Why The Age of the Earth Matters SO Much

you know, do, do God. created in six days, well, wait a minute, he's the infinite creator god, uh, no, he could have created in a short time, you know, uh, he, he could have created everything in one day. Well, this is what Moses said when he wrote that God created the heaven and

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and everything in them in six days and that this period remains six days and don't be crazy to come up with any comment according to which six days or a day but if you can't understand how this could have been done in six days then give the holy spirit the honor of learning more than you.

It is interesting that in Martin Luther's time there were church fathers who had the opposite problem than today: they said that no god could have done it in six days. He had to do it. do it in a

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shorter time and today they say that no god could have done it in six days, it had to be millions of years and the reason they say millions of years, you think about this when people mention millions of years or pose some of these positions like the gap theory and the day age theory etc., you didn't get millions of years from the Bible. been influenced outside of the Scriptures because that's where you got the millions of years, you don't get it from the Scriptures, so people say, okay, okay, so it's six days, why does it matter?

I mean, why does it matter if the land is there? millions of years old or if it is thousands of years old it has nothing to do with the gospel it is just a secondary question anyway no, it is not a question of authority this is the absolute authority of the word of God would we really say no? Does it matter if you believe in the virgin birth, I mean it's not tied to salvation, does it really matter if you believe Jesus walked on water? that's not tied to salvation, does it really matter if you believe Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead nowhere do you say?

You have to believe that to be saved and you would say yes, but this is the word of God. You have to take God's word as it is written. That's my point. This is the word of God. You see, there are people who say, but look, us. I have all these moral problems in the culture, you know, gay marriage, abortion and pedophilia, gender issues, euthanasia, surely it's

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more important to deal with them anyway, the most important thing is to come out and talk about the gospel. I have had pastors. Tell me, look, who cares if it's six days?

We just need to tell people about Jesus. Where does Jesus' message come from? It comes from this book. If we have generations who have been told that there is no need to believe in this book and they begin to doubt. that and they don't believe many other parts of it or a slippery side of belief throughout the whole book, they're not going to listen to what you say about the gospel and look what happened, there's been an incredible exodus from the church, The church is not impacting the culture like it used to. We know that the church is in big trouble.

I mean, in the Western world, from a human perspective, he's fighting for her life. Now I know that the gates of hell will not prevail against her, but when you look. Looking at it from a human perspective, what a disaster in the church because we have instilled the word of God and particularly in this era of genesis we have renounced biblical authority and that has impacted the younger generations who see that we do not adhere to the word of God. Look, I was once interviewed on a radio show by a Presbyterian minister and he said, "Wait a minute, look, you have to agree that we can have as Christians, there are different denominations, you have Baptists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians, and so on it goes. ".

I mean, there are all kinds of different denominations and there are different theological positions, aren't they there? Well, yes, I mean, in eschatology there is a mill before the mill, a windmill, a treadmill, actually, many different views of eschatology, that's true, different views of the modes of baptism, sprinkling immersion, yes. different views on speaking in tongues, whether it is still a gift or not, yes, different views on the sabbath, etc., I said yes, he said we have different views on genesis, It's the same thing, no it's not, and if you can understand this, I'll get the point and then I want to illustrate it by showing you the rampant compromise in our churches and Christian schools.

Look when you discuss eschatological positions, modes of baptism, speaking in tongues, the Sabbath, obviously, you know that not everyone is right and God goes. to ordain us all someday, but mainly we are looking specifically at the Scriptures, what do the Scriptures teach here? What do the Scriptures teach here? What does it say here? Oh yeah, but it says this here and we're using Scripture to interpret Scripture, but we're arguing primarily from Scripture, but think about this when it comes to genesis and all the different positions on the age theory. Genesis day, the gap theory, adding the millions of years to the Scriptures in some local way, whatever is happening, people say because of evolution. it's saying that because of the big bang because of millions of years we are getting these ideas from the scriptures, going to the scriptures and we are trying to interpret the scriptures in some way to fit the beliefs of the man of the time, that is the difference and that's what happened. and that undermines the authority of the Scriptures, that is why this topic is so important because adding millions of years to add man's ideas to the Bible is a direct attack on the authority of the word of God and that is why we always I have said that. the answers in the ministry of genesis is a ministry of biblical authority in which we do not deal only with the evolution of creation and the age of the

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and the days of creation, but we deal with the authority of the word of God and do we let God speak?

