Name: Patrick weir
Question: the biblical account of creation taking place in seven days is not possible. the simple biblical account of repopulation following the flood is not possible. and nearly every other extraordinary biblical event is embraced in the same manner, dismissing the biblical accounts as being merely bible stories of these events.if those biblical accounts are not to be believed, why should anyone believe that Jesus was born of a virgin? That isn’t possible. is the tribulation a bible story? the rapture, the return of Jesus, a new heaven and a new earth and an eternal life? God always was and always will be? that isn’t possible.
just how big is this God we claim to believe? a god that can create and repopulate, a god that can birth a son through a virgin, a god that can promise eternal life…and yes, eternal death in fires of hell. but that God is limited to our ability to give an earthly explanation for His all inclusive power? it is no wonder that the church is so ineffective at drawing people to God. why should anyone bow their knee to a God whose written acccounts are fairytales?
God does not need our help to make human sense of His works. He wants our faith because we need His help. the human accounts of all God’s miraculous works are all “believed” because they cannot be proven any more than the biblical accounts. why does any christian desire to embrace human accounts of events by faith and reject the biblical accounts that are to be accepted by faith.
the answer is easy. this is what the leaders are teaching them. the church loves pointing to last day prophetic events. wars, rumours of wars, famine, earthquakes in diverse places. all these are humanly understandable. What is not heralded are those prophecies of false teachers and false doctrine in the last days. these come through spiritual understanding.
you have a very public ministry that touches many lives. make up your mind. is our faith to be in God through His Word, or are we to preach a gospel that has been reduced down to a humanly comprehensible fairytale.
the god i serve created in seven days and he will one day remove both the dead in Christ and those still alive in Christ, from this earth…and He will do so in the “twinkling of an eye”. he doesn’t need thirteen billion years to accomplish the task. grow a set, brother. stop apologizing for God and proclaim God confidently and boldly.
Answer: Pat,
Good evening.
It’s clear from your email, you disagree with some of my studies. However, you didn’t cite any Scriptures, instead, you’re showing your emotion.
Let’s Discuss Creation
So we’re on the same page, creation didn’t last for seven days right? God created for six days, and then He rested on the seventh.
Now, yes, much of the Bible is literal, but not all of it, surely you understand that?
- Is the beast of Revelation literal?
- Is an army of locusts literal?
No.
Now, you believe that God created the Heavens and the earth in six literal days, correct?
If so, you have a big problem…
The Bible says,
“Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night … God made two great lights … the evening and the morning were the fourth day,” (Gen 1:14-19).
Clearly, we’re talking about the sun, wouldn’t you agree?
If so, then how can there be a day at all, before the fourth day of Genesis?
We both know, the sun was not appointed by God to provide light on the earth until the Fourth Day of Genesis.
Before the Fourth Day of Genesis, there was no light from the sun on earth, and a “day” had not even been established.
This means there was no “evening and the morning,” there was no “day” brought about by our sun until the Fourth Day of Genesis.
So, how could everything have been created in six 24 hour periods of time?
It couldn’t.
Honestly, I don’t care what anyone believes about that. Yet, it just doesn’t add up. If we’re going to talk about 24 hour periods time, then you have to have a sun on day 1, and there was no sun, according to Scripture.
The Global Flood Theory
As for a global flood, it’s not about believing or not believing in God. God can do anything, just look around. He created the universe, you and I, and this marvelous planet and all life. That’s miraculous enough for me to believe anything. However, I’m a man of faith and logic. God is very logical, God is a mathematician, an astronomer, and so on. He created us with an ability to reason. That’s all I’m doing.
When I read the Bible, and when I look around me, a global flood does not make sense. When I read Scripture, when I look at the Hebrew word for “earth,” it means “land” and/or “country” far more often that it means “earth.” The flood was regional, the flood covered the entire “land.”
What land?
The land where Noah lived, the land where the fallen angels and Giants dwelt. That was the reason for the flood, to eradicate that wickedness that had polluted the family God would use to eventually spread the Gospel to the world.
Pat: “What is not heralded are those prophecies of false teachers and false doctrine in the last days. these come through spiritual understanding.”
Don’t blame me for that, all right?
I talk about this stuff all the time, I’ve been talking about it for years and years.
In fact, my article the other day discussed false teachers. That is the reason our faith is dwindling, not because people like myself say there was no global flood, or say that we all didn’t come from Adam and Eve.
I mean come on here Pat, how many Christians do not believe in a global flood and one common ancestry?
Nearly all Christians believe that, yet our faith still dwindles.
Why?
It’s due to the aforementioned misunderstandings of Scripture.
To each their own, but our beliefs should not cause animosity.
Instead of looking where we can divide ourselves, why not look at where we can come together?