Commenting on Creation

This short article was on the back page of this month's Answer's Update, the newsletter of Answers In Genesis.


Many theologians today declare that Christians should believe in evolution and millions of years of earth history. Why is that?


As we researched this topic, we discovered that theologians who compromise with Genesis are putting their trