Dr Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Seminary, Kentucky, supports the historicity of Genesis.
Dr Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Seminary, Kentucky, supports the historicity of Genesis.
From the article:
“Conclusion
All those mentioned above are ‘evangelical’ scholars; those who believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. To them we might add the testimony of non-evangelical experts in Hebrew, such as Oxford University’s Professor James Barr, who clearly stated that the intention of the author(s) of Genesis 1–11 meant what was written to be understood as history (six literal days of creation, global Flood of Noah, a chronology of the world from the beginning). Other professors at leading secular universities agree with Professor Barr.
It is clear how Genesis is meant to be understood; as history (a record of events that really happened in time and space). It is also clear that it has been understood that way almost universally until modern times.”
I believe you would have to include Jesus himself in that list as he pointed to the first two chapters of Genesis as authority for his teaching on marriage.
Like to know the Christian leaders who don’t.
Insisting that the world was created in 6 days shows an unwillingness to think for oneself.
The question is, do we have faith that God told the truth in His Word, or do we call Him a liar and believe fallen men and their interpretation of the evidence?
There’s really zero doubt about what God says in His Word about creation. “Evening and the morning” is only used with “yom” when it means a solar day. Difficult for long ages to have an evening and a morning. And when “yom” is used with ordinal numbers it is always referring to a solar day. In this case, God used both. Yet people refuse to believe. .
And it’s not as if this teaching only appears in Genesis. It’s literally throughout Scripture, including several references in Revelation:
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Rev 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Faith is the key, and calling God a liar is not being faithful:
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
1Ti 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Ti 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.
Evolution, when the onion is peeled all the way back, is just repackaged paganism, a belief in spontaneous generation that Pasteur refuted a long time ago with the Law of Biogenesis, that life begets life. Life is simply too complex to have sprung at random from lifeless chemicals. I know they’ve tried to do so for quite a while now, and haven’t even come close to producing a single protein from random processes, much less the stupendous complexity of the most “simple” single-celled organism.
If one accepts relativity, which to deny would require the denial of the atom bomb, then it is possible to view ~15 billion years as 6000.
However, in all that I understand about geology, math and physics, the longer time frame is more consistent with observation.
Yet Genesis is a myth.
And yet I don't believe that any of the men he menitoned in the article came from the scientific community.