We are giving His word or we are imposing our ideas on the Scriptures, you know, in the 1700s and 1800s, before that time, most of the church fathers and so on believed in six days and a young universe, but what What happened was that there were those particularly uh atheists and deists and 1700s and 1800s who popularized the idea that, oh, the fossil record took millions of years to come before man, they want to explain everything by natural processes, well, what happened was that there were church leaders, they said, oh, we'll take the million years and we'll fit it into the Bible, you know, we'll fit it somewhere before the first verse or we'll put it between verse 1 and verse 2 and from genesis 1 and we will incorporate the gap theory or reinterpret the days. of creation in some way, but I notice something that tries to fit something out of the Bible into the Bible, that's why I have all these different approaches here and then came Darwin, who said not only are you millions of years old, but you look to the animals we notice. they change and then one type of animal changed to another over millions of years and there are many in the church who said oh, we'll take that and say that God used evolution and then Darwin popularized the idea that ape-like creatures became people, oh, we'll take that idea and say that God evolved Adam and Eve, and then what you saw emerge in history in the church where all these different positions, gap theory, day-age theory, theistic evolution , then there were those who said, oh, we can take the big one.

Click and add that to the Bible and you can go and list all the compromised positions from Genesis 1. You'll find different universities, Bible colleges, churches, church leaders, we'll have one of these types of positions, gap theory, age of the day, theistic evolution, day gap. framework hypothesis of the day progressive creation the atom is a metaphor for israel inauguration of the cosmic temple seeing humans from animals with amnesia yes, these are all views that you will find in the church and certain denominations tend to take one view over others, more It depends on who was influential in that denomination in their universities, whoever teaches a particular point of view, but you notice something, each one of those points of view, each one of them has one thing in common, you know what it is, each one of them adds millions of years to the Bible.

They are all man's attempts to somehow fit millions of years into the Bible. Sometimes I go to churches and they say, oh, we have an elder who believes in the gap theory or our pastor believes in theistic evolution, oh, we have people who believe in the age of day. theory and so on tell me what your position is and I say oh the biblical one what do you mean I just take the word of God it is written I don't try to add ideas outside of the scriptures and you know what it is very clear that God created everything in six days, It's very clear that death came after sin, it's very clear that there was a global flood that covered the highest hills under the entire sky if you just read Genesis as it is written, but I think one of the reasons we have so much diversity The different points of view in many of our Christian churches and universities are because I believe that even the majority of our academics do not or will not really understand the science when I debated Bill Nye on this same stage a few years ago, one of the The first thing I did was define the terms science, the word science comes from the Latin century, which means to know, it means knowledge and I said that you can obtain knowledge through experimentation using your five senses and you can repeat your experiments over and over again, that's what we developed technology we call observation or you could call it operational science, but when it comes to knowledge about the past when you weren't there, our origins, that's very different from what's called historical science and I think a big problem we have is that even many of our Christian academics in our universities Christian colleges Bible colleges many of our pastors don't really understand the difference between observational science and historical science you don't go out and see the age of the rocks you have to interpret them based on assumptions about the past, but you go out and see the rocks, there is a big difference between historical science and observational science.

You know, when we did the research on Christian colleges, Bible colleges, and seminaries primarily toward the conservative event and we researched the president's vice president. head of science head of bible or religion at those universities asks one of the questions: would you consider yourself a Young Earth Christian or an Old Earth Christian? Of course, most of them were from the Old Earth, but when we really highlighted the religion departments or the Bible departments. Compared to the science departments at these Christian institutions, note that the 78 religion department was from ancient Earth, while the 35 science department, in other words, is much more likely to find those who believe in millions of years in the religion department or in the Bible instead of the science department.

