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Week 1: Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years? Summary
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For the first 18 centuries of church history, most of the Christians believed that God created the
world in six 24 hours days, around 4,000 BC. However, during the Age of the Enlightenment,
around 200 years ago, most people started to accept the theories that the earth and the
universe are at least millions of years old.
The different theories Christian leaders have tried in hope to combine the so-called modern
science with the Bible are, the day-age view, the gap theory, the local flood view, the framework
hypothesis, the theistic evolution, and the progressive creation.
There are still yet a growing number of Christians, or the young-earth creationists, hold to the
traditional view, believing that to be the only view that is truly faithful to the Scripture, and yet
at the same time fits the scientific evidence better than the old-earth evolutionary theory.
The Hebrew word for day used in Genesis 1 (yom) is typically used as a literal 24hrs days, and is
specified when not used that way, also, yom is defined in Genesis 1:4-5 as there was evening
and then there was morning.
The genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 make it clear that the creation week happened only about
6,000 years ago.
Exodus 20:9-11 could be evidence supporting that the yom in Genesis 1 is a day of 24hrs,
otherwise, it would not make sense for God to have the Israelites remembering the Sabbath
days and keeping it as actual days and not other time increments.
Noah’s flood must have been a global catastrophe instead of a local event, or else God wouldn’t
need Noah to bring at least a pair of all animals.
Noah’s Flood would produce the exact kind of complex geological records we see today,
thousands of feet of sediments deposited by water and later hardened into rock and containing
billions of fossils.
Jesus Christ affirmed the authority of Scripture over men’s ideas and traditions, we should too.
According to the old-Earth theory, there are millions of years of animal death before the
creation and fall of man, yet, this belief contradicts with the Bible’s teaching on death and the
full redemptive work of Christ, while making god into a bumbling, cruel creator who uses
disease, natural disasters, and extinctions to mar His creative works that He calls “very good.”
This argument is important, because the authority of the Scripture, the character of God, the
doctrine of death, and the very foundation of the gospel is at stake. If Genesis isn’t true, then
how can one believe the rest of the Bible?
When we consider the possibility that God used evolutionary processes to create over millions
of years, we are faced with the consequence that : the Word of god is no longer authoritative,
and the character of our loving God is questioned.
Thomas Huxley made the point that if we are to believe the New Testament doctrines, we must
believe the historical accounts of Genesis as historical truth.
Believing the god of an old earth destroys the gospel, because the god of an old earth cannot be
the God of the Bible who is able to save us from sin and death.
The battle is not one of young earth vs. old earth, or billions of years vs. six days, or creation vs.
evolution, but the real battle is the authority of the Word of God vs. man’s fallible options.
If we believe in the Bible, we should believe the whole thing, otherwise we are not believers.