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This video below starts about 50 seconds after you hit play. It is interesting to note that both Richard Dawkins and Hugh Ross have refused to debate Dr. Jonathan Sarfati. A six day, young earth understanding of Genesis is the only one that comes from the text itself, which is why the rest of Scripture interprets it that way. Long-age views are a modern aberration that comes from imposing outside ideas of uniformitarian "science" upon the text. See how compromising views render the Bible meaningless to a dying world. You'll be encouraged and energized to hear there is no need for compromise and that there are answers. The evidence for Creation and the Bible's account of history is all around us if only we know how to look for it, and Dr. Sarfati will show you how to do just that!
Refuting William Lane Craig and Hugh Ross (Creation and Bible Compromisers)
The idea of millions of years came from the belief that the fossil record was built up over a long time. As soon as people allow for millions of years, they allow for the fossil record to be millions of years old. This creates an insurmountable problem regarding the gospel. The fossil record consists of the death of billions of creatures. In fact, it is a record of death, disease, suffering, cruelty, and brutality. It is a very ugly record. The Bible is adamant though, that death, disease, and suffering came into the world as a result of sin. God instituted death and bloodshed because of sin so man could be redeemed. As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed. The doctrine of original sin, then, is totally undermined. If there were death, disease, and suffering before Adam rebelled-then what did sin do to the world? What does Paul mean in Romans 8 when he says the whole of creation groans in pain because of the Curse? How can all things be restored in the future to no more death and suffering, unless the beginning was also free of death and suffering? The whole message of the gospel falls apart if one allows millions of years for the creation of the world." - The Necessity for Believing in Six Literal Days by Ken Ham, emphases added.. Also hear Six Day Creation & The Eisegesis Problem by Ken Ham (Free MP3) and The Doctrine Of Original Sin (26 Free MP3s) by Jonathan Edwards.
With brilliant clarity, Jonathan Sarfati, author of the best-selling Refuting Evolution (1 and 2) has produced a comprehensive and ringing refutation of the position of progressive creationist Hugh Ross, whose views are causing massive confusion about science and the Bible. This book is one of the most powerful biblical and scientific defenses of a straightforward view of Genesis creation ever written.
Excerpt (emphases added): As far as the biblical record itself is concerned, there is not the slightest indication anywhere in Scripture that the earth endured long ages before the creation of Adam and Eve. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself said: ‘But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female’ (Mark 10:6).
The crystal-clear statement of the Lord in the Ten Commandments completely precludes the ‘day-age’ interpretation of the six days of creation:
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work … For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it (Exodus 20:8–11).
If God’s six workdays were not the same kind of days as the six of man’s work week, then God is not able to say what He means. The language could hardly be more clear and explicit. ...
All Scripture is divinely inspired, but this portion was divinely inscribed! Still further, the record of the six days of creation concludes with the statement by God that everything in His creation was ‘very good’ at the end of the six days (Genesis 1:31). There is no way this could be harmonized with a worldwide fossil graveyard a mile deep all around the earth. The Bible makes it plain, in fact, that death didn’t even enter the world until Adam sinned (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21) and brought God’s curse on the ground (Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:20–22).
Clarification on Comment About Hugh Ross (Free Video)
What are the problems with adding millions of years to the Bible? How does such compromises drive old-earthers such as Hugh Ross into other errors?
The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross, by Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. Astronomy
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Jim Dodson Reviews and Recommends the Puritan Hard Drive
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- Jim Dodson, Reformed Presbyterian Scholar, https://www.covenanter.org/
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