Aha! Stop putting millions of years in the book of Genesis. God obviously created the world in six days as the historical account in the book of Genesis states.
The scientists who invented the notion that the world was created during millions of years did this because they have an agenda and that is that they hate God. They want to sin, like they want to eat ice cream during lent.
The scientists who invented the notion that the world was created during millions of years did this because they have an agenda and that is that they hate God. They want to sin, like they want to eat ice cream during lent.
Quote:To Christians: Don't be embarrassed by the Book of Genesis
About 200 years ago ideas about millions of years of earth history were becoming popular with early geologists. That wasn’t going to “work” if Genesis continued to be interpreted as plain historical narrative, with creation in six days and a worldwide flood. A workaround of Genesis was needed.
Theologians first tried inserting millions of years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. That “gap theory” workaround was popular for over a hundred years. Thomas Chalmers popularized it in 1814, and the Scofield Bible of 1909 made it a favorite of conservative Christians for many more years. However, theologians finally recognized its problems. For one thing, there is no mention elsewhere in Scripture of pre-Adamic humans or of a pre-Adamic cataclysm. Nor is the Hebrew construction consistent with any change in time between verse 1 and verse 2.
In this case, the required millions or billions of years are inserted into each of the six days of Genesis 1, where the Hebrew word “yom” is used for day. However, the majority of Hebrew scholars realized that in the Old Testament there are only a few times where “yom” can mean a long period. It never means a long period when connected with numerals in a narrative as in Genesis 1.
Old Testament scholars such as Todd Beall and Steven Boyd have shown that the Hebrew language used in Genesis 1 is historical narrative, not poetry or other figurative language.
All attempts to put millions and billions of years into Genesis assume that the fossils were formed before Adam. That means God was the originator of the disease, violence, and death seen in the fossil record. And so our Creator God would not be good, nor would His creation be very good.
The Book of Genesis is not some knock-off version of the truth. It needs no workarounds. The voices of those that make them sound much too similar to that of the serpent who questioned Eve: “Has God indeed said…” We need to consider the possibility that mainstream scientists don’t know the truth about origins. As discussed elsewhere, their speculations about origins are based on anti-theistic presuppositions. Those presuppositions guide their interpretations of data left over from Creation. When scientists who are Christians replace those presuppositions, they find interpretations of the same data consistent with the plain reading of Genesis.
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/to-...nesis.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
