Could not resist this one.
Hi Troy
It sounds like your church, even though it is a KJV Baptist one, is following a
line that can be traced directly back to the Adventist Harold Clark. Clark
also believed, as do some current SDAs such as Ariel Roth, that the earth and
universe are old, but that life and the geological strata are young. I don't
know how to label this position, but it is certainly not that of the historic
Baptist churches, nor is it strict YEC in the style of Henry Morris. Perhaps
"Old earth young geology creationists" (OEGEC)?
Jon
Troy Elliott Eckhardt wrote:
> I attend an independent KJV baptist church. We really don't have an
> official statement about what type of creationists were are. I know that
> neither the pastor nor I are theistic evolutionists. Personally, I do not
> believe that the universe and the earth are only 10,000 years old, as many
> young Earth creationists believe. I draw this conclusion not only from the
> works of current cosmologists, but from the belief that the stones of fire
> upon which angels walked were the Earth, their abode from which they were
> outcast. I am also intrigued by God's commandment to Adam and Eve to
> REplenish the Earth, and by the statement that the Earth was void and
> without form, perhaps from a divinely induced catastrophe.
>
> I do believe that the Earth AS WE KNOW IT, that is, the geological
> formations and the species here, including Man, are young, possibly only a
> few thousand years old.
>
> Now is that what you'd call young Earth creationism, or at least some minor
> departure from it?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 8:04 AM
> Subject: YEC
>
> > Walt Hicks asked about my YEC church. Another prominent
> > ASAer attended this church (at least at one time).
> >
> > I don't go to Sunday service. From my small group, I
> > hear that the current position of my church is that the
> > earth is young. God just made it to look old.
> >
> > Jim
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