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Both K.H.'s are the ones that the media likes to interview whenever the question comes up on what Christianity has to say regarding the age of the earth....its akin to the media always interviewing the good 'ol boy in the single wide trailer as to getting the scoop on the tornado that just swept through the area...
YEC's do more harm than good in recruiting an educated populous.
YEC missionaries can recruit to the faith due to the fact that the majority of third world recruits don't know an old earth from a young earth...
Christianity could take a queue from islam in that regard - as almost all Muslims that I have encountered are OEC.
YEC's do more harm than good in recruiting an educated populous.
YEC missionaries can recruit to the faith due to the fact that the majority of third world recruits don't know an old earth from a young earth...
Christianity could take a queue from islam in that regard - as almost all Muslims that I have encountered are OEC.
That man's thinking is fallen - thus romans 12
That man is at enmity with God? thus the need for a savior
That there are foolish speculations built against the knowledge of God? thus the Bible itself
That the prince of this world satan has his own fortresses such as Evolution set up? The Biblical Worldview
That just because Islam - which is a false religion - agrees with something, we should to?
Are we Snobs because we know more than people in the third world?
The demons believe the Bible and act on it in faith and tremble more than we fallen humans will submit to it and act upon it
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I have studied the original Biblical languages more than most people I have encountered...and I remain an OEC more firmly than ever...
God created the heavens and earth in six days (literal days, not many years)
On day 6 he created man
Mankind has only been walking the earth for approximately 6000 years.. So either the earth is that young. Or the Scripture has lied to us all..
There is only one way to eternal Salvation, and that is through the belief in, and the worship of, the Triune Creator of the Universe as He has revealed Himself in the Holy Bible.
How are non-Christians going to receive this message if all they see in internal confusion over a basic issue as to the age of the earth..?
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six days,, the evening and the morning.
Not the first year to the many more years later..
6847 II. עֶרֶב (ʿě·rěḇ): n.[masc.]; ≡ Str 6153; TWOT 1689a—1. LN 67.191 evening, sundown, i.e., the period of time related to the setting of the sun, from late or very late afternoon to the beginning of the dark night time (1Sa 14:24); 2. LN 67.163–67.200 unit: בַּיִן הַ־ עֶרֶב (bǎ·yin hǎ- ʿě·rěḇ)2 twilight, dusk, i.e., the period of time between sunset and dark (Ex 12:6; 16:12; 29:39, 41; 30:8; Lev 23:5; Nu 9:3, 5, 11; 28:4, 8+); 3. LN 67.163–67.200 night, i.e., the period of time that is after sunset and twilight, a dark time of the night (Job 7:4; Ps 30:6[EB 5]+)
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
1332 II. בֹּקֶר (bō·qěr): n.masc.; ≡ Str 1242; TWOT 274c—1. LN 67.163–67.200 morning, i.e., the early part of the daytime period, which can vary from early daybreak, to an undetermined time before midday when the sun is at its apex (1Sa 1:19), note: for another interp, of Ps 5:4b[EB 3b]+ see 1331; note: for MT text in Isa 26:9, see 7931; 2. LN 67.163–67.200 tomorrow morning, next morning, i.e., the early part of a next day (Ex 16:12; 1Sa 19:2); 3. LN 67.163–67.200 unit: עֶרֶב בֹּקֶר (ʿě·rěḇ bō·qěr)2 one day, i.e., a period of time, approximately 24 hour period (Da 8:14), note: cf. also Ge 1:5ff.
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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six days,, the evening and the morning.
Not the first year to the many more years later..
6847 II. עֶרֶב (ʿě·rěḇ): n.[masc.]; ≡ Str 6153; TWOT 1689a—1. LN 67.191 evening, sundown, i.e., the period of time related to the setting of the sun, from late or very late afternoon to the beginning of the dark night time (1Sa 14:24); 2. LN 67.163–67.200 unit: בַּיִן הַ־ עֶרֶב (bǎ·yin hǎ- ʿě·rěḇ)2 twilight, dusk, i.e., the period of time between sunset and dark (Ex 12:6; 16:12; 29:39, 41; 30:8; Lev 23:5; Nu 9:3, 5, 11; 28:4, 8+); 3. LN 67.163–67.200 night, i.e., the period of time that is after sunset and twilight, a dark time of the night (Job 7:4; Ps 30:6[EB 5]+)
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
1332 II. בֹּקֶר (bō·qěr): n.masc.; ≡ Str 1242; TWOT 274c—1. LN 67.163–67.200 morning, i.e., the early part of the daytime period, which can vary from early daybreak, to an undetermined time before midday when the sun is at its apex (1Sa 1:19), note: for another interp, of Ps 5:4b[EB 3b]+ see 1331; note: for MT text in Isa 26:9, see 7931; 2. LN 67.163–67.200 tomorrow morning, next morning, i.e., the early part of a next day (Ex 16:12; 1Sa 19:2); 3. LN 67.163–67.200 unit: עֶרֶב בֹּקֶר (ʿě·rěḇ bō·qěr)2 one day, i.e., a period of time, approximately 24 hour period (Da 8:14), note: cf. also Ge 1:5ff.
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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Just need to do a lot of theological bends, twists, and eisegetical study starting out with man's desire for there to be no God, and that we came from animals therefore there is no creator- that is the starting point of the Evolutionary worldview - ie naturalism - that matter, time, and the laws of nature are all that is needed to explain the world.
Or on Uniformitarianism which tells us that the key to the past is the present, but the Bible teaches us that the key to the present is the past. And that people only say it looks "old" because the world systems are constantly perpetuating it to us - rather than renewing the mind
Or on Uniformitarianism which tells us that the key to the past is the present, but the Bible teaches us that the key to the present is the past. And that people only say it looks "old" because the world systems are constantly perpetuating it to us - rather than renewing the mind
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As the world becomes better and better educated, YEC will become an increasingly hard-sell.
I predict it will go the way of the dinosaurs...
I predict it will go the way of the dinosaurs...