Im a little disappointed that the flood of Noah wasn't included in this discussion. If the flood of Noah happened, it explains practically all the things we see such as climates, mass extinction, radical clinate change, oil and coal deposits, the grand canyon
If you're interested, you should study up on the Grand Canyon :-) amazing how all those layers each represent different eras, different periods throughout history, with different ecosystems, fossil remains, etc., all kinds of stuff indicating the Grand Canyon is most definitely millions of years old.
@@travisbicklepopsicle when the Grand Canyon is actually researched according to the features offered by it, with the Christian/Biblical worldview, one can see that it is a very powerful presentation supporting the Biblical world wide flood of Noah's experience. The Grand Canyon does not bear out the evolutionary theory.
As I stated in a lengthier comment, God will offer His mercy to every repentant sinner regardless of their previous views on science, politics or social issues. For this I am thankful! That said, I find among the most significant theological arguments against evolution (theistic or otherwise) and the required old earth that goes with it, is that of "death by sin" (Apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Rome). If there are millions of years of death before Adam, then death isn't actually the result of sin. If that's the case, there is no purpose for the cross of Jesus Christ. On the other hand, if death is the result of sin as the Bible says, and the fossil record is a testimony to the devastating effects of sin, then Jesus' death has tremendous meaning and implications.
@@RenaissanceEarCandy your statement demonstrates a lack of understanding for the term "Theology" and what constitutes a theological argument. The entire purpose of the evolutionary hypothesis is an attempt to explain the existence of the created order without the involvement of the Creator.
@@arthurvanderhoff2413 Well no kidding, the fact is that there are mountains of proofs proving evolution, but nothing that proves a "god" did anything.
Even the child molesters, pedophiles, mass murderers, and genocide causing war criminals? WTF kind of heaven you running here? You can do horrendous acts against humanity but still receive salvation in a last second death-bed confession? Sounds like bullshit to me.
@@arthurvanderhoff2413 the entire purpose of evolutionary theory is to explain the biodiversity of life on Earth. It's a scientific theory. It has nothing to do with any gods.
8:12 God did say let there be light on the very first day before the sun was made. It doesn't have to take light years for the sun's rays to reach the planet when God could command light.
I agree this is very interesting to me as well. Light existed before our sun existed. So we'd have light, and non-light or (darkness). If we accept this light existed at a specific point of origin, it could be that all matter derives from this light. We do know that light has no mass as it is only photons, but it is affected by gravity and other influences. Perhaps that source light did have some form of mass, or became matter. Like, what was the causation for light? Was this first light, as Big Bang theory suggests, an infinitely dense ball of matter that was so indescribably compact that it generated its own light/heat/energy until it exploded into what is now our expanding universe?
Right and it doesn't take a sun to be the source of light either. Let there be light and there was light. Atheists just cannot grasp the meaning of omnipotence and neither can some self-proclaimed "Christians." To be Christian means to be elect of God and regenerated by the Holy Ghost. Christians are spared the eternal wrath of God which all mankind deserves for disobeying and dishonoring God. Christianity is not a state that can be earned or bought or chosen, it is an unearned pardon from God, not a measure of merit.
***God said nothing, whoever wrote it said that God said so, but God speak in it´s own language, we do not know if the writer understood God´s language.***
@@adelinomorte7421 We only know about Alexander the Great because somebody said so - in writing. Are you making a personal statement of faith, or are you repeating what someone else said?
Remember....in Revelation 21 it states 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine [ a]in it, for the [ b]glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. The Lamb is the Word Jesus referenced in John 1:1-5 and truly is the light of the world.
As someone who holds to Creation science and a young earth viewpoint, I can appreciate the perspective shared here. While the Bible does reveal many scientific facts centuries prior to their "discovery" by modern scientists (the water cycle is one of many examples of this), it is an excellent observation that the Bible is NOT primarily a science text. There are certainly many poetic descriptions as well as spiritual views on reality that would seem scientifically impossible. Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research are both organizations which have bona fide scientists (astronomers, geologists and biologists) who have done first person research that presents a differing and (to the fair-minded) legitimate interpretation of the data and evidence available for our observation. No geologist digs up a rock with a little tag that says, "Hi, I'm 4 billion years old" or, "Hi, I'm 7 thousand years old". Scientific data requires interpretation and the worldview and presuppositions of the scientists involved in the data collection will influence their interpretation of that data. That said, God definitely accepts the repentance of people from every background with any given set of political, scientific and social beliefs. No one has to have it all figured out when they come to Him for mercy and salvation. I am deeply grateful for that truth.
Great point to prove.... the book of Bible is not the science book so that it may analyse every science perspective on scientific sequence so that the mankind may easily understand.
None of us have to figure it all out and undo our indoctrination in order to get mercy and salvation. That is certainly not the point to whether of young or old earth. The reason its so important is that if Genesis is not true, then neither is the New Testament. That is why Atheists attack Genesis. Theistic Evolutionists help to kick out the foundation. Many people fall later on because when things get tough they do not have a SURE foundation in the word of God.
Dr. Bernard is excellent at what he does and that is spreading the Gospel and explaining the oneness of God. As far as science, he is stating his opinion, in which I respectfully disagree. There are a lot of scientific reasons why the earth cannot be billions of years old. One being the sun does not have nor ever had the energy or gas to burn that long. The Bible is the infallible word of God. Whether we understand all of it or not has no effect on it being true. His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts.
1. The bible reveals no scientific facts whatsoever. 2. If all the meteors that we see craters for now, struck the planet 6,000 years ago, there would be no life on this planet- period. (just so that you know, 2 of these strikes that we know of were far bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.) Also, the reason why our planet is on a 23.5 degree tilt is that it was struck by a Mars size planet that was vapourized. The moon is a result of that collision that happened BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. 3. We have trees older than 6,000 years. 4. AIG "scientists" have to sign a document stating that they will uphold the tenet of the scripture, NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS. 5. Rocks have been dated using radiometric means since 1947, can't help it if you are too stupid to google. 6. Which god accepts the repentance of people? As far as gods go, your guy wasn't around when deities like Brahma were creating the universe and such. Your god taking credit for another god's work? 7. Your "merciful" god apparently wiped out the planet in the most cruel and idiotic manner possible. Thank goodness none of the civilizations at the time got the flood memo, they kept right on existing like nothing ever happened.
The Bible was not only written such that man could understand it in the plain sense in which its various genres were written, but it's also written from an earth-centric/human-centric perspective. We're advised that God's thoughts are higher than ours and that His ways are past finding out. We need not view the time statements in Genesis as supposedly being from God's perspective. The Bible clearly drives at it being given from an earth-centric/human-centric perspective when illustrating that the 6 days of Creation are the foundational basis for our 6-day work week with a Sabbath every 7 days. That's but one example. Others include "morning and evening," etc.
Amen. Theistic Evolution is a natural approach to a miraculous event. Yet evolution fails to work out naturally. Millions of years is mathmatically impossible. We'd be standing on top of each other.
@@banclaster8086 well, apparently evolution absolutely does work out naturally, since it's the core principle in biology and all the life sciences, and evolutionary biology has, and does, lead to advancements in many areas that affect all of our lives, from agriculture to medicine and much more, so.. If evolution isn't fact, we wouldn't have an entire *scientific theory* built around it, right?
@@banclaster8086 ***I accept that "Millions of years is mathmatically impossible" but only for you and others like you, not for God or for those who understands what God is all about. you also said that evolution fails to work naturally, but God has no limits.***
The reason you can find shells and sea creature fossils in Texas and other not normal places is from the great flood, which would also be how fossil fuel, diamonds, etc was formed so quickly, from the immense pressure and crushing from the flood waters.
@@banclaster8086 the point is that diamonds, oil, etc. haven’t needed millions of years to form, but could have formed quickly in a single cataclysmic event where great pressure was exerted on organic matter to form oil and on coal to make diamonds. Ipso facto mumbo columbo, the flood.
@@jmluc90 so...I'm not in disagreement. My point is Dr B didn't mention the flood in this vid. He doesn't understand that an ocean creature that dies on its own is unlikely to become a fossil because it gets eaten or is not subject to cataclysmic pressure.
Diamonds are not formed from compressed organic (once living) carbon - they are formed at deeper depths and sometimes brought up as a result of tectonic activity. So it's a fallacy when YEC start talking about radiocarbon dating diamonds - they were never alive, so the method is invalid right from the start, anything found is only background radiation/contamination. YEC arguments like this only serve to show they are not scientists.
Some Jews believe Adam and Eve ate the fruit only one hour after God's warning of the consequences. You should notice it wasn't 'if' they ate the fruit...... It was WHEN!.... True 'free will' can only be created through disobedience. Doing something/anything different than God's will.... But there's those nasty consequences........So, can you guess what the effect of the 'fruit' of "the knowledge of good and evil" actually IS?.... You guessed it...................... SIN!!!!!
While that particular question is not definitely answerable out of the Biblical text, it seems unlikely that they were there for billions of years. The better question is the one of sin, and "death by sin" as Paul says. To me, the best theological argument for a young earth is that sin is the cause of death and the reason God was in Christ and shed His own blood to free us from sin and death. If one accepts millions of years of evolution prior to the sin of Adam, then the purpose of the cross is void, because death wouldn't be the result of sin after all.
@@Obedient-Faith Thanks for responding..... Your first question... " what if you use your free will to obey God?".... Yes, that's the whole point of the entire Bible.... obey God's will...... "Why would freewill only exist in disobedience?"..... Adam and Eve were only capable of doing and thinking God's will. They had no concept of sin, only obedience. They thought just like God. They were like robots with no individual personality. Like clones of God in flesh. It seems God wanted real love, not an imitation or reflection. Adam and Eve's love would be like sending yourself flowers or candy on Valentine's day. It would have no meaning. Nothing of God happens by accident. It was a set-up! God didn't say IF, he said WHEN you eat.......... If God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit (of knowledge) he could've prevented it in any number of ways. But God needed to create humans who could think for themselves and freely choose to love him. God even allowed the 'serpent' as a catalyst to complete the process. Adam and Eve chose to do exactly what God needed them to do. Now mankind could become true individuals free to choose. But anything outside of God's will is fatal. Our little bit of free will comes at a great cost to everyone, including God himself as he came to save us from the effects of the 'fruit'.... of.... "the knowledge of good and evil"............ sin......... Regardless, God seems to think it's worth it all........... Genesis1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good"........ (the word 'good' is 'tov' in Hebrew... meaning 'functional' and/or 'In harmony with God'). ....."What if we want to do what He wants us to do?........ That's the whole point........................ we can freely choose to do what he wants us to do.......... or not...... Disobedience was once the only pathway into free will....... Now, yet still bound by the effects of sin and death, our free will allows us to choose the pathway of everlasting life...... Jesus was born sinless simply because he was conceived directly from God's spirit rather than another sinful human. His human spirit was 100% obedient to God. Even unto a gruesome death. When we willingly obey Jesus as Jesus obeys his father/The Father....... we are reversing Adam and Eve's choice of individuality and death, into a better choice of both individuality and life. Adam and Eve did what God needed them to do. Now we try do what God needs us to do by accepting and living the commandments of Jesus.
Q: "how long were Adam and Eve in the garden before they sinned" A: I used to wonder if there could have been some huge time period before sin, undefined, but the Bible declares plainly, "Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died." Pre-fall years plus post-fall years = 930. Only by imagining that he was not actually "living" before his sin, during some imagined unknown number of pre-sin years, can one think we don't really know how long he lived. I don't go around such clear statements in Scripture.
My UGST thesis addresses this issue. As apostolics, we should be asking, how did the apostles understand Genesis? It is unfortunate that this discussion does not utilize an apostolic hermeneutic. -Mitchell McQuinn
I don't think the Apostles believed in billions of years. I believe they understood when Moses said 6 days he meant 6 literal days; that the words "and it was so" in Gen 1 was the same speed as "and there was light". UGST would be better named DKBST. Hope your the exception.
