Timeline for What factors, according to Young-Earth Creationists, might inhibit the Holy Spirit from guiding a Christian to a literal interpretation of Genesis?
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| Apr 5 at 21:52 | comment | added | Matthew | @RayButterworth, there is more than a little evidence that Earth and other parts of the solar system are not more than thousands of years old, that the Uniformitarian time scale is a load of rubbish, and that humans and dinosaurs co-existed. (And no one is arguing that the pre-Flood world wasn't very different!) However, comments are not for discussion; please take it to chat if you want to continue this. | |
| Apr 5 at 19:23 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @Matthew, There is more than a little evidence that there was life on Earth before the "days of creation" and that most of the plants and animals were very different from the modern world (e.g. dinosaurs). Genesis 1:2 begins "the earth was without form" and in the KJV the world "was" is not in italics as are most other forms of "to be", which are implied but not written in Hebrew. This indicates that there was a Hebrew word there, and it was "H1961 הָיְתָ֥ה hayah", which means to transform or to become, indicating a change, not an initial state. | |
| Apr 5 at 18:58 | comment | added | Matthew | @RayButterworth, that's utter rubbish. So what if billions of years passed? Nothing is going to happen on a lifeless mass of water that has no dry land, or indeed any light. Even if you insert billions of years in between 1:1 and 1:2, it doesn't fix any of the many, many inconsistencies that Genesis 1 has with the Materialist fairy tale, nor does it address any of the evidences that point to YEC being correct, or indeed that indicate that Earth and the solar system are not billions of years old. | |
| Apr 5 at 18:40 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | Until recently, there was no reason to think that the original creation in Genesis 1:1 didn't occur immediately before the 6 days. We now see an Earth and a Universe that is billions of years old. The word "made" in Exodus 20:8-11 "in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth" is the Hebrew word "H6213 וַיַּעַשׂ `asah" meaning "to complete". It has a different meaning than Genesis 1:1's "create", which is "H1254 בָּרָא bara" which means "to create the essence from nothing". That's where YEC are mistaken; not realizing that billions of years took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 | |
| Apr 4 at 19:51 | comment | added | Matthew | @Mark, to your comment, see christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/15718. | |
| Apr 4 at 18:42 | history | edited | Matthew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 4 at 16:40 | comment | added | user61679 |
This is further evidenced by the fact that this has been by far the prevailing view of Christians throughout history - Could you please support this with sources?
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| Apr 4 at 16:33 | history | edited | Matthew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 4 at 16:24 | history | answered | Matthew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |