain reading plus a leading of the spirit, plain reading, don't know, etc. I'd like anyone who is not YEC not to post, but since I know that you can't stand to be silent (on the keyboard) I can only hope that you will not post.

I was raised in a non-Christian household. For me, the YEC view is the one most consistent with the Scriptures, and with the physical evidence on the earth, including the geologic column and the fossils. It truly is the best way to describe how they got here.

(I apologize for responding to the TEs in the other thread. I'm always concerned that silence may imply a lack of answers or may imply agreement)

 

[Floodnut]

First I became convinced that what God said in the Bible about the present was true and literal. I knew that just as He said, I am a sinner and I fall short of the Glory of God, and I NEEDED TO BE FORGIVEN and Redeemed.
Then I saw the many prophecies that were fulfilled about the life of Christ so I knew that the Bible was accurate when it spoke about the future. I also saw many other biblical prophecies coming to pass before my very eyes, again confirming accuracy about the future.
Then I started to see how often it was accurate about the past, with Ebla, and the Hitties, and Sir William Ramsay in his survey of Asia Minor showing the accuracy of the New Testament.
I saw that the Bible was accurate in statements about the physical world. So I tried to figure out how to conform the Bible to what I thought were the facts about the physical world, making it fit with evolution. For a long time I held to the day = age view, that the days of Genesis One were geological ages, and that perhaps there was a Gap in between verse one and verse two of the first chapter. Then I learned Hebrew and saw that the "Gap" was grammatical untennable. I also saw quite simply that the order of evolution did not even come close to matching the order of the events of the days of Genesis One. Learning Hebrew also showed me that making the days into anything other than simple days just would not fit the grammar and vocabulary of the chapter.
So the Bible is accurate about the present and it is accurate about the future. It must be accurate about the past. I just take it in its most simple sense, trying to pick up the intent of its human authors. The author of Genesis is putting forward a historical narrative, not a mythology.
Men like Whitcomb and Woodmorappe have strenghtened that position, as well as organizations like AiG and worldwideflood.com.
Jim

 

[mark kennedy]

My view of the New Testament as a reliable and accurate history was how I became interested in the Old Testament as history. I'm mostly interested in YEC as an exercise in evidential apologetics but human evolution was the biggest stinger for me. Having a common ancestor with a chimpanzee would require brain size to triple in size in our lineage and actually get smaller in ape lineages.

By the way, did you know there was only one fossil for chimpanzee ancestors and literally dozens for human lineages? That's because everytime a paleontologist finds a ape like bone in Africa they run around shouting, 'It's the missing link, our long lost ancestor'.

Bottom line evolution is nothing more then a blantantly biased secularist agenda against Christian theism. That's why I'm a YEC the historicity of Scripture and the undermining of Christian theism in modernist literature.

 

[oncelost]

I was raised in a Christian family and never thought too deeply about reconciling Genesis with evolution at a young age. It wasn't until I went to college that I was force-fed evolution as unquestionable fact by avowed atheists that I began to question my faith and, in fact, embraced agnosticism as most reasonable. At age 27, thanks to my wife, I began going to church again and was led by the spirit to recommit to Christ and was led to various resources by Henry Morris, Chuck Colsen, Phillip Johnson, Answers in Geneses, (and, yes, even Kent Hovind with all his faults - you must separate the meat from the bone) etc. I now see how the distiction between historical science v. operational science is foundational in approaching the Creation v. Evolution debate. I now see the absurdity and lack of evidence behind evolution. And YEC jives quite nicely with my creator's Word and the world I observe.