Not really. In early church writings like the Epistles Of Barnabas from the first century, Barnabas writes at some point that he believes that the six days thing was simply symbolism and has a hidden message of a longer period of time
How the early church viewed Genesis is an extremely important point. Paul speaks of Adam in multiple letters. Peter refers to Abraham and Sarah; he also mentions Noah and his family ("8 persons"). Stephen in Acts 7, starts with Abraham and goes through Joseph and the early generations of Israelites in verse 17. These are 3 examples of people who viewed Genesis as an accurate historical account. Jesus himself mentioned Adam, Eve, Abel, Noah, Abraham and Lot as well as other Genesis characters. This is not a comprehensive list of Genesis characters in the New Testament. The point is that an Apostolic hermeneutic definitely views Genesis as literal history. The writer of Hebrews begins the narrative of the heroes of faith with creation "through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God". There is no indication that the Book of Acts church belived in "millions of years". Jesus taught clearly that God made human beings, "male and female" and did so "from the beginning" which makes perfect sense if the earth were only a few days old at that point and no sense if there were millions of years of death and suffering before Adam and Eve.
@@JAXMAXYT I don't have a god, I am just pointing out the fallacies of all religions. If you believe that a useless god created the universe, then I would argue that Brahma was around 1500 years before the first Jew showed up in the desert. And if any "god" has a claim to creating the universe, that one sure does. Moreover, beyond scripture, there is zero proof of a Jesus as described in the dogma, (and I do know that the Josephus account was a forgery, so look this stuff up first before you say something dumb).
I’m still laughing over the lovely earth rotation instead of the sunrise/sunset! But this is one of the best explanations on the possible timelines of creation I’ve watched. Are these sorts of debates important? A few years ago I’d have said no, but there are too many unsaved people out there for whom such issues are a barrier to their accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. As Christians we have a responsibility to be able to at least shed some light on such thorny issues. Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to share these thoughts, I myself am in the not-so-young earth camp!
The Jews appear anciently to have divided the day/night (from sunset to sunrise) into three watches. These three special hours for prayer-morning, noon, and night. Psalms 55:17 (KJV) Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. Daniel 6:10 (KJV) Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. With that being said; Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days. We also know that the scriptures say: Psalms 90:4 (KJV) For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. 2 Peter 3:8 (KJV) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Word Yôm that’s used in the Old Testament specifically in Genesis Chapter 1 means Hot. But could be referring to the distinction of heat from the sun in what we would consider day time and no heat when the moon is out and what we would consider night time. The word also can mean so much more with seasons, years, dispensation of time, etc.. So it’s hard to give a clear answer of what a day meant to The Lord that created the heavens and the earth. We know that ultimately God is All Powerful and I think we can all agree that God could have and has the ability to create the heavens and earth and all that is in them in an instant. Just know that our understanding of and interpretation of these scriptures isn’t going to effect our Salvation. We shouldn’t allow this to cause division or take up to much of our time. God is in control and it’s time for God’s Church to stay United through His Love and by His Holy Spirit.
@@jasonb9198 the translation can the other, yes but it's not. So ask a Hebrew and see how they translate it or did God have his way in the translation & it means 6 days of 24 hours each? IMO the translation is as God meant for it to be. 6 days of 24 hours
@@Post-Trib “No one can claim infallibility of the Scriptures when applying to it enough elasticity in an attempt to refute its message. One cannot serve God and mammon. Maybe God is trying to say something when He took 144 hours to make the finished and inhabitable earth and its contents when He could have done so in 144 seconds. Time before time or no time. How much more rewarding it is to live by faith in the belief that God with His own finger wrote on tablets of stone SIX DAYS. “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (I Timothy 6:20) Sidney J. Jansma, Sr., SIX DAYS, THEISTIC EVOLUTION: Bad Science and BAD THEOLOGY [emphasis added], Copyright 1985
Today's world population points to a very young creation. There are nearly 8 billion people on Earth today, while there were only about 250 million people in 1 A.D..
@@KevinDay God is also Omniscient and Omnipotent. He is beyond our understanding. That is, He is in no way hindered as we humans are. He loves you and me.
Thank you so much in the name of Jesus! This has put my mind to rest after such a long period of contention even causing arguments and putting my faith to test!
To claim that the Word of God is wrong,, that the earth created itself over billions of imaginary years and rejecting the global flood of Noah's Day is blasphemy. I believe God and not atheists.
@@danminer5343 it's scientific data and evidence that demonstrates there was no Global flood and Earth is billions of years old. Sure, some are atheists, but many are Christians or followers of some other belief system. Most Christians in the world don't take Genesis so literally because it conflicts with observed, demonstrable reality.
This interview is misguiding people away from the Biblical account and thereby likely detouring people from other Biblical doctrines based on and connected to, the Biblical standard of Gods' Creation which basically is 6,000 years.
@@danminer5343 'I believe God and not atheists' What about scientists? Do you accept scientific data and evidence? The majority of the world's Christians do not take the global flood story literally. Not that that in and of itself necessarily means anything, but they don't take it literally because they know it was not meant to be taken literally, and/or they also know there is no scientific data or evidence supporting a global flood. All relevant data and evidence from geology demonstrates no Global flood.
@@danminer5343 And you have a lot of scientific research that refutes the bald-face speculation that is called "the theory of evolution" which is not a scientific theory at all.
If the Bible and science conflict, why do we change our perpective on the unchanging Bible and not the every changing science?? Does science rank higher than the Bible??
He says: “The Bible speaks in language that people understand …and the Bible speaks from the point of view of human experience.” BUT then says the Genesis account from “Gods prospective is 24 hr”. This is a bad argument.
Interesting, my pastor gave just that sermon this morning on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which represents the reign of Christ during the 1,000 year millennium! I'll share it here with you when it's posted!
Scientists are not hostile to the Bible story of creation, they just recognize it as fable. -- Saying that everything the Bible teaches is true is false. Later on he qualifies this as theological truth, I can abide by that as 'theological truth' has no relationship to physical reality so it can be whatever floats your boat, or Ark as the case may be. A positive here is his saying that the Bible is not going to relate scientific facts. But will he abandon that when we get to the age of the Earth? He then says "God created the universe and humans" but fails to show us why we should take that as physical truth rather than theological truth. No criterion has been put forth to distinguish the two. Oooh, when talking about the genealogy of Matthew leaving out generations he admits that the text was manipulated to make untrue things seem to be true! He admits that the Bible is spun like a modern political contest! He presents the "Earth created old" scenario, then starts explaining the silly aspects of that concept. His understanding of geologic forces is rather shallow, but he applies the concepts correctly. So he is actually debunking the YEC concept here. Ah, he is pulling out the time dilation excuse for six God days for the 4.5 billion years, but that ignores that the Bible explicitly states diurnal cycles. Eh, he presents the erroneous but common version of the Big Bang, the one that ignores QM invalidating the premises needed to get to the singularity. Will we never be able to purge that "lies to children" presentation of the theory? I do get tired of explaining that the necessary conditions for the theory to be valid fail as you get close to the nominal singularity, and we therefore know absolutely nothing about whether there was an actual start point. Also there was no explosion as most people conceive of that word, space itself expands, not some lump of matter expanding into an existing space. There was not light as Dr Bernard describes it until ~380,000 years after the expansion begins. He really needs to brush up on the theory, he is repeating some rather wrong ideas about it.
I partially agree, trying to prove the age of the universe using the Bible is probably not a good way to approach this subject. It is even more complicated by the fact that the Septuagint and the Masoretic text do not agree on this topic. The issue here is, no matter what your interpretation, you cannot interpret this subject in such a way as to have death occurring before the fall of Adam and Eve.
Oh, there was plenty of death before Adam and Eve, but not to humanity. Only to the animals that were created in the FIRST creation. The account in Genesis is the SECOND creation, the re-creation...see what scripture has to say about it here: th-cam.com/video/_0Z0e3h-Kl4/w-d-xo.html
Watch: Evolution's Achilles' Heels & Is Genesis History? Also, we live in a spiral galaxy. If the earth was billions of years old, the pictures of the milky way would look unraveled or the arms would be “wound up.” Technically according to astronomy, and other issues outlined in Is Genesis History, the earth is 6,000-15,000 years old. I love Bro. Bernard's teachings, but it's obvious that this subject isn't one of his strong points. You should delete this video or possibly update it after more research. I'm not comfortable recommending this TH-cam channel to people I'm discipling now. It's simply erroneous to agree at all with the big bang and evolution. The very foundations of these theories are flawed and impossible to prove. Christian scientists who see the Bible as absolute truth would agree.
I agree. Brother Bernard is good at what he does. Explaining the oneness of God and spreading the Gospel. As far as his opinion on the Earth's age, I respectfully disagree. The sun does not, nor ever had enough gas or energy to burn for billions of years.
FFS, before making such idiotic pronouncements, do creationists ever google this stuff up? I mean we have the whole knowledge of this planet sitting at your fingertips, and you say mind blowingly stupid stuff like "according to astronomy, the Earth is 6-15 thousand years old? No it isn't, and galaxies don't fly apart, (gravitational attraction, google it up) in fact we found a 12.5 billion year old one still doing it's thing.
@@JB-yb4wn I was referencing Dr. Danny Faulkner, an astronomer with graduate degrees in physics and astronomy. He’s featured in the documentary Is Genesis History, which is free to view on TH-cam. Check it out to hear his expertise on the subject. He says that according to astronomy, “the inside of the (spiral) galaxies should spin faster than the outside of the galaxies. So after a few rotations you oughta wind up or smear out those spiral patterns. They oughta disappear after a few rotations. Now most astronomers think that spiral galaxies are 10 billion+ years old. So why do we still see spiral patterns? You shouldn’t see those. And it has been long recognized as a problem.” The estimation of earth being thousands instead of billions of years old was based on what most creationists believe. If you google “when should a spiral galaxies spirals disappear,” it will answer, “after only 500 million years the arms should be so wound up that the structure disappears.” The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be 13.61 billion years old. Yet it is in the shape of a spiral, and has two main spiral arms. The Perseus arm and the Scutum-Centaurus arm. Below is an article of information compiled by scientists revealing evidence of a young earth if you’d like to know more. answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/evidence-for-young-earth-creation/
@@rebeccalynn3003 you are recommending someone check out Answers in Genesis to learn about science? That's not a very good idea, considering the fact that they have a 'statement of faith' on their website.. this means that the people who contribute to AIG, including the scientists who write articles for them, adhere to that statement of faith. A person cannot conduct science while adhering to a 'statement of faith'.
I so strongly agree. However, there are many who will refer to us as ungodly heathens. Many think that one must discard the entire Bible or ignore obvious knowledge. I have much trouble with PHDs who twist the observable truth to fit their position.
I can guarantee you that their is NO honest scientific statement in any book in the world that can support the story of evolution. It is easy to find the fraud and/or deception in every one. This is why evolutionists will not debate a creation scientist.
Minute 9:12 the sea creatures didn't live in top of the hill but what if in the flood in genesis that describes that it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, some sea creatures died on the hills due to water coming down back to normal.
you would need 4 MILLION days of rain to cover the entire earth....and of course there is the problem of there NOT being even close to enough h20 on the planet for that.
God made the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days. How do you see any problem at all with a worldwide flood? There is plenty of evidence of plants and dead animals being washed into reefs and buried under tons of mud. There is evidence of uplifts that we call mountains.
Total philosophical explanations. "the Bible is not intending to teach science"; but it absolutely teaches creation, origins which has to do with science!) "it teaches from a cultural standpoint" The cultural context view is liberal theology. No one was there so you go by what liberal scholars and liberal anthropologists claim.
You should go by what scientists have demonstrated through data and evidence. Unless of course data and evidence conflict with your personal beliefs. If that's the case, feel free to ignore reality and go with your gut.
Dr. Bernard, when it comes to cosmology, I feel that you were remiss in not mentioning Hugh Ross. His books on the creation are absolutely amazing. He came to Christ, simply from studying the heavens.
Agreed! Hugh Ross is the man when it comes to cosmology, but he also has broad and deep knowledge across other fields such as earth science, geology, chemistry, history, and scripture. He's very humble, patient, and even funny. His story of how he came to faith through science is amazing.
I am puzzled. Some parts of the bible I am supposed to take metaphorically, not literally. Others I am supposed to take literally, not metaphorically. Who makes that determination? Me? Or David K. Bernard? And who is he?