I think one of the main reasons for this is that many in science departments recognize this difference between observational science and historical science, which is known when you use a dating method like uranium, lead or potassium and argon, so it's based on all kinds of assumptions and stuff. Assumptions are fallible assumptions, so you can't prove the age of things using those dating methods. In fact, there are many things in science that contradict the idea of ​​millions of years, but the conclusion is the only way to know the age of the Earth. It is if someone was there who knows everything who told us well there we have the word of God who knows everything he has always been there who told us at the beginning and then he created everything in six days and we have all that history that he has given us we must take him at his word.

I want to show you what has been happening in our Christian schools and institutions and I will use two examples in particular because they are representative of the state of our Christian institutions in our Western world. done all over the world and this is a pandemic we should be really worried about. I know we are in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, as people call it, there is a pandemic in our churches that we have been ignoring and that we need. to deal with this pandemic there is an organization called biologists now biologists uh it was created with funds from the john templeton foundation and was created specifically to get the church to believe in the evolution of millions of years, its mission biologists invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith as we present an evolutionary understanding of God's creation and then list what they believe, we believe that the diversity and interrelatedness of all life on earth is best explained by the process of evolution ordered by God with common elements.

Descent, therefore, evolution is not in opposition to God, but a means by which God providentially achieves his purposes. Now biologists have actually infiltrated many of our Christian colleges, seminaries, and Bible colleges, even many of our conservative ones, and they will do so again.in a very subtle way, you know, like a science seminar series, but really it's about trying to get their tentacles in so that they compromise the word of God. I want to give you a specific example. Many of you are probably familiar with Wheaton College. In fact, if you go to their website Wheaton College in Illinois, they say it's the best Christian liberal arts college in the US.

It's actually the best Christian liberal arts college, while Wheaton College was actually a starter on the biologists website that published a new book on origins theories and there are several Wheaton College professors who are responsible for this. The biologists site said this. A biologist, we are delighted to announce the release of an important new book that encompasses the scientific theories of origins, cosmology, geology, and biology from a Christian perspective. This book, a textbook, was written by five Wheaton College professors as a result of a three-year grant they received from Biologias in 2013. That was a seven-figure amount they received to produce this new textbook and this is the textbook they want.

To see this textbook used in Christian colleges across the country, well, I'm just going to give you some quotes from this textbook that we've read throughout the textbook. None of this is out of context. A biblical first approach devalues ​​the meaning of creation revelation a first approach to the bible and answers in genesis we are not ashamed to say that we take a first approach to the bible only god knows everything this is his word all scriptures are inspired by god this is where We start and you see the reason they make that statement because they say you can't just take genesis as it is written, you have to listen to what men say about millions of years in evolution and then reinterpret it, for example another quote about The age of the earth, now understood to be 4.55 billion years, is actually not so much a theory as a measurement; in other words, it is a fact that the universe is billions of years old, you didn't understand it or the Earth is billions years old, I should say you don't understand it.

Get that from the Scriptures, that is man's fallible interpretation of the past, it comes from man's religion of naturalism, in fact the Bible makes it clear that if you believe in millions of years, you believe in those fossil layers like the wheat and university professors here believe they were deposited for millions. years before man, then you have death and diseases like cancer found in the fossil record and thorns found in the fossil record before man, the Bible makes it clear that man's sin caused death and disease and the thorns came after the curse. If we don't add those two things together, we would say that most of your fossil records are records of the flood that occurs in your textbooks, although some Christians have argued that it completely interrupted some kind of original perfection of creation, of course, that is what we teach in the answers.

