Tag Archives: days of creation
Putting the FUN in Fundamentalist, one DAY at a Time
The Following is from a conversation I had with a Catholic friend I like and admire. If you are defining a “Fundamentalist” as someone who refuses to accept any part of the bible as poetic or figurative, then I do … Continue reading
A Quick look into Church History About the History of the Earth
The following is from a conversation I had with a Catholic friend I like and admire: You made a passing comment about the lack of uniform belief in a literal week about 6,000 years ago through church history, and of … Continue reading
Mark 6 and a Literal Interpretation of Scripture
This is part of a conversation I had with a Catholic friend I like and admire. In his previous email, he had questioned by use of Mark 10:6 to defend the idea that Jesus believed and taught that the creation … Continue reading
Consider the Text (Genesis gets its YOM on)
The following is from a conversation I had with a Catholic friend I like and admire: Genesis 1 refers to each day as a “day”, in numbered order, and with the inclusion of evening and morning. What in the text, … Continue reading
A Giraffe By Any Other Name… Confessions of a YEC Part 13
Hello, friends! We’re still taking a good long look into why I am a Young Earth Creationist, and we’ve reached the point where we’re looking into the text of Genesis to see what the Bible says. This is an unpopular … Continue reading
On Planting a Field of Giraffes- Confessions of a YEC Part 12
The next objections to taking Genesis chapter one at its word come from events which are supposed to take much longer than a single day, and thus, it is argued, those days cannot be literal days: The third day, and … Continue reading
When was the First Sunny Day?- Confessions of a YEC Part 11
Most recently I explained the various reasons why the days of Creation in Genesis 1 MUST be interpreted as normal, 24 hour, calendar days. But there are a couple of objections brought up by The Old Earth Creationist (OEC) model … Continue reading
