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Christians are called YEC's (Young Earth Creationists) because they believe the heavens and earth were created in six days. The Scriptures plainly teach that each day of creation was one rotation of the earth's sphere.
Genesis is Scripture and the original manuscripts were therefore God inspired. 2 Timothy 3:16. Translations available today, while not perfect, are a very accurate record of the original manuscripts.
The plain meaning of Scripture is to be accepted with consideration given to the context. Genesis is a historical, eyewitness account of Creation.
Since Genesis is God inspired, it is a truthful, and accurate in all that it asserts as fact.
Genesis plainly states that:
The heavens, earth and all living creatures were created in six days.
(Genesis 1, Exedus 20:11)
Genesis 1 gives a chronology of the account of creation on each of the six days.
Death came as a result of sin. There was no death prior to the fall. (Romans 5:12)
Everything created by God was very good.
(Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31)
Adam and Eve were the first man and woman created by God. They were made from the ground.(Genesis 1:26-27)
It is important Genesis is understood by Christians to be an accurate historical record, because it forms the basis of many of our Christian doctrines, including salvation. (Romans 5:12-21)
God did not use evolution to create those lifeforms we witness today, as that would erroreously imply:
Death and sin existed before the fall,
Creatures were able to change from one kind to another,
Creation took many millions of years.
God is infinite. His word is perfect, and He cannot lie. Any problems man encounters trying to reconcile Scripture with science are due to man's own limited understanding and fallen nature.
Hmm. Didn't know that about the KJV.mhess13 said:I would agree with that. However, many YEC's are hardcore KJV only translation and believe that the KJV is perfect. Dr. Kent Hovind would certainly take this position.
PotLuck said:It was my understanding that if you believed ALL the bible, believed every word to be true then you were simply labeled "a believer".
Be careful. There are passages that are intended to be interpretted allegorically. egOur only strength is taking the bible literally, every word.
Many prophetic passages use a lot of allegory.eg.Galatians 4
Two Covenants
(1) 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24which things are symbolic. For these are the[1] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar-- 25for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children-- 26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27For it is written:
"Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband."[2]
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."[3] 31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
You have to take each passage as it comes. In some prophesies it is hard to distinguish between the literal and allegorical. No such doubt exists in Genesis. It is a historical record of Creation.Revelation 12
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Translations available today, while not perfect, are a very accurate record of the original manuscripts.
Agree with you PotLuck. I wouldn't be accentuating those kind of differences in the church, especially in an area where there are few Christians.PotLuck said:We can't be split on issues of the bible here in Salt Lake as we are here on this forum. We would collapse, simple as that. That's the reality here. The forum here isn't the "real world" so-to-speak. Sure, there are those who read this forum and just about anything else out there on the net.
But when you're out there face to face with open bibles there's no room for division. It won't work. Not here.
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