Please give me a straight answer: when a Fundamentalist Protestant joins one of the ancient apostolic churches, is he/she required to abjure and denounce young earth creationism? Is young earth creationism a formal, official heresy? If not, why is it that every single member of every single ancient apostolic body attacks it?
>>Orthodoxy and Catholicism are agnostic on this matter. They don’t have any sort of official teaching that is binding on their communicants.
Are you sure? It seems to me that if those churches were truly "agnostic" on this matter that there would be more creationists in those churches. Yet there are almost none, and the media of those churches constantly attack and ridicule young earth creationism. Why would church media be so partisan if the churches are "agnostic" in the matter of evolution and Genesis 1-11?
Since you were so kind as to answer my question, if you don't mind, I would like to ask you another one.
Why are the ancient apostolic churches "agnostic" on the literal truth of Genesis 1-11 when they are for the literal truth of such things as the virgin birth, the resurrection of the dead, the "real presence," the multiplication of loaves and fishes, and even such things as Mary making the sun dance in Portugal in 1917? What is there about the first eleven chapters of Genesis (be honest now) that makes it different from all these other things?
As I am asking for honesty from you, I will be honest myself. I believe the reason for treating Genesis 1-11 differently from the rest of the bible is nothing other than sociological prejudice against the people with whom those chapters are associated--ie, rural American "rednecks." Is there any other reason why Genesis 1-11 should be a parable while everything in the new testament (and in post-NT chrstian history such as the Portuguese sun dance) is literally true?