This past week I read an article about Pastors not being clear on creation, which I will cite in the end notes.  I was inspired to write on some things I have learned over the years regarding Genesis and creation.  I started out in Christianity as a gap theorist (not an evolutionist), but when I home schooled my children I became a young earth theorist.  I believe the bible is clear on the time line from Adam to present to be about six thousand years so that seemed reasonable as at that time young earth people believed in a six thousand year creation.  But then the young earth folks changed their timeline to 10,000 years.  I had a problem with that as the bible says we are in a 6,000 year time frame. So I began to explore. If young earth people can change from 6,000 to 10,000 years, why not 12,000 years or 20,000 years? 

The first thing I noticed is that people equate the age of the earth with the age of humanity, as in evolution.  As Christians we have to change that thinking because it does not have to be young earth and young humanity, or old earth and old humanity, it in fact could be old earth and young humanity.  As from previous blogs I have explored several points that young earth people do not take into account, geology, history, and archaeology, as well as the bible. Therefore it is more reasonable to pull together the whole of the matter rather than focus on a few small points.  And while putting together all these aspects of knowledge gives us the understanding, the bible has actually been clear all along, we have simply been taught incorrectly.

The first thing we have to remember is that we have an enemy who wants to cloud the bible so that humans stay ignorant and can be overcome.  With that in mind we then have to become intensely determined to do the research, and not simply regurgitate something someone once said.  As I pointed out in a previous blog if our information is thirty years old, it is time for an upgrade.  Firstly humans have not “evolved” there is no missing link,  that is because God created humans after a cataclysmic disaster.  Some people believe that God created the earth as a lump of clay and then made it look like what we see today.  But that is  not quite what Genesis says.