There is a distinction between creating and making. Create means to form from nothing. Make means to transform for service. The Bible doesn't does not say the heaven and earth was created in six days but made in six days. The age of geologic formations depends on what processes you believe formed it.
Sure wasted his fine education on nonsense, too bad. But hey, there are some real physicists out there who do real work finding answers to real questions without a god being in the equation.
For the vast amount of the time, I really appreciate Bernard’s teaching. However, there is a point here that must be approached with caution. Two points here are really good: the first point, that the Bible is not intended to be a “scientific book” and the last point, that all people are sinners in need of salvation via the New Birth. Where circumspection is required is the middle bit. Macro-evolutionists will insist that in order to have a meaningful discussion you must adopt their version of “science”, and it is very tempting (and easy) for those of us who do believe God’s Word as true to get sucked into looking at their “evidence” without thinking critically about what is being said. At the heart of observational science is the concept of a theory being 1) observable, 2) testable, and 3) repeatable. (I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this…and many contemporary macro-evolutionists are DESPERATELY trying to distance themselves from this cornerstone of scientific inquiry). For example, knowing the chemical makeup of vinegar and baking soda we can hypothesize that adding them together will create a reaction, and sure enough, when we put the two together (test and observe), our hypothesis is confirmed. Some other group in another part of the world can do the same thing (repeatable). Thus we can accept as valid that vinegar plus baking soda equals a big foamy mess. But a single celled creature gaining enough complexity to become a multi-cellular creature…pray tell us all…how does one DIRECTLY observe this for millions of years (nope, looking at a fossil record doesn’t count…that’s still a hypothesis that HAS TO BE TESTED)…And, uhm, what about all that information (directions) in the form of DNA that have to be generated to such a degree of perfection that otherwise you end up with…well…a big foamy mess. And as for testing…the theory is that you don’t have to intervene for the building blocks of life to somehow assemble themselves. So to create a test or experiment necessarily VIOLATES the whole premise of macro-evolution. In other words, no the Bible is not intended to be a “scientific” text (per se), HOWEVER , we can easily see some significant problems with macro-millions-of-years-evolution. The more intellectually honest way of approaching this issue is, rather than insisting that students declare that dinosaurs roamed the earth 60 million years ago, say “Hey, this is what we THINK might have happened but we really don’t have the capacity to verify it” rather than…wait for it…wait for it…have FAITH in what macro-evolutionists want to insist is absolutely true…
I believe that if God can create the things that exist today than its certainly isn’t hard to accept the literal words written. the fact he can is enough for me.
@@Dudefixedit Well let me enlighten you. These inventors, some of them were executed by the church for saying such blasphemous things like the Earth revolves around the sun. Of course later on they would say that they were "god-fearing" morons because they didn't want to be kicked out of their university or place of employment. Really that easy. You should maybe be asking why the church is dying out as people get more and more educated. Canada has already closed some 10,000 in the last 3 years.
@@JB-yb4wn Then why don’t they deny God on their death beds? In fact those that didn’t believe in any God during their lives, actually talked about possibility of God on their death bed. Some calling up priests for prayer and repentance.
Please consider the wealth of material put forward by such as Answers in Genesis and The Institute of Creation Research and Creation Ministeries etc, who clearly and 'scientifically' provide copious material based on proper scientific research methods and the Bible, that discount what this man puts forward.
It's odd, the bible points to truth. Yet, if it's a fact that 2+2 = 4, and someone says it actually equals 5, we don't pretend there is an extra 1 hidden in there to interpret. We say, no sorry, but it's 4. Yet, only in this subject we say 2+2=5 could also be right.
@@dylans482 I'm not sure what your point is, but it sounds interesting. While a math textbook has its purpose, the Bible has a much different purpose. The Bible points to Truth, yes, but some only see the figurative "finger," rather than that to which it points. Only perpetual humility will let us see more and more of that truth. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯
@@jenkinsljenkinssquire9137 Not really. When the interpretation is wrong, you humble down to find out what was the true intent. Certainly, men have misunderstood *_Truth_* throughout all of time. Only through perpetual humility do we have a chance of glimpsing more and more of truth. As with any set of conflicting claims, one, the other, *_or both_* could be wrong. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯
Born raised UPCI, differ now on many doctrines after study.... I must admit I am disappointed in this explanation. I expected more from bro Bernard. If genesis isn't literal then you don't have authority for claims of Christianity. The methods these " experts" use are very flawed.
Magnificent exposition on this topic. I am a Christian and have several degrees in sciences and medicine and I have never heard a pastor explain all this in such a grounded and quite frankly, wise way. I too agree with almost all of it. The disagreement is infimal. But this video is underrated and am sad not many people have watched this video. The Dr. needs more exposure. This needs to get out there into mainstream Christianity.
I don't understand. How could you have degrees in the sciences and medicine, and think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, which would also mean you don't accept the facts of biological evolution..? *Evolutionary medicine* is its own branch of science; it works, of course, and much progress is being made in several areas concerning medicine and biological evolution, so I'm just wondering how you can think the Earth is 6,000 years old? Maybe you don't, and I'm just misinterpreting your comment or something, I don't know:-)
If the Earth was made before the Sun, Moon, and stars… what did the Earth rotate around? or was everything made to move around the Earth within the firmament? Honestly I’m over the whole “Let the science classes teach our children in school and we’ll role with that”
The bible explains that the earth is unmoveable. The earth does not rotate, that's all a lie. The earth is flat. Man has never walked on moon, all a hoax. the devil wants ppl to believe lies and confuse ppl for them not to believe that God is real. If u believe in flat earth u have to believe that God is real and that's what the devil doesn't want. Flat earth explains so much things in the bible that we don't understand.
@@kimlayne1993 Honestly, after a lot of studying and looking into the Word. I actually understand where you are coming from. Science isn’t making sense, after all…it’s all about deception.
@@noahanderson238 do a research on flat earth and u will see what I am speaking about. The reason why the devil wants ppl to believe that the earth is round is that if u believe that the earth is flat then u will have no other choice but to believe in God. Flat earth debunks atheism. Just like flat earth explains that the earth was created that's how Genesis explains it.
@@francise.j.verzosa710 the earth is flat go and do ur research and u can ask the Creator of this world to tell u the truth if u know and believe in him.
Profound narrative. Psalm 147: 4 "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names". In this scripture one can imagine beyond the big bang concept that each body of the galactic terrestrials were singularly created and placed by God in a very caring manner. It definitely gives insight in to how vast and infinite God is. Another example is Psalms 90:4 “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Peter quoted it as "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." So, I am left to believe as Bro. Bernard, the teaching is about God and not science.
Kajuniter, In 2 Peter 3 God proves to us that the world was created about 6,000 years ago because in prophecy each day represents 1,000 years, thus, Adam to Christ's birth was 4,000 years, Adam's sinning to Christs death and resurrection was 4,000 years, and in "Hosea 6:2 Christ will return after the 2,000 year gentile period and then we will reign with Christi for the Sabbath 1,000 year period while Jesus Christ is our High Priest. Does this make sense to you?
@@danminer5343, by not having a thorough study on your subject, I will agree the Gentile period is about up. That said, would make your years align closely. Good point to consider, thanks!
the bible can only be interpreted one way. and one way only. denominations do not change the Word. no one can change it. just because there are many denominations, doesnt mean God's word or its interpretation changes. get it right
I love your videos and this is by far my favorite. A large number of my fellow believers believe this is a heaven and hell issue. You summed it up very well. Thank you!
He summed it up very well using a strawman, that one doesn't need to understand Genesis to be saved. No one believes that. We all know you don't clean fish till their caught. Theistic Evolution undermines the words of God through Moses, while claiming the Bible and evolution are homogeneous. They are oil and water. When the going gets rough, people are assisted in walking away when they do not have a SURE foundation to stand upon. That's heaven and hell.
This is only the second video of this guy I've ever watched and I'm probably done.... He definitely eisegetes the text and brings his own views into his interpretation instead of letting God's work speak for itself.... I read one comment down the list about radiocarbon dating and it's obvious that the writer of this particular comment knows nothing about radiocarbon dating or parent isotope dating. From what I see in the world the lord Jesus is going to save a lot of people who are very wrong as long as they believe that he is the Son of God and was raised from the dead....
1st Timothy 6:20. My Bro. has the truth about water and spirit. Water baptism in Jesus Name, baptism of the Holy Ghost truth along with the truth of the oneness of God!! Don’t try to make God fit the mold of science! We know the word “yom” is a 24 hour day!! When God spoke these things immediately came into being!! Just like the storm on the sea!! No different! If the Lord be God, serve Him!! If science, then serve it!! Bottom line!! Our God is supernatural!! Let God be true and every man a liar!!
do a word search of firmament. - a solid structure that God is well pleased with, which he beat out and stretched which separates the waters ABOVE from the waters BELOW - the biblical account of creation paints the picture of stationary flat earth which is covered by a solid dome in which the sun, moon and stars are within it, all of which is set on pillars. Also if I am wrong ,,,, please point me to the scripture which says God made a spinning earth orbiting in a expanding universe. please enlighten me.
Einstein's theory of relativity proves that both things can be true at once. Time is relative to the observer. From earth's perspective, the universe could be thousands of years old, while from the perspective of light, it's billions of years old. Also, the Bible clearly describes the expansion of the universe; the expansion of space is much faster than the speed of light. So to me, it's a moot point.
A good book by Apostolic young earth creation scientist, Arlo E Moehlenpah is entitled "Creation versus Evolution, Science and Religious Considerations" in which he answers Theistic Evolution and responds directly to the philosophical approach as expressed here by Brother Bernard.
What's a moot point, Einstein's theory? When theories are proven they become law, as in Newton's Law of Gravity. No one has it can prove, in the slightest, billions of years.
In this interview I was disappointed their was no mention of a cataclysmic Flood. Flood evidence is overwhelming. It accounts for physical evidence like fossils, sediment, rock formations, canyons, etc. Unfortunately, an alarming number of Apostolics nowadays readily cast doubt on the Bible, yet accept Theistic Evolution without question.
Many Christians' faith have been shaken by Evolution because it attacks the Bible at it's foundation. Theistic Evolution is an unhealthy compromise because if it were true and we are honest, we have to say the Bible is not true. First and foremost, TE does not stand on its own merits.
When did Einstein become God?? Let God be true and every man a liar!! The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked!! Gods Word is truth!! He is a supernatural God and Is to this very day!!
Doesn't matter the age. When God made Adam. He made Adam with age. When Adam was a few minutes old, he looked like a mature young man. When God turned water into wine. He made aged wine. How do you make the best wine ? You age it. God could very well have made the earth with age already in it . Important thing is that God made the heavens and the earth. God bless.
We have a reconstructed tree ring record of German trees going back nearly 12,000 years. We have annual ice layers in ice cores going back nearly 1 million years. So, the Earth is demonstrably far older than 6,000 years old. The other stars in the universe are literally millions of light years away. It takes that long for their light to reach us and we are literally seeing them from the deep past.
It depends on what belief system you have behind ones measurements and expectations, as to what results you gain. If a person wants to not believe in the One True Christian God of the Bible, well much will be done to try and destroy the Bible and True Christian belief by interpreting data wrongly and applying worldly, non-Biblical optics to such data. The question is: is one to believe the Bible, or believe in unbelieving man?
Wow, I've been waiting for you Ptr. Bernard to tackle this topic, for I backslid because of the scienrific views and I thought it is inconsistent woth the bible... but, With you being said that science is consistent with the bible, and that billions of years creation may be true, I have trouble combining the idea in Genesis that God formed man, and in scientific view, evolution from primordial soup, to fish, to ape, to man? Anyone who replies and answers will be greatly appreciated...🙂
Brother there is so so so much evidence for young earth and many people and scientists ready and willing to prove ,debate, and share that information. First of all if God said it its true and he Clearly gave us the geanalogies from Adam to Jesus. Do the math you can't quezze millions of years any where. The earth and its inhabitants were created instantly in 6 days period the Bible is clear on this. The devil Job is to get you to doubt this just like he did with eve. All you have to do is reject his lies and lean on God's word. If you don't understand stand something prayer for revelation. He will answer. Kent hovind debated almost every university in the 1990s and destroyed there best prophessors and all there evidence. Go to TH-cam and watch all his debates you will doubt Young earth again.
Consider reviewing the abundance of information and research available from Answers in Genesis (TH-cam and Website) Books to read: Darwin's Demise and Evolution Exposed: Biology
What we taught in science at school is mostly controlled by the devil and isn't true. I think u need to do a study on flat earth and it will give u all the answers u need. Today's science will always contradicts what the bible says because the devil is behind it. The bible said the devil is the father of lies.
@@kimlayne1993 the earth isn’t flat!! I’ve been up over 47,000ft and have seen the curvature myself! The Bible says “He took the circle of the earth and suspended it upon nothing”. The earth is most definitely round!! God made it that way and it’s clear in scripture.
Thank You! I appreciate your mention of different ideas and opinions on these subjects for context...... To me, there appears to be a distinction between 'creation' and 'formation' in the Bible...... I've always seen Genesis 1 as a brief overview from God's perspective..... In his 'creation' story God tells us firsthand how the universe came to be, as he describes it in simple terms.... God was/is not restricted to 24hour days or any measure of time in any way..... When the story begins, God hadn't yet 'created' the sun, moon, and stars which is how we calculate time. In Gen1 God talks about 'creating' everything including mankind..... then he's done...... it's "very good" (it functions in harmony)...... then he rests..... Yet in Gen2 some of the story is repeated but this time he says he 'forms' man.... At this point the Biblical perspective seems to shift from God's perspective (outside of time) to our perspective (linear time) as the Bible continues on from there..... We experience this ongoing 'formation' process firsthand because we're living inside it...... God doesn't.......The only exception being the few days he spent as a human being formed into flesh as Jesus. As far as God is concerned everything is completed..... Perhaps from God's perspective everything has always been, and always is completed....... Maybe from our perspective as humans, everything will always be forming and never completed.
Something interesting I noticed in Genesis is that it says He made all the plants grow from the ground. I always just pictured it growing really fast (like that time lapse video). And I think God’s light travels faster than the speed of light. Lol “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20 ESV I like how this verse specifically denotes how obvious it is that some eternal power and divine nature created the world.
The science book says the earth is 4.5 billion yrs. old, the bible, the religious book of christians, says the earth is only about 6,000 yrs. old. The bible, among other things, says animals can talk, sticks can turn into snakes, people can turn into salt and rise from the grave, food can fall from the sky.. ? I'll go with the science book.
❤️IF you would have seen and examined adam after GOD our Father in Heaven created him ,adam would have appeared to be a fully grown man and he was ...and not a baby ...but he was created by GOD in that one day . In the same way the living GOD our Father in Heaven made the earth just as written in the Word of GOD in Genesis .it was created by GOD in six days but appears to be much older ,yet we KNOW by the Word of GOD the approximate age of the earth and it is NOT millions or billions of year old but under 7000 years old !!! and you will KNOW the truth and the TRUTH will make you FREE .John 8 vs 32 .Everything was made IN YESHUA and he makes NEW men and women yet just call on him and KNOW him this day ( See John 14 vs 17 vs 21 vs 23 vs 29 after Calling on him and just ask and be given by GOD and SEE and HEAR and KNOW him !!!🕊️
😂 Wow brother David also drank the coole' of the scientific concensus. Example, what tool was used to measure speed of light. What tool was used to measure the speed of light travelling from the sun to earth.
Bro. Bernard, I am a fellow Apostolic (former UPC), but I respectfully disagree with you and subscribe to the Creation account, and geologies (yes they may be imperfect, but not billions and millions of years imperfect) as written in the Word of God, 6 literal creation days, flood sediment and fossils, I do not subscribe to modern science as it is interpreted from a world view of evolution and atheism and not the Word of God. I fully subscribe to the YEC argument, the flood account (with a mixture of catastrophic plate tectonics and the hydroplate theory), and absolutely reject evolution (unless we are speaking of micro evolution or speciation in which we observe in science). While I appreciate the viewpoint, it to me seems to be yet another UPC compromise to better fit in with the modern world. I wish we could just stick with the message as written. The Earth is less than 10k years old, there was a flood around 4500 or so years ago, and Jesus is coming back for his bride. The gospel is all we need, not lowering our standards and message to win this world.
I will give due respect and honor where it is due, Your Oneness debates are top notch, and I will be using a lot of your arguments in my apologetics message when I begin my creation and Apostolic apologetics ministry.
Yeah, sounds like he thinks young earthers rely solely on Jesus Magic to explain their position and assumes every atheist theory, except evolution, to be proven fact.
@@Pikkabuu Sorry, should have said secularist theory. Basically anything we universally accept as "fact" on the matter are simply just theories. When scientific problems arise in those theories, it's human nature to defend them rather than question one's own beliefs. If that's difficult for the scientists, how worse is it for the layman. The average layman doesn't even grasp this concept, assumes all this as proven fact and has no investment in committing brain matter to the subject.
@@southpawjimmy9735 Science doesn't go by belief as science has evidence. Nor is science secular either! It simply follows the evidence. Also you should educate yourself on what a scientific theory is.
@@Pikkabuu Parsing my words and using exclamation points? Guess you win. Point is YEC are using evidence as much as anyone else and the speaker is talking like they aren't.
Young Earth creationists exclude the first earth age. It requires poor mental gymnastics to deny the literal interpretation of the verses which discuss this age. They are well-equipped to rise to the task.
The light we see is the real time light and not past time light of some sec or mins or years or light years or millions of billions of years, the light time we now know is the half time of the whole time of light to travel back to the source, so we cant really calculate the one way time of the light, so stars and other luminaries light's one way travel to earth is instant means we are observing the real time light and not the half of some two way light time calculation
@@Pikkabuu the theory of light itself go study it first, the distance is exactly the half of the two way measurement of light, we can't simply know one way speed of light, the one way speed of light is the actual reality not some hypothetical measurement of equally divided two way measurement
The findings of science (empirical evidence of God's handiwork) contradict the YEC *_interpretation_* of scripture. God's Truth, both in scripture AND science is never a contradiction. So, we are left with: *_God, please help me understand your words more accurately!_* 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯
Paul quotes from Job 5:13 to show that God catches those who are supposedly wise in their craftiness. He knows all their supposedly wise ideas and teachings will not help them to escape a face-to-face meeting with Him in the end.
These interpretations lead to discrepancies in how you interpret the Bible. I don’t see how the scientific revolution answers the fundamental fact that Adam sinned, and that affected all of us. God created the universe and created life. There was a flood, and that illuminates the need for millions of years to lay down settlements. This guy needs to get serious about the Bible and stop trying to interpret the Bible using changeable scientific conjecture.
I don't know how old the Earth is, but I do know that without the Holy Ghost and being "born-again" we're not going into the Kingdom, and the only way to receive the Spirit of Christ is to obey Acts 2:38.
How many books by evolutionary experts have you read? Would you ask a meat-eater about their take on the theory of the dietary benefits of a vegan diet?
'I think I have more questions about that than the age of the Earth' Why wait for someone to make a video and upload it in order to find the answers you are looking for? There are plenty of free resources online to learn about biological evolution.
@@philipbuckley759 I don't understand this comment, either :-) are you talking about 'adding information to the genome', which I hear young-earth creationists mention often? Biological evolution is not about chance, really. I mean, mutations can occur randomly, of course, but natural selection isn't random, and other aspects of evolution are not random.. and 'information' accumulates in several ways. Gene duplication would be one of them. Gene Duplications are a common starting point for the evolution of new genetic information. When gene duplications occur, they dramatically lengthen the genetic code of an individual. As point mutations add up in the duplicated region across generations, entirely new genes with new functions can evolve. That's just one example, there are other ways new genes form. Anyway, if 'new information' could not be added, don't you think biologists / geneticists would have figured that out a long, long time ago?
@@francestrewin1715 I don't know about any 'Godly' information concerning evolution, unless we're talkin about intelligent design I suppose, but she or he could hit up PubMed, Google Scholar, Etc and find hundreds of thousands of technical scientific peer-reviewed papers on the subject of biological evolution. That is, *if* the person is honestly interested in learning about evolution, of course.
Im a little disappointed that the flood of Noah wasn't included in this discussion. If the flood of Noah happened, it explains practically all the things we see such as climates, mass extinction, radical clinate change, oil and coal deposits, the grand canyon
If you're interested, you should study up on the Grand Canyon :-) amazing how all those layers each represent different eras, different periods throughout history, with different ecosystems, fossil remains, etc., all kinds of stuff indicating the Grand Canyon is most definitely millions of years old.
I'm telling you, its the really fast water flood
@@travisbicklepopsicle when the Grand Canyon is actually researched according to the features offered by it, with the Christian/Biblical worldview, one can see that it is a very powerful presentation supporting the Biblical world wide flood of Noah's experience.
The Grand Canyon does not bear out the evolutionary theory.
AronRa’s TH-cam channel has 8 videos regarding the Flood, using Meteorology, Geology, etc
Information not available elsewhere
As I stated in a lengthier comment, God will offer His mercy to every repentant sinner regardless of their previous views on science, politics or social issues. For this I am thankful!
That said, I find among the most significant theological arguments against evolution (theistic or otherwise) and the required old earth that goes with it, is that of "death by sin" (Apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Rome).
If there are millions of years of death before Adam, then death isn't actually the result of sin. If that's the case, there is no purpose for the cross of Jesus Christ.
On the other hand, if death is the result of sin as the Bible says, and the fossil record is a testimony to the devastating effects of sin, then Jesus' death has tremendous meaning and implications.
there are no significant theological arguments against evolution
@@RenaissanceEarCandy your statement demonstrates a lack of understanding for the term "Theology" and what constitutes a theological argument.
The entire purpose of the evolutionary hypothesis is an attempt to explain the existence of the created order without the involvement of the Creator.
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Well no kidding, the fact is that there are mountains of proofs proving evolution, but nothing that proves a "god" did anything.
Even the child molesters, pedophiles, mass murderers, and genocide causing war criminals? WTF kind of heaven you running here? You can do horrendous acts against humanity but still receive salvation in a last second death-bed confession? Sounds like bullshit to me.
@@arthurvanderhoff2413 the entire purpose of evolutionary theory is to explain the biodiversity of life on Earth. It's a scientific theory. It has nothing to do with any gods.
The problem with old earth creation is that is messes with the original Sin and original adam theology. As well as death.
💯 Romans 5:12
8:12 God did say let there be light on the very first day before the sun was made. It doesn't have to take light years for the sun's rays to reach the planet when God could command light.
I agree this is very interesting to me as well. Light existed before our sun existed. So we'd have light, and non-light or (darkness). If we accept this light existed at a specific point of origin, it could be that all matter derives from this light. We do know that light has no mass as it is only photons, but it is affected by gravity and other influences. Perhaps that source light did have some form of mass, or became matter. Like, what was the causation for light? Was this first light, as Big Bang theory suggests, an infinitely dense ball of matter that was so indescribably compact that it generated its own light/heat/energy until it exploded into what is now our expanding universe?
Right and it doesn't take a sun to be the source of light either. Let there be light and there was light. Atheists just cannot grasp the meaning of omnipotence and neither can some self-proclaimed "Christians." To be Christian means to be elect of God and regenerated by the Holy Ghost. Christians are spared the eternal wrath of God which all mankind deserves for disobeying and dishonoring God. Christianity is not a state that can be earned or bought or chosen, it is an unearned pardon from God, not a measure of merit.
***God said nothing, whoever wrote it said that God said so, but God speak in it´s own language, we do not know if the writer understood God´s language.***
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We only know about Alexander the Great because somebody said so - in writing.
Are you making a personal statement of faith, or are you repeating what someone else said?
Remember....in Revelation 21 it states 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine [ a]in it, for the [ b]glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. The Lamb is the Word Jesus referenced in John 1:1-5 and truly is the light of the world.
