There’s a disease that has permeated the church and sadly, the majority of church leaders/Christian academics have been spreading it!
Let me say this bluntly! The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the “symptom,” but not the “disease.”
Although we know sin is the ultimate disease/reason for the secularist naturalistic (anti-God) position, I say again, millions of years is like a disease and biological evolution is like the symptom. Christians need to not only deal with the ‘symptom,’ but also the ‘disease.’
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Evolution, cosmology, geology, and history are all symptoms of responding to observable reality. Got it.
Ken Ham: “It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the glasses of the Bible. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It needs an act of self-destruction, an effort of the will. You must humble yourself before you can become Godly.”
…meanwhile, the DUP in Northern Ireland would call you a heretic for thinking the Earth is just 6,000 years old: as they consider it to be just 4,000 . Also, as the former are ultra -Protestant:
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…thus no Ken, you are the diseases.
And then Hambone was an anti-God zombie.
@Psalm 90,4
A thousand years in your sight
Seventy years, a puny human lifespan this is contrasting with God, contain 25,550 days (ignoring leap years), putting God’s timespan on a scale of tens of millions of years - and in fact, that is just the lower limit, seeing as a thousand years are also compared with a watch of the night, that is, one twelfth of the time between sunset and sunrise - a portion of time that varies over the course of the year (and also with geographic latitude), but is shorter than a day.
So yes, Deep Time is in the Bible. Also, the two incompatible times make it evident that this passage, and thus at least some parts of the Bible are not intended as statements of literal absolute literal facts (and yes, Creationists have used the Psalms, unambiguous poetry, as a source of Biblical “facts”). Note, by the way, that accepting this passage as metaphorical does not actually do anything to resolve, as the imagery is unambiguous - this passage makes no sense if the world is only a few thousand years old (and it also suggests that God is not timeless).
I recently saw a PBS show about Alaskan dinosaurs, full of fascinating details regarding the climate during the Cretaceous, the difficulty reaching fossil beds in Denali National Park, the unexpected diversity of species, etc. It was so interesting that I watched it twice.
Your blather about the wages of sin is weak sauce by comparison. No one needs to hear your nonsense.
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I bet that they know that pushing Young Earth Creationism would make them, along with their gospel, look ridiculous.
Augustine of Hippo wrote it best:
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven , when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?
I tend to think flat earth, creationism, biblical literacy, anti-vax, and a general rebellion against elitism are all symptoms of fear. And homophobia and transphobia are the same fear, at the base.
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