In Genesis we do not apologize for that, that is what the Bible teaches, everything was very good when God created it, but now the entire creation groans. Romans 8 says there is no evidence from either the Bible or creation, making that a foregone conclusion on the part of one man. sin of the world death by sin death came upon all men that deals with the human race in particular but romans 8 says that all creation groans because of sin and you see the problem is when you believe in millions of years that you have you have I have to tell them that the death and struggle that we see today has been going on for millions of years, so God used that because you believe in millions of years, so you can't have one fall that changes everything and that's an incredible big stumble. block for people today young people then god is responsible for death disease cancer god is responsible then for the coronavirus everything is his fault the bible says that no man is responsible because we sin against a holy god the world we are seeing today is not the world since god caused it to have fallen from original perfection due to our sin, the bible makes it very clear, they go on and say that here it is enough to say that there is a lack of geological data to support a flood of massive proportions, furthermore, no archaeological evidence supports such a flood there are billions of dead things buried in layers of rock all over the earth why don't they want to believe in a global flood because if you believe that most of your fossil record comes from a global flood then you have destroyed their supposed evidence for millions of years and they believe in millions of years so they can't have a global flood so they reject a global flood which means you are rejecting the word of God in genesis well what about this one?

Humans are hominoid primates, apes, homonoid primates. They are apes, they actually state this in their textbooks Humans are apes in the hominid tribe with cognitive abilities that exceed those of all other primates, evidenced by our ever-advancing technology, cultural innovations, and adaptive adaptability to different environments. , you're just an ape, just a little bit smarter than apes, I mean, go to the local zoo and you'll see that you're pretty similar, I mean, they're behind a big fence, you can't go in there because they'll attack. you and they could kill you and they can't talk to you and they don't use tools to invent tools and they don't make wonderful paintings and they don't have a language but you are very similar to them no, the bible says that we are all descendants of adam and eve we are all one race we are made in the image of god no animal is we are different from animals we are not basically apes apes are animals humans are humans, the bible makes it very clear, so there are people like william lane craig, who is said to be a great Apologist for our times, research the philosophy of the prophet at the Talbot school of theology, but you know there is something sad with these people, listen to what he says.

How old is the world? The best current estimates are around 13.7 billion years, approximately. This is good. You see, this is a position I can take because there are people who sit here and say no, it's six and a half thousand years old. That's not a terrible position. I don't think it's plausible. The arguments I give are in line with conventional science. I do not oppose conventional science and present these arguments. Rather, I go with the current of the contemporary. cosmology and astrophysics uh supports in other words, I go with what he says science, he refers to the historical science of man, man's fallible beliefs based on naturalism, I go with what man says, I don't go with what he says the Bible, that is undermining the authority of the Scriptures. that has permeated our universities permeated our churches and we wonder why we have a problem with losing the next generations in our churches people who need to repent before a holy god as people of God those universities Christian universities Bible universities seminaries those professors who compromise life of god word in genesis those pastors christian leaders need to kneel and repent before a holy god because we have dared to take the pagan religion of man and reinterpret the word of god and then we say oh what happened to the church oh what happened to the younger generations, you know, this is your perspective, another one we have here and this one is from dr. john collins uh from uh saint louis and when we look at this here uh dr collins is actually a professor of old testament at the covenant theology seminary in saint louis missouri it's known as the pca denominational seminary and he's one of the translators of it is B.

In fact, let's see what he says about the flood, whether local or global. What is his perspective on the flood? Do you think it was global or local? Well, I think from the perspective of the words in Genesis, from six to nine, you can't say the ex, I mean, on first reading it seems like it was global, doesn't it? Because it is all the land and the high mountains are covered, etc., oh. You know you can't say it, but at first reading it appears to be global, of course it is global and the waters prevailed so powerfully over the earth that all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered, the waters prevailed over the mountains covering 15 cubits. .

Deep down, you know why he doesn't want to believe what he says because he admits that if you take it as written, it seems to say global flood because he believes in millions of years accommodating the pagan religion of our time and you know, here's another one. example from the same dr. collins uh and and when I talk about how many people I had the flood, tell me how many people spied on the flood according to the Bible, it was what eight, well, let's see what dr. collins, it's okay. And do you think the flood was universal or in terms of wiping out all of humanity or not?