As someone who holds to Creation science and a young earth viewpoint, I can appreciate the perspective shared here. While the Bible does reveal many scientific facts centuries prior to their "discovery" by modern scientists (the water cycle is one of many examples of this), it is an excellent observation that the Bible is NOT primarily a science text. There are certainly many poetic descriptions as well as spiritual views on reality that would seem scientifically impossible. Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research are both organizations which have bona fide scientists (astronomers, geologists and biologists) who have done first person research that presents a differing and (to the fair-minded) legitimate interpretation of the data and evidence available for our observation. No geologist digs up a rock with a little tag that says, "Hi, I'm 4 billion years old" or, "Hi, I'm 7 thousand years old". Scientific data requires interpretation and the worldview and presuppositions of the scientists involved in the data collection will influence their interpretation of that data.
That said, God definitely accepts the repentance of people from every background with any given set of political, scientific and social beliefs. No one has to have it all figured out when they come to Him for mercy and salvation. I am deeply grateful for that truth.
Great point to prove.... the book of Bible is not the science book so that it may analyse every science perspective on scientific sequence so that the mankind may easily understand.
None of us have to figure it all out and undo our indoctrination in order to get mercy and salvation. That is certainly not the point to whether of young or old earth. The reason its so important is that if Genesis is not true, then neither is the New Testament. That is why Atheists attack Genesis. Theistic Evolutionists help to kick out the foundation. Many people fall later on because when things get tough they do not have a SURE foundation in the word of God.
@@orexjobkombea2452 There is no greater science book than the Bible...sorry.
Dr. Bernard is excellent at what he does and that is spreading the Gospel and explaining the oneness of God. As far as science, he is stating his opinion, in which I respectfully disagree. There are a lot of scientific reasons why the earth cannot be billions of years old. One being the sun does not have nor ever had the energy or gas to burn that long. The Bible is the infallible word of God. Whether we understand all of it or not has no effect on it being true. His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts.
1. The bible reveals no scientific facts whatsoever.
2. If all the meteors that we see craters for now, struck the planet 6,000 years ago, there would be no life on this planet- period. (just so that you know, 2 of these strikes that we know of were far bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.) Also, the reason why our planet is on a 23.5 degree tilt is that it was struck by a Mars size planet that was vapourized. The moon is a result of that collision that happened BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO.
3. We have trees older than 6,000 years.
4. AIG "scientists" have to sign a document stating that they will uphold the tenet of the scripture, NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS.
5. Rocks have been dated using radiometric means since 1947, can't help it if you are too stupid to google.
6. Which god accepts the repentance of people? As far as gods go, your guy wasn't around when deities like Brahma were creating the universe and such. Your god taking credit for another god's work?
7. Your "merciful" god apparently wiped out the planet in the most cruel and idiotic manner possible. Thank goodness none of the civilizations at the time got the flood memo, they kept right on existing like nothing ever happened.
The Bible was not only written such that man could understand it in the plain sense in which its various genres were written, but it's also written from an earth-centric/human-centric perspective. We're advised that God's thoughts are higher than ours and that His ways are past finding out. We need not view the time statements in Genesis as supposedly being from God's perspective. The Bible clearly drives at it being given from an earth-centric/human-centric perspective when illustrating that the 6 days of Creation are the foundational basis for our 6-day work week with a Sabbath every 7 days. That's but one example. Others include "morning and evening," etc.
Amen. Theistic Evolution is a natural approach to a miraculous event. Yet evolution fails to work out naturally. Millions of years is mathmatically impossible. We'd be standing on top of each other.
@@banclaster8086 well, apparently evolution absolutely does work out naturally, since it's the core principle in biology and all the life sciences, and evolutionary biology has, and does, lead to advancements in many areas that affect all of our lives, from agriculture to medicine and much more, so..
If evolution isn't fact, we wouldn't have an entire *scientific theory* built around it, right?
You're misquoting scripture; it's, "..there was evening and there was morning..."
@@banclaster8086 ***I accept that "Millions of years is mathmatically impossible" but only for you and others like you, not for God or for those who understands what God is all about. you also said that evolution fails to work naturally, but God has no limits.***
The reason you can find shells and sea creature fossils in Texas and other not normal places is from the great flood, which would also be how fossil fuel, diamonds, etc was formed so quickly, from the immense pressure and crushing from the flood waters.
Yep, NO discussion on the flood in this interview.
@@banclaster8086 the point is that diamonds, oil, etc. haven’t needed millions of years to form, but could have formed quickly in a single cataclysmic event where great pressure was exerted on organic matter to form oil and on coal to make diamonds. Ipso facto mumbo columbo, the flood.
@@jmluc90 so...I'm not in disagreement. My point is Dr B didn't mention the flood in this vid. He doesn't understand that an ocean creature that dies on its own is unlikely to become a fossil because it gets eaten or is not subject to cataclysmic pressure.
Diamonds are not formed from compressed organic (once living) carbon - they are formed at deeper depths and sometimes brought up as a result of tectonic activity. So it's a fallacy when YEC start talking about radiocarbon dating diamonds - they were never alive, so the method is invalid right from the start, anything found is only background radiation/contamination. YEC arguments like this only serve to show they are not scientists.
Good point and observation. I never thought of that.
The question of earth's age can be answered with another question: how long were Adam and Eve in the garden before they sinned?
Some Jews believe Adam and Eve ate the fruit only one hour after God's warning of the consequences. You should notice it wasn't 'if' they ate the fruit...... It was WHEN!.... True 'free will' can only be created through disobedience. Doing something/anything different than God's will.... But there's those nasty consequences........So, can you guess what the effect of the 'fruit' of "the knowledge of good and evil" actually IS?....
You guessed it...................... SIN!!!!!
@@mt9567 what if you use your free will to obey God? Why would freewill only exist in disobedience? What if we want to do what He wants us to do?
While that particular question is not definitely answerable out of the Biblical text, it seems unlikely that they were there for billions of years.
The better question is the one of sin, and "death by sin" as Paul says.
To me, the best theological argument for a young earth is that sin is the cause of death and the reason God was in Christ and shed His own blood to free us from sin and death.
If one accepts millions of years of evolution prior to the sin of Adam, then the purpose of the cross is void, because death wouldn't be the result of sin after all.
@@Obedient-Faith Thanks for responding..... Your first question... " what if you use your free will to obey God?".... Yes, that's the whole point of the entire Bible.... obey God's will...... "Why would freewill only exist in disobedience?"..... Adam and Eve were only capable of doing and thinking God's will. They had no concept of sin, only obedience. They thought just like God. They were like robots with no individual personality. Like clones of God in flesh. It seems God wanted real love, not an imitation or reflection. Adam and Eve's love would be like sending yourself flowers or candy on Valentine's day. It would have no meaning.
Nothing of God happens by accident. It was a set-up! God didn't say IF, he said WHEN you eat.......... If God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit (of knowledge) he could've prevented it in any number of ways. But God needed to create humans who could think for themselves and freely choose to love him. God even allowed the 'serpent' as a catalyst to complete the process. Adam and Eve chose to do exactly what God needed them to do. Now mankind could become true individuals free to choose.
But anything outside of God's will is fatal. Our little bit of free will comes at a great cost to everyone, including God himself as he came to save us from the effects of the 'fruit'.... of.... "the knowledge of good and evil"............ sin......... Regardless, God seems to think it's worth it all........... Genesis1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good"........ (the word 'good' is 'tov' in Hebrew... meaning 'functional' and/or 'In harmony with God').
....."What if we want to do what He wants us to do?........ That's the whole point........................ we can freely choose to do what he wants us to do.......... or not...... Disobedience was once the only pathway into free will....... Now, yet still bound by the effects of sin and death, our free will allows us to choose the pathway of everlasting life...... Jesus was born sinless simply because he was conceived directly from God's spirit rather than another sinful human. His human spirit was 100% obedient to God. Even unto a gruesome death.
When we willingly obey Jesus as Jesus obeys his father/The Father....... we are reversing Adam and Eve's choice of individuality and death, into a better choice of both individuality and life. Adam and Eve did what God needed them to do. Now we try do what God needs us to do by accepting and living the commandments of Jesus.
Q: "how long were Adam and Eve in the garden before they sinned" A: I used to wonder if there could have been some huge time period before sin, undefined, but the Bible declares plainly, "Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died." Pre-fall years plus post-fall years = 930. Only by imagining that he was not actually "living" before his sin, during some imagined unknown number of pre-sin years, can one think we don't really know how long he lived. I don't go around such clear statements in Scripture.
My UGST thesis addresses this issue. As apostolics, we should be asking, how did the apostles understand Genesis? It is unfortunate that this discussion does not utilize an apostolic hermeneutic.
-Mitchell McQuinn
I don't think the Apostles believed in billions of years. I believe they understood when Moses said 6 days he meant 6 literal days; that the words "and it was so" in Gen 1 was the same speed as "and there was light".
UGST would be better named DKBST. Hope your the exception.
To be clear, I do believe that God created the universe in 6 literal days.
Not really. In early church writings like the Epistles Of Barnabas from the first century, Barnabas writes at some point that he believes that the six days thing was simply symbolism and has a hidden message of a longer period of time
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To be even clearer, I don't believe any god created anything.
How the early church viewed Genesis is an extremely important point.
Paul speaks of Adam in multiple letters. Peter refers to Abraham and Sarah; he also mentions Noah and his family ("8 persons"). Stephen in Acts 7, starts with Abraham and goes through Joseph and the early generations of Israelites in verse 17. These are 3 examples of people who viewed Genesis as an accurate historical account. Jesus himself mentioned Adam, Eve, Abel, Noah, Abraham and Lot as well as other Genesis characters.
This is not a comprehensive list of Genesis characters in the New Testament. The point is that an Apostolic hermeneutic definitely views Genesis as literal history. The writer of Hebrews begins the narrative of the heroes of faith with creation "through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God".
There is no indication that the Book of Acts church belived in "millions of years". Jesus taught clearly that God made human beings, "male and female" and did so "from the beginning" which makes perfect sense if the earth were only a few days old at that point and no sense if there were millions of years of death and suffering before Adam and Eve.
Earth made like Adam was. It was made mature. Trees 🌲 were also made mature with rings.
How about meteor craters? Your god make those too? And why?
@@JB-yb4wn my God the Creator of Heaven and earth made everything (:
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Your god wasn't around when the Hindu god was, I would say that your god takes credit for another god's work.
Since your god has never spoken to me I really can’t speak of a foreign relationship. But what I do is that Jesus died for all humanity:)
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I don't have a god, I am just pointing out the fallacies of all religions. If you believe that a useless god created the universe, then I would argue that Brahma was around 1500 years before the first Jew showed up in the desert. And if any "god" has a claim to creating the universe, that one sure does.
Moreover, beyond scripture, there is zero proof of a Jesus as described in the dogma, (and I do know that the Josephus account was a forgery, so look this stuff up first before you say something dumb).
Powerful explanation! Thank you Bishop Bernard!
GOD can create an earth 🌎 that looks 30 years old but it's actually a minute old....❤
Do you think that the god you worship is one who deceives?
@@dmahan8841 thanx 👍 sometimes I manage to make a good point or two haha
How can people be this intellectually dishonest?
I’m still laughing over the lovely earth rotation instead of the sunrise/sunset! But this is one of the best explanations on the possible timelines of creation I’ve watched. Are these sorts of debates important? A few years ago I’d have said no, but there are too many unsaved people out there for whom such issues are a barrier to their accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. As Christians we have a responsibility to be able to at least shed some light on such thorny issues. Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to share these thoughts, I myself am in the not-so-young earth camp!
And how is this video a great explanation?
@@Pikkabuu It provides a plausible alternative to the young earth doctrine.
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Problem is that it is still just as BS as creationism has no evidence to back it up.
I simply take God for his word. He said 6 literal days of 24 hours as in, evening & morning as God said in his word. God cant lie or exaggerate.
The Bible is subject to wildly differing interpretations. A document so ambiguous cannot be considered a reliable source of information.
The Jews appear anciently to have divided the day/night (from sunset to sunrise) into three watches. These three special hours for prayer-morning, noon, and night.
Psalms 55:17 (KJV) Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Daniel 6:10 (KJV) Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
With that being said; Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days.
We also know that the scriptures say:
Psalms 90:4 (KJV) For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8 (KJV) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Word Yôm that’s used in the Old Testament specifically in Genesis Chapter 1 means Hot. But could be referring to the distinction of heat from the sun in what we would consider day time and no heat when the moon is out and what we would consider night time. The word also can mean so much more with seasons, years, dispensation of time, etc..
