Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Jesus a Young-Earther?

Todd Wilken said on Issues, Etc. today that Jesus and Paul thought that believing in a six-day creation was very important.

My ears perked up. I wanted to hear the Scripture citations for that!

Then he talked about Jesus referencing the "in the beginning God made them male and female" in his teaching on marriage (e.g., Matthew 19) and Paul's teaching that Christ is the Second Adam (Romans 5, 1 Corinthians 15).

All well and good. It demonstrates that Jesus and Paul took the stories about the origin of humanity seriously. But what does that have to do with a literal 24-hour day creation week? Every time Todd has someone on to talk about creation and evolution the discussion revolves around young-earth creationism vs. theistic evolution. Most (but not all) theistic evolutionists believe that the Genesis stories are myths, and this is what he was really arguing against.

I know Todd has heard about old-earth creationism, but for some reason (that I am not aware of) he doesn't seem to want to engage with it.

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