Hi Faith,
Faith writes:
No, scripture doesn't describe what the Flood did to the earth,
That is correct. The Bible does not support the catastrophic flood preached by YEC.
Faith writes:
it's entirely an inference that it would have left evidence on such a prodigious scale.
Actually it is based upon assumptions that are necessary to make the Biblical flood produce a young earth.
Faith writes:
Creationist arguments that supposedly derive from the Bible don't have to have direct scriptural evidence,
Every person that you are argueing with that believes in the BBT is a creationist. According to Stephen Hawking the universe has not always existed. Since it now exist that would require the universe to have a begining to exist. Creation = beginning to exist.
If the Scripture does not support the argument it is not Biblical.
Faith writes:
they just have to fit the general revelation and above all they must not CONTRADICT the Biblical revelation
Are you saying, a person can add anything they want to the Bible as long as it don't CONTRADICT the Biblical revelation, it is OK.
Faith writes:
If you believe the Biblical witness you have to reject any explanation that requires death to have occurred before the Fall, which eliminates evolution right there. Death is the consequence of sin and the Flood was God's judgment on the world for sin, saving only a very few out of the disaster. Evolution is the only other explanation for the dead things in the strata, and it contradicts the Biblical witness.
I do believe the Biblical witness but you don't.
Death has reigned from the day the man formed from the dust of the ground ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Faith writes:
Explanations in terms of an old earth or huge periods of time contradict it.
Then why don't you start a thread in Bible Study and explain to me where the Bible gives the age of the Universe and the Earth. You could also explain how there could not be death billions of years ago.
Assumptions will not count, only what the text says.
Let me stop before I derail the topic.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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