So it’s hard to give a clear answer of what a day meant to The Lord that created the heavens and the earth. We know that ultimately God is All Powerful and I think we can all agree that God could have and has the ability to create the heavens and earth and all that is in them in an instant.
Just know that our understanding of and interpretation of these scriptures isn’t going to effect our Salvation.
We shouldn’t allow this to cause division or take up to much of our time. God is in control and it’s time for God’s Church to stay United through His Love and by His Holy Spirit.
That’s just the point. The Hebrew doesn’t say 6 literal 24 hour days.
@@jasonb9198 the translation can the other, yes but it's not. So ask a Hebrew and see how they translate it or did God have his way in the translation & it means 6 days of 24 hours each? IMO the translation is as God meant for it to be. 6 days of 24 hours
@@Post-Trib “No one can claim infallibility of the Scriptures when applying to it enough elasticity in an attempt to refute its message. One cannot serve God and mammon. Maybe God is trying to say something when He took 144 hours to make the finished and inhabitable earth and its contents when He could have done so in 144 seconds. Time before time or no time.
How much more rewarding it is to live by faith in the belief that God with His own finger wrote on tablets of stone SIX DAYS.
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (I Timothy 6:20)
Sidney J. Jansma, Sr., SIX DAYS, THEISTIC EVOLUTION: Bad Science and BAD THEOLOGY [emphasis added], Copyright 1985
Today's world population points to a very young creation. There are nearly 8 billion people on Earth today, while there were only about 250 million people in 1 A.D..
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”― Carl Sagan
@terryreynolds200 well he knows now
No.
8:44 sea creature could have ventured out of the sea during the flood. The water did cover the whole earth.
As a Last Thursdayist, I must object to an earth that old...
11:46 The evening and the morning was the first day. When HE says in 6 days HE is lying. If it was in millions of days.
God isn’t “traveling”. He is Omnipresent.
So you're saying God is *unable* to travel? Sounds heretical to me to limit God.
He doesn’t need to “go there” because He is eternally everywhere present. So sorry you are limiting God.
@@looknuptaylor2437 I never made any claim about what God needs or doesn't need to do. Just what he can do, which is anything he wants.
@@KevinDay God is also Omniscient and Omnipotent. He is beyond our understanding. That is, He is in no way hindered as we humans are. He loves you and me.
@@belovedofthelord795 Psalm 139:7-13
Thank you so much in the name of Jesus! This has put my mind to rest after such a long period of contention even causing arguments and putting my faith to test!
To claim that the Word of God is wrong,, that the earth created itself over billions of imaginary years and rejecting the global flood of Noah's Day is blasphemy. I believe God and not atheists.
@@danminer5343 it's scientific data and evidence that demonstrates there was no Global flood and Earth is billions of years old. Sure, some are atheists, but many are Christians or followers of some other belief system. Most Christians in the world don't take Genesis so literally because it conflicts with observed, demonstrable reality.
This interview is misguiding people away from the Biblical account and thereby likely detouring people from other Biblical doctrines based on and connected to, the Biblical standard of Gods' Creation which basically is 6,000 years.
@@danminer5343 'I believe God and not atheists'
What about scientists? Do you accept scientific data and evidence?
The majority of the world's Christians do not take the global flood story literally. Not that that in and of itself necessarily means anything, but they don't take it literally because they know it was not meant to be taken literally, and/or they also know there is no scientific data or evidence supporting a global flood. All relevant data and evidence from geology demonstrates no Global flood.
@@danminer5343 And you have a lot of scientific research that refutes the bald-face speculation that is called "the theory of evolution" which is not a scientific theory at all.
If the Bible and science conflict, why do we change our perpective on the unchanging Bible and not the every changing science?? Does science rank higher than the Bible??
Amen to that! Miracles boggle the mind of scientists, and God uses them all the time. So, that you need to factor into the equation, yes?
He says:
“The Bible speaks in language that people understand …and the Bible speaks from the point of view of human experience.”
BUT then says the Genesis account from “Gods prospective is 24 hr”.
This is a bad argument.
Can you do one on the the millennial reign of Jesus Christ?
Interesting, my pastor gave just that sermon this morning on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which represents the reign of Christ during the 1,000 year millennium! I'll share it here with you when it's posted!
Thankful for your thoughtful response to this complex & often confrontational topic.
Scientists are not hostile to the Bible story of creation, they just recognize it as fable.
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Saying that everything the Bible teaches is true is false. Later on he qualifies this as theological truth, I can abide by that as 'theological truth' has no relationship to physical reality so it can be whatever floats your boat, or Ark as the case may be.
A positive here is his saying that the Bible is not going to relate scientific facts. But will he abandon that when we get to the age of the Earth?
He then says "God created the universe and humans" but fails to show us why we should take that as physical truth rather than theological truth. No criterion has been put forth to distinguish the two.
Oooh, when talking about the genealogy of Matthew leaving out generations he admits that the text was manipulated to make untrue things seem to be true! He admits that the Bible is spun like a modern political contest!
He presents the "Earth created old" scenario, then starts explaining the silly aspects of that concept. His understanding of geologic forces is rather shallow, but he applies the concepts correctly. So he is actually debunking the YEC concept here.
Ah, he is pulling out the time dilation excuse for six God days for the 4.5 billion years, but that ignores that the Bible explicitly states diurnal cycles.
Eh, he presents the erroneous but common version of the Big Bang, the one that ignores QM invalidating the premises needed to get to the singularity. Will we never be able to purge that "lies to children" presentation of the theory? I do get tired of explaining that the necessary conditions for the theory to be valid fail as you get close to the nominal singularity, and we therefore know absolutely nothing about whether there was an actual start point. Also there was no explosion as most people conceive of that word, space itself expands, not some lump of matter expanding into an existing space. There was not light as Dr Bernard describes it until ~380,000 years after the expansion begins. He really needs to brush up on the theory, he is repeating some rather wrong ideas about it.
I partially agree, trying to prove the age of the universe using the Bible is probably not a good way to approach this subject. It is even more complicated by the fact that the Septuagint and the Masoretic text do not agree on this topic. The issue here is, no matter what your interpretation, you cannot interpret this subject in such a way as to have death occurring before the fall of Adam and Eve.
Oh, there was plenty of death before Adam and Eve, but not to humanity. Only to the animals that were created in the FIRST creation. The account in Genesis is the SECOND creation, the re-creation...see what scripture has to say about it here: th-cam.com/video/_0Z0e3h-Kl4/w-d-xo.html
Can we have a podcasts addressing" Do alien's exist " ?
Yes, I want to know why aliens always do anal probes. 👽
No space aliens
They don't.
Watch: Evolution's Achilles' Heels & Is Genesis History? Also, we live in a spiral galaxy. If the earth was billions of years old, the pictures of the milky way would look unraveled or the arms would be “wound up.” Technically according to astronomy, and other issues outlined in Is Genesis History, the earth is 6,000-15,000 years old. I love Bro. Bernard's teachings, but it's obvious that this subject isn't one of his strong points. You should delete this video or possibly update it after more research. I'm not comfortable recommending this TH-cam channel to people I'm discipling now. It's simply erroneous to agree at all with the big bang and evolution. The very foundations of these theories are flawed and impossible to prove. Christian scientists who see the Bible as absolute truth would agree.
I agree. Brother Bernard is good at what he does. Explaining the oneness of God and spreading the Gospel. As far as his opinion on the Earth's age, I respectfully disagree. The sun does not, nor ever had enough gas or energy to burn for billions of years.
FFS, before making such idiotic pronouncements, do creationists ever google this stuff up? I mean we have the whole knowledge of this planet sitting at your fingertips, and you say mind blowingly stupid stuff like "according to astronomy, the Earth is 6-15 thousand years old? No it isn't, and galaxies don't fly apart, (gravitational attraction, google it up) in fact we found a 12.5 billion year old one still doing it's thing.
@@JB-yb4wn I was referencing Dr. Danny Faulkner, an astronomer with graduate degrees in physics and astronomy. He’s featured in the documentary Is Genesis History, which is free to view on TH-cam. Check it out to hear his expertise on the subject. He says that according to astronomy, “the inside of the (spiral) galaxies should spin faster than the outside of the galaxies. So after a few rotations you oughta wind up or smear out those spiral patterns. They oughta disappear after a few rotations. Now most astronomers think that spiral galaxies are 10 billion+ years old. So why do we still see spiral patterns? You shouldn’t see those. And it has been long recognized as a problem.” The estimation of earth being thousands instead of billions of years old was based on what most creationists believe. If you google “when should a spiral galaxies spirals disappear,” it will answer, “after only 500 million years the arms should be so wound up that the structure disappears.” The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be 13.61 billion years old. Yet it is in the shape of a spiral, and has two main spiral arms. The Perseus arm and the Scutum-Centaurus arm. Below is an article of information compiled by scientists revealing evidence of a young earth if you’d like to know more.
answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/evidence-for-young-earth-creation/
@@rebeccalynn3003 you are recommending someone check out Answers in Genesis to learn about science? That's not a very good idea, considering the fact that they have a 'statement of faith' on their website.. this means that the people who contribute to AIG, including the scientists who write articles for them, adhere to that statement of faith. A person cannot conduct science while adhering to a 'statement of faith'.
I so strongly agree. However, there are many who will refer to us as ungodly heathens. Many think that one must discard the entire Bible or ignore obvious knowledge. I have much trouble with PHDs who twist the observable truth to fit their position.
I can guarantee you that their is NO honest scientific statement in any book in the world that can support the story of evolution. It is easy to find the fraud and/or deception in every one. This is why evolutionists will not debate a creation scientist.
Minute 9:12 the sea creatures didn't live in top of the hill but what if in the flood in genesis that describes that it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, some sea creatures died on the hills due to water coming down back to normal.
you would need 4 MILLION days of rain to cover the entire earth....and of course there is the problem of there NOT being even close to enough h20 on the planet for that.
God made the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days. How do you see any problem at all with a worldwide flood? There is plenty of evidence of plants and dead animals being washed into reefs and buried under tons of mud. There is evidence of uplifts that we call mountains.
Total philosophical explanations. "the Bible is not intending to teach science"; but it absolutely teaches creation, origins which has to do with science!) "it teaches from a cultural standpoint" The cultural context view is liberal theology. No one was there so you go by what liberal scholars and liberal anthropologists claim.
You should go by what scientists have demonstrated through data and evidence.
Unless of course data and evidence conflict with your personal beliefs. If that's the case, feel free to ignore reality and go with your gut.
Dr. Bernard, when it comes to cosmology, I feel that you were remiss in not mentioning Hugh Ross. His books on the creation are absolutely amazing. He came to Christ, simply from studying the heavens.
Agreed! Hugh Ross is the man when it comes to cosmology, but he also has broad and deep knowledge across other fields such as earth science, geology, chemistry, history, and scripture. He's very humble, patient, and even funny. His story of how he came to faith through science is amazing.
Dr Ross does not accept the Biblical creation being actually as the Bible relates. It doesn't refer to millions of years.
@@chesterwilson9796,we will have to disagree on that one.
I am puzzled. Some parts of the bible I am supposed to take metaphorically, not literally. Others I am supposed to take literally, not metaphorically. Who makes that determination? Me? Or David K. Bernard? And who is he?
Awesome video! It's refreshing to hear a well-reasoned approach to this subject.
His first example of the sun is based on science theory which contradicts biblical truth...
There is a distinction between creating and making. Create means to form from nothing. Make means to transform for service. The Bible doesn't does not say the heaven and earth was created in six days but made in six days. The age of geologic formations depends on what processes you believe formed it.
"Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true."
Albert Einstein
Dr. Gerald Schroeder of MIT and Israel. He reconciles this issue. The 6000 years are “mans” history. Read his writings on “The Age Of The Universe”.
Sure wasted his fine education on nonsense, too bad. But hey, there are some real physicists out there who do real work finding answers to real questions without a god being in the equation.
For the vast amount of the time, I really appreciate Bernard’s teaching. However, there is a point here that must be approached with caution. Two points here are really good: the first point, that the Bible is not intended to be a “scientific book” and the last point, that all people are sinners in need of salvation via the New Birth.