I would like to think so. There are places where you become a little insecure. How long ago did it take place? becomes a question and I don't think there is any answer to that, but, you do find clues in some ancient expositors of the possibility that others, besides Noah and his family, survived the flood, Joseph, for example, speaks . about that, I can't believe this, I mean his books are used in seminaries in different parts of the nation, influencing these students, pastors and others, and he would dare point out Josephus to nullify the word of God when Josephus was a historian, but Josephus works.

They are not the inspired word of God now in Josephus says oh there is a great mountain in Armenia Kobarus about which it is reported that many of those who fled at the time of the flood were saved wait a minute what does the Bible say? It says all humanity apart from those who were in the ark died during the flood and in fact in Genesis 9 we read that the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem Ham and Jabeth and these three were the sons of Noah of these, the people of all the world.

They were dispersed and then in one of Peter 3 we read why they formally did not obey when God's patient weighed in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared in which a few or eight people were safely bought through the water. bible makes it clear only eight people survived the flood and not only that all the people in the world today can be traced back to the three sons of noah, all of humanity except eight died during the flood so what the hell is the Dr. John Collins? There are hours of video. on the internet you can see it, we should kneel and cry before a holy god because these people I am not attacking their Christianity, I am not saying they are not Christians, I am not saying that at all, but they are undermining the authority of the word of God and in fact They have had an incredible negative impact on the church and generations to come.

They have a lot to answer for because they need to stand before God and tell him what he did not say in his word. what they need to do well one day they will do it you know I like what martin luther said the days of creation were ordinary days in length we must understand that these days were real days contrary to the opinions of the holy fathers as long as we observe that the opinions of parents do not agree with the Scriptures, we bear them with reverence and recognize them as our elders, yet we do not depart from the authority of the Scriptures for their sake, that is what we should say, people our churches must face to these academics in our Christian life. universities and bible colleges should stop funding them should stop sending students to these colleges until they take a stand on the word of god in genesis like they should now I said I would spend most of my time on the topic of authority I just said mention number two.

I said that it is a matter of indirect salvation. In fact, I've already covered it. We did it in the book. We already did it. By the way, we looked at the research on why young people leave the church and very few return. And many of them had to do it. to do with the fact that they were led to believe that the book of Genesis really couldn't be trusted and that for them science had undermined the authority of the word of God and they were not taught apologetics, they were not taught defend your faith. In other words, that commitment was an incredible obstacle for them and took them down a slippery slide from doubt to unbelief throughout the Scriptures and today you can see church attendance from the oldest generation, 56, to the millennials of 18 and generation z, less than the one we have.

We have a major problem in our church and the book is ready to return well when we look at the millennials left in our churches, do you realize that only 40 percent say they are born again but 65 believe if you are a good person? You will go to heaven and one of the things, when you research and read the book, you will find that one of the big problems that affected them was the problem of millions of years and then when we look at everything that is a topic of the gospel, you know why It's a gospel theme, it's a gospel theme for this reason because I've already gone through the whole issue of death, bloodshed, sickness and illness.suffering, when you believe in millions of years, you are saying that God is responsible for death from diseases like cancer. because the coronavirus causes deaths and so on, God is responsible, but the Bible says no, our sin brought death to the world and diseases and suffering, it is our sin that is responsible and the people who believe in millions of years and that is the majority of our Christians. leaders unfortunately it is an attack on the character of god jesus cried at the tomb of lazarus jesus had compassion on people who are sick and healed them one day there will be new heavens and a new earth there will be no more death and all those tears will be wiped away no more illnesses no suffering, a restoration as it was originally, but if you believe in millions of years you will go to heaven and have all this death and suffering and all these tears and cancer because that is how God made it and he calls everyone.

Well, how dare these people attack the character of God like this? And if there were millions of years of bloodshed before Adam sinned, what the hell does bloodshed have to do with the bloodless remission of sins? remission of sins hey, what do you believe about the days of creation? It is a question of authority. It is a question of indirect salvation. It is a question of the gospel. Before I end here, I just want to mention that if you want this in a lot more detail, it's in the book Six Days and I have a lot of those quotes from people getting engaged in there in the book Six Days I have a lot of other quotes.

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