Pat Robertson Rejects 6 Day Creation/Young Earth

[commonsense]

Grew up believing Gen 1 as literal. We Are talking about the God of the universe.

But, as the years have passed, I've heard other "interpretations" of Creation.

Now I'm less certain of 6 days ..........and it's all the fault of AFF

[JamDat]

Why would someone listen to man who even if they are sincere have been wrong by their own admission several times about the age of the earth and the inhabitants of it?

Why not listen to God and His account or our beginning? God gave us the Genesis account so why not just say what He meant? If God gave us a measurement of a day for us to understand the creation why not just believe him? God isn't trying to trick us. To say that, means God is being deceitful. Then sin would have been the foundation of the world from the creator right? How could He be a substitute for our sin then?

If the earth was old don't you think that God would have worded it differently?

[crakjak]

I highly recommend Dr. Gerald Schroeder's book: "Genesis and the Big Bang" from a scientific and biblical view. It's great!

[trialedbyfire]

There's some things no matter how much we think we know, we'll just have to wait until we meet the creator to figure out how he did the creating.

[Nitehawk013]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Ya, when we make our annual visit to the Grand Canyon, they can be a riot (sometimes in a mad "bang your head on the ground" sort of way) when standing next to and listening to their explanations of how the Canyon formed.

Yet the old earthers think that little tiny river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon ran UPHILL in areas, above sea level even, for multiple millions and millions of years carving it out...and somehow that is believable.

[Nitehawk013]

Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

There's some things no matter how much we think we know, we'll just have to wait until we meet the creator to figure out how he did the creating.

Very true. UNtil then, I have seen more than enough evidence and heard more than enough scientists with just as many degrees behind their names to believe God's Word was literal when it says 6 days. We do not need Billions of years to explain what we see in the natural world.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Ya, when we make our annual visit to the Grand Canyon, they can be a riot (sometimes in a mad "bang your head on the ground" sort of way) when standing next to and listening to their explanations of how the Canyon formed.

Point taken!

Originally Posted by Nitehawk013

Yet the old earthers think that little tiny river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon ran UPHILL in areas, above sea level even, for multiple millions and millions of years carving it out...and somehow that is believable.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Point taken!

I stand with my head bowed in shame.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I stand with my head bowed in shame.

I feel for ya.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Timmy

I feel for ya.

After thinking about I believe a big issue is that young earthers simply have a hard time (impossible even) comprehending large numbers like a "million years", not to mention "billions" so they just think "bah, that can't happen!". And yet they have NO problems using terms like "eternity!" and "forever and ever!".