Where circumspection is required is the middle bit. Macro-evolutionists will insist that in order to have a meaningful discussion you must adopt their version of “science”, and it is very tempting (and easy) for those of us who do believe God’s Word as true to get sucked into looking at their “evidence” without thinking critically about what is being said.
At the heart of observational science is the concept of a theory being 1) observable, 2) testable, and 3) repeatable. (I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this…and many contemporary macro-evolutionists are DESPERATELY trying to distance themselves from this cornerstone of scientific inquiry).
For example, knowing the chemical makeup of vinegar and baking soda we can hypothesize that adding them together will create a reaction, and sure enough, when we put the two together (test and observe), our hypothesis is confirmed. Some other group in another part of the world can do the same thing (repeatable). Thus we can accept as valid that vinegar plus baking soda equals a big foamy mess. But a single celled creature gaining enough complexity to become a multi-cellular creature…pray tell us all…how does one DIRECTLY observe this for millions of years (nope, looking at a fossil record doesn’t count…that’s still a hypothesis that HAS TO BE TESTED)…And, uhm, what about all that information (directions) in the form of DNA that have to be generated to such a degree of perfection that otherwise you end up with…well…a big foamy mess.
And as for testing…the theory is that you don’t have to intervene for the building blocks of life to somehow assemble themselves. So to create a test or experiment necessarily VIOLATES the whole premise of macro-evolution. In other words, no the Bible is not intended to be a “scientific” text (per se), HOWEVER , we can easily see some significant problems with macro-millions-of-years-evolution. The more intellectually honest way of approaching this issue is, rather than insisting that students declare that dinosaurs roamed the earth 60 million years ago, say “Hey, this is what we THINK might have happened but we really don’t have the capacity to verify it” rather than…wait for it…wait for it…have FAITH in what macro-evolutionists want to insist is absolutely true…
This is very insightful. Loved this episode
I believe that if God can create the things that exist today than its certainly isn’t hard to accept the literal words written. the fact he can is enough for me.
You have a very low threshold then, if we all thought like you, we would still be driving horses and buggies.
@@JB-yb4wn How so? 98% inventors believed in a form of God and most of those in a Judeo-Christian God. Not a low threshold at all.
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Well let me enlighten you. These inventors, some of them were executed by the church for saying such blasphemous things like the Earth revolves around the sun.
Of course later on they would say that they were "god-fearing" morons because they didn't want to be kicked out of their university or place of employment.
Really that easy. You should maybe be asking why the church is dying out as people get more and more educated. Canada has already closed some 10,000 in the last 3 years.
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Because back in the day, if they didn't believe in a god, they were usually burnt as being heathens.
@@JB-yb4wn Then why don’t they deny God on their death beds? In fact those that didn’t believe in any God during their lives, actually talked about possibility of God on their death bed. Some calling up priests for prayer and repentance.
Interesting take on the starlight conundrum
Excellent video. Thank you, Dr. Bernard for your thought out and well-researched answers.
Very well said! ILLUMINATING!
Please consider the wealth of material put forward by such as Answers in Genesis and The Institute of Creation Research and Creation Ministeries etc, who clearly and 'scientifically' provide copious material based on proper scientific research methods and the Bible, that discount what this man puts forward.
Lovely presentation. And what is even more fascinating is that there is a timeline embedded in Genesis compatible with those of science.
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When the age doesn't fit the narrative, you change the narrative
It's odd, the bible points to truth. Yet, if it's a fact that 2+2 = 4, and someone says it actually equals 5, we don't pretend there is an extra 1 hidden in there to interpret. We say, no sorry, but it's 4. Yet, only in this subject we say 2+2=5 could also be right.
@@dylans482 I'm not sure what your point is, but it sounds interesting. While a math textbook has its purpose, the Bible has a much different purpose.
The Bible points to Truth, yes, but some only see the figurative "finger," rather than that to which it points. Only perpetual humility will let us see more and more of that truth.
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@@jenkinsljenkinssquire9137 Not really. When the interpretation is wrong, you humble down to find out what was the true intent. Certainly, men have misunderstood *_Truth_* throughout all of time. Only through perpetual humility do we have a chance of glimpsing more and more of truth.
As with any set of conflicting claims, one, the other, *_or both_* could be wrong.
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@04:29 but he does...specifically the first 6 days in Genesis...
Born raised UPCI, differ now on many doctrines after study....
I must admit I am disappointed in this explanation. I expected more from bro Bernard. If genesis isn't literal then you don't have authority for claims of Christianity.
The methods these " experts" use are very flawed.
Great talk
Magnificent exposition on this topic. I am a Christian and have several degrees in sciences and medicine and I have never heard a pastor explain all this in such a grounded and quite frankly, wise way. I too agree with almost all of it. The disagreement is infimal. But this video is underrated and am sad not many people have watched this video. The Dr. needs more exposure. This needs to get out there into mainstream Christianity.
Well that education was certainly wasted on you. What do you burn to cure leprosy? Birds or goats?
Leviticus 14
I don't understand. How could you have degrees in the sciences and medicine, and think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, which would also mean you don't accept the facts of biological evolution..?
*Evolutionary medicine* is its own branch of science; it works, of course, and much progress is being made in several areas concerning medicine and biological evolution, so I'm just wondering how you can think the Earth is 6,000 years old?
Maybe you don't, and I'm just misinterpreting your comment or something, I don't know:-)
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Degrees in Christian science? 😂
@@JB-yb4wn .. only $150 from a diploma mill! They're so inexpensive, there's no reason why everybody doesn't have at least one..
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Oh most apologetics pros have at least a dozen, makes dem seem reel smert. 😣
First speaker I've listened to (compared to others) who seems to have his head screwed on, and I'm not particularly religious.
If the Earth was made before the Sun, Moon, and stars… what did the Earth rotate around?
or was everything made to move around the Earth within the firmament?
Honestly I’m over the whole “Let the science classes teach our children in school and we’ll role with that”
The bible explains that the earth is unmoveable. The earth does not rotate, that's all a lie. The earth is flat. Man has never walked on moon, all a hoax. the devil wants ppl to believe lies and confuse ppl for them not to believe that God is real. If u believe in flat earth u have to believe that God is real and that's what the devil doesn't want. Flat earth explains so much things in the bible that we don't understand.
@@kimlayne1993 Honestly, after a lot of studying and looking into the Word. I actually understand where you are coming from.
Science isn’t making sense, after all…it’s all about deception.
@@kimlayne1993 The Earth isn't flat, try to balance things.
@@noahanderson238 do a research on flat earth and u will see what I am speaking about. The reason why the devil wants ppl to believe that the earth is round is that if u believe that the earth is flat then u will have no other choice but to believe in God. Flat earth debunks atheism. Just like flat earth explains that the earth was created that's how Genesis explains it.
@@francise.j.verzosa710 the earth is flat go and do ur research and u can ask the Creator of this world to tell u the truth if u know and believe in him.
The riches that seem money is NOTHING from what GOD HAS SHOWN HIM
Keep it simple the moon is round, so we eventually found sun round, so its pretty much the standard.
Profound narrative. Psalm 147: 4 "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names". In this scripture one can imagine beyond the big bang concept that each body of the galactic terrestrials were singularly created and placed by God in a very caring manner. It definitely gives insight in to how vast and infinite God is. Another example is Psalms 90:4 “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Peter quoted it as "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
So, I am left to believe as Bro. Bernard, the teaching is about God and not science.
I agree, there is zero science in what he's talking about here.
Kajuniter, In 2 Peter 3 God proves to us that the world was created about 6,000 years ago because in prophecy each day represents 1,000 years, thus, Adam to Christ's birth was 4,000 years, Adam's sinning to Christs death and resurrection was 4,000 years, and in "Hosea 6:2 Christ will return after the 2,000 year gentile period and then we will reign with Christi for the Sabbath 1,000 year period while Jesus Christ is our High Priest. Does this make sense to you?
@@danminer5343, by not having a thorough study on your subject, I will agree the Gentile period is about up. That said, would make your years align closely. Good point to consider, thanks!
@@Kajuniter - Thank you and may God bless you in searching for the truth.
If the Bible was that easy to understand (2:23) why are there so many denominations that differ with one another on many passages in the Bible
Roy, you have posted the first intelligent question in this forum, too many lazy thinkers here.
@@JB-yb4wn Thank you 👍
@@roybuckle7576
You are very welcome.
the bible can only be interpreted one way. and one way only. denominations do not change the Word. no one can change it. just because there are many denominations, doesnt mean God's word or its interpretation changes. get it right
it teaches Existence and what we dont understand is on us...
I love your videos and this is by far my favorite. A large number of my fellow believers believe this is a heaven and hell issue. You summed it up very well. Thank you!
He summed it up very well using a strawman, that one doesn't need to understand Genesis to be saved. No one believes that. We all know you don't clean fish till their caught. Theistic Evolution undermines the words of God through Moses, while claiming the Bible and evolution are homogeneous. They are oil and water. When the going gets rough, people are assisted in walking away when they do not have a SURE foundation to stand upon. That's heaven and hell.
Seems like man has a continuous struggled with Gods perspective.
The microphone is so huge, it almost covered half of his face.
This is only the second video of this guy I've ever watched and I'm probably done.... He definitely eisegetes the text and brings his own views into his interpretation instead of letting God's work speak for itself.... I read one comment down the list about radiocarbon dating and it's obvious that the writer of this particular comment knows nothing about radiocarbon dating or parent isotope dating. From what I see in the world the lord Jesus is going to save a lot of people who are very wrong as long as they believe that he is the Son of God and was raised from the dead....
1st Timothy 6:20. My Bro. has the truth about water and spirit. Water baptism in Jesus Name, baptism of the Holy Ghost truth along with the truth of the oneness of God!! Don’t try to make God fit the mold of science! We know the word “yom” is a 24 hour day!! When God spoke these things immediately came into being!! Just like the storm on the sea!! No different! If the Lord be God, serve Him!! If science, then serve it!! Bottom line!! Our God is supernatural!! Let God be true and every man a liar!!
Amen🙌🏼
"You know what? You're fired!" Cracked me up!!!
do a word search of firmament. - a solid structure that God is well pleased with, which he beat out and stretched which separates the waters ABOVE from the waters BELOW - the biblical account of creation paints the picture of stationary flat earth which is covered by a solid dome in which the sun, moon and stars are within it, all of which is set on pillars. Also if I am wrong ,,,, please point me to the scripture which says God made a spinning earth orbiting in a expanding universe. please enlighten me.
Einstein's theory of relativity proves that both things can be true at once. Time is relative to the observer. From earth's perspective, the universe could be thousands of years old, while from the perspective of light, it's billions of years old. Also, the Bible clearly describes the expansion of the universe; the expansion of space is much faster than the speed of light. So to me, it's a moot point.
A good book by Apostolic young earth creation scientist, Arlo E Moehlenpah is entitled "Creation versus Evolution, Science and Religious Considerations" in which he answers Theistic Evolution and responds directly to the philosophical approach as expressed here by Brother Bernard.
What's a moot point, Einstein's theory? When theories are proven they become law, as in Newton's Law of Gravity. No one has it can prove, in the slightest, billions of years.
In this interview I was disappointed their was no mention of a cataclysmic Flood. Flood evidence is overwhelming. It accounts for physical evidence like fossils, sediment, rock formations, canyons, etc. Unfortunately, an alarming number of Apostolics nowadays readily cast doubt on the Bible, yet accept Theistic Evolution without question.
Many Christians' faith have been shaken by Evolution because it attacks the Bible at it's foundation. Theistic Evolution is an unhealthy compromise because if it were true and we are honest, we have to say the Bible is not true. First and foremost, TE does not stand on its own merits.
When did Einstein become God?? Let God be true and every man a liar!! The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked!! Gods Word is truth!! He is a supernatural God and Is to this very day!!
Doesn't matter the age. When God made Adam. He made Adam with age. When Adam was a few minutes old, he looked like a mature young man. When God turned water into wine. He made aged wine. How do you make the best wine ? You age it. God could very well have made the earth with age already in it . Important thing is that God made the heavens and the earth. God bless.
