Thanks, Jonathan,
I'll have to look into Harold Clark and Ariel Roth, although generally I try
to distance myself from a lot of SDA teachings.
I do enjoy reading Morris and Rimmer, though then again I like some Carl
Sagan and Stephen Hawking, too.
Troy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Clarke" <jdac@alphalink.com.au>
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Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: YEC
> 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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