We have a reconstructed tree ring record of German trees going back nearly 12,000 years. We have annual ice layers in ice cores going back nearly 1 million years. So, the Earth is demonstrably far older than 6,000 years old. The other stars in the universe are literally millions of light years away. It takes that long for their light to reach us and we are literally seeing them from the deep past.
It depends on what belief system you have behind ones measurements and expectations, as to what results you gain. If a person wants to not believe in the One True Christian God of the Bible, well much will be done to try and destroy the Bible and True Christian belief by interpreting data wrongly and applying worldly, non-Biblical optics to such data. The question is: is one to believe the Bible, or believe in unbelieving man?
Wow, I've been waiting for you Ptr. Bernard to tackle this topic, for I backslid because of the scienrific views and I thought it is inconsistent woth the bible... but,
With you being said that science is consistent with the bible, and that billions of years creation may be true, I have trouble combining the idea in Genesis that God formed man, and in scientific view, evolution from primordial soup, to fish, to ape, to man?
Anyone who replies and answers will be greatly appreciated...🙂
Brother there is so so so much evidence for young earth and many people and scientists ready and willing to prove ,debate, and share that information. First of all if God said it its true and he Clearly gave us the geanalogies from Adam to Jesus. Do the math you can't quezze millions of years any where. The earth and its inhabitants were created instantly in 6 days period the Bible is clear on this. The devil Job is to get you to doubt this just like he did with eve. All you have to do is reject his lies and lean on God's word. If you don't understand stand something prayer for revelation. He will answer. Kent hovind debated almost every university in the 1990s and destroyed there best prophessors and all there evidence. Go to TH-cam and watch all his debates you will doubt Young earth again.
Consider reviewing the abundance of information and research available from Answers in Genesis (TH-cam and Website)
Books to read: Darwin's Demise and Evolution Exposed: Biology
1st Timothy 6:20
What we taught in science at school is mostly controlled by the devil and isn't true. I think u need to do a study on flat earth and it will give u all the answers u need. Today's science will always contradicts what the bible says because the devil is behind it. The bible said the devil is the father of lies.
@@kimlayne1993 the earth isn’t flat!! I’ve been up over 47,000ft and have seen the curvature myself! The Bible says “He took the circle of the earth and suspended it upon nothing”. The earth is most definitely round!! God made it that way and it’s clear in scripture.
Funny how he said that.. 20 years old in one minute
The lord is the light of my salvation in whom should I Fear,The Lord is the stronghold of my Life,in whom shall I be Afraid 'AMEN Psalm 27
If death didn’t begin after Adam’s sin, why did Jesus have to die? I don’t expect an answer and I know I won’t get one.
your missing one critical point, which is the flood
Thank You! I appreciate your mention of different ideas and opinions on these subjects for context...... To me, there appears to be a distinction between 'creation' and 'formation' in the Bible...... I've always seen Genesis 1 as a brief overview from God's perspective..... In his 'creation' story God tells us firsthand how the universe came to be, as he describes it in simple terms.... God was/is not restricted to 24hour days or any measure of time in any way..... When the story begins, God hadn't yet 'created' the sun, moon, and stars which is how we calculate time.
In Gen1 God talks about 'creating' everything including mankind..... then he's done...... it's "very good" (it functions in harmony)...... then he rests..... Yet in Gen2 some of the story is repeated but this time he says he 'forms' man.... At this point the Biblical perspective seems to shift from God's perspective (outside of time) to our perspective (linear time) as the Bible continues on from there..... We experience this ongoing 'formation' process firsthand because we're living inside it...... God doesn't.......The only exception being the few days he spent as a human being formed into flesh as Jesus.
As far as God is concerned everything is completed..... Perhaps from God's perspective everything has always been, and always is completed....... Maybe from our perspective as humans, everything will always be forming and never completed.
Something interesting I noticed in Genesis is that it says He made all the plants grow from the ground. I always just pictured it growing really fast (like that time lapse video). And I think God’s light travels faster than the speed of light. Lol
“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
Romans 1:20 ESV
I like how this verse specifically denotes how obvious it is that some eternal power and divine nature created the world.
Well no it doesn't. If you are too stupid to google this stuff up, then go ahead and live in your blessed ignorance, just don't breed or vote.
Awesome 👏🏼
The science book says the earth is 4.5 billion yrs. old, the bible, the religious book of christians, says the earth is only about 6,000 yrs. old. The bible, among other things, says animals can talk, sticks can turn into snakes, people can turn into salt and rise from the grave, food can fall from the sky.. ? I'll go with the science book.
The Bible actually doesn’t say how old the earth is. That’s a belief of uneducated Christians.
Me and my dog have conversations every day 😂
How does that work ?@@jamesdavis8937
***sorry the bible do not say such a thing, those stupids made it.***
Great topic, well covered.
I love listening to Chuck Missler's teachings on these things... he's great with the scientific facts and proofs of biblical truths.
You wouldn't know a scientific fact if it punched you hard in the face.
Couldn't agree more !
He brought me back to God with Proof.
@@JB-yb4wnI'm genuinely curious why you watch a video you have no interest in?
I disagree on the age of the earth but agree we should be seeking lost souls
❤️IF you would have seen and examined adam after GOD our Father in Heaven created him ,adam would have appeared to be a fully grown man and he was ...and not a baby ...but he was created by GOD in that one day . In the same way the living GOD our Father in Heaven made the earth just as written in the Word of GOD in Genesis .it was created by GOD in six days but appears to be much older ,yet we KNOW by the Word of GOD the approximate age of the earth and it is NOT millions or billions of year old but under 7000 years old !!! and you will KNOW the truth and the TRUTH will make you FREE .John 8 vs 32 .Everything was made IN YESHUA and he makes NEW men and women yet just call on him and KNOW him this day ( See John 14 vs 17 vs 21 vs 23 vs 29 after Calling on him and just ask and be given by GOD and SEE and HEAR and KNOW him !!!🕊️
I see, the same way that he created night and day before the sun? Well that makes sense.
God is good ❤
Interestingly enough, Jesus turned water into good wine in an instant (John 2).
😂 Wow brother David also drank the coole' of the scientific concensus. Example, what tool was used to measure speed of light. What tool was used to measure the speed of light travelling from the sun to earth.
Bro. Bernard, I am a fellow Apostolic (former UPC), but I respectfully disagree with you and subscribe to the Creation account, and geologies (yes they may be imperfect, but not billions and millions of years imperfect) as written in the Word of God, 6 literal creation days, flood sediment and fossils, I do not subscribe to modern science as it is interpreted from a world view of evolution and atheism and not the Word of God. I fully subscribe to the YEC argument, the flood account (with a mixture of catastrophic plate tectonics and the hydroplate theory), and absolutely reject evolution (unless we are speaking of micro evolution or speciation in which we observe in science). While I appreciate the viewpoint, it to me seems to be yet another UPC compromise to better fit in with the modern world. I wish we could just stick with the message as written. The Earth is less than 10k years old, there was a flood around 4500 or so years ago, and Jesus is coming back for his bride. The gospel is all we need, not lowering our standards and message to win this world.
I will give due respect and honor where it is due, Your Oneness debates are top notch, and I will be using a lot of your arguments in my apologetics message when I begin my creation and Apostolic apologetics ministry.
Yeah, sounds like he thinks young earthers rely solely on Jesus Magic to explain their position and assumes every atheist theory, except evolution, to be proven fact.
What "atheist theories"?
@@Pikkabuu Sorry, should have said secularist theory. Basically anything we universally accept as "fact" on the matter are simply just theories. When scientific problems arise in those theories, it's human nature to defend them rather than question one's own beliefs. If that's difficult for the scientists, how worse is it for the layman. The average layman doesn't even grasp this concept, assumes all this as proven fact and has no investment in committing brain matter to the subject.
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Science doesn't go by belief as science has evidence.
Nor is science secular either! It simply follows the evidence.
Also you should educate yourself on what a scientific theory is.
@@Pikkabuu Parsing my words and using exclamation points? Guess you win. Point is YEC are using evidence as much as anyone else and the speaker is talking like they aren't.
@@southpawjimmy9735
What evidence have YEC's provided?
05.49 great confusion comes by equating Gen1&Gen2 garden eden≠earth nor does eat all = all but tree of... Adam&Eve were not first man
Young Earth creationists exclude the first earth age. It requires poor mental gymnastics to deny the literal interpretation of the verses which discuss this age. They are well-equipped to rise to the task.
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”― Carl Sagan
True, but people can misinterpret.
The light we see is the real time light and not past time light of some sec or mins or years or light years or millions of billions of years, the light time we now know is the half time of the whole time of light to travel back to the source, so we cant really calculate the one way time of the light, so stars and other luminaries light's one way travel to earth is instant means we are observing the real time light and not the half of some two way light time calculation
And your evidence of this is.....
@@Pikkabuu the theory of light itself go study it first, the distance is exactly the half of the two way measurement of light, we can't simply know one way speed of light, the one way speed of light is the actual reality not some hypothetical measurement of equally divided two way measurement
@@chetanpaulr
Science doesn't state that light travels in an instant. So you still need to provide evidence for your claim!
@@Pikkabuu science can't prove it that's the point man 😆 what are are you getting at? 🤣
@@chetanpaulr
Science has shown the speed of light being 299 792 458 m/s! Light not being instantenous was already understood in the 17th century!
Did Adam have to fight dinosaurs.
No, he just harnessed them up and used them to move stones around in his rock quarry.
Didn’t God cause Aaron’s rod to bud overnight? Nothing is impossible with God!
Amen!
The findings of science (empirical evidence of God's handiwork) contradict the YEC *_interpretation_* of scripture. God's Truth, both in scripture AND science is never a contradiction. So, we are left with: *_God, please help me understand your words more accurately!_*
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Paul quotes from Job 5:13 to show that God catches those who are supposedly wise in their craftiness. He knows all their supposedly wise ideas and teachings will not help them to escape a face-to-face meeting with Him in the end.
The earth is 6000 years . God created the earth and all in it in 6 days.
I suggest a little more study on the speed of light, etc...
These interpretations lead to discrepancies in how you interpret the Bible. I don’t see how the scientific revolution answers the fundamental fact that Adam sinned, and that affected all of us. God created the universe and created life. There was a flood, and that illuminates the need for millions of years to lay down settlements. This guy needs to get serious about the Bible and stop trying to interpret the Bible using changeable scientific conjecture.
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS. wAIT a second....what are even facts anyway? We don't need those things
I don't know how old the Earth is, but I do know that without the Holy Ghost and being "born-again" we're not going into the Kingdom, and the only way to receive the Spirit of Christ is to obey Acts 2:38.
The Bible talks about aliens ufos giants is all that true ?
Interesting video. I would love a video on your take on evolution. I think I have move questions about that than the age of the earth. God bless.
How many books by evolutionary experts have you read? Would you ask a meat-eater about their take on the theory of the dietary benefits of a vegan diet?
'I think I have more questions about that than the age of the Earth'
Why wait for someone to make a video and upload it in order to find the answers you are looking for? There are plenty of free resources online to learn about biological evolution.
@@philipbuckley759 I don't understand this comment, either :-) are you talking about 'adding information to the genome', which I hear young-earth creationists mention often? Biological evolution is not about chance, really. I mean, mutations can occur randomly, of course, but natural selection isn't random, and other aspects of evolution are not random.. and 'information' accumulates in several ways.
Gene duplication would be one of them.
Gene Duplications are a common starting point for the evolution of new genetic information. When gene duplications occur, they dramatically lengthen the genetic code of an individual. As point mutations add up in the duplicated region across generations, entirely new genes with new functions can evolve.
That's just one example, there are other ways new genes form.
Anyway, if 'new information' could not be added, don't you think biologists / geneticists would have figured that out a long, long time ago?
This person wants to hear a Godly message about evolution. Not something from google
@@francestrewin1715 I don't know about any 'Godly' information concerning evolution, unless we're talkin about intelligent design I suppose, but she or he could hit up PubMed, Google Scholar, Etc and find hundreds of thousands of technical scientific peer-reviewed papers on the subject of biological evolution.
That is, *if* the person is honestly interested in learning about evolution, of course.
So the earth is how old?
Doesn’t a long creation week require deaths before sin…?
If so, it’s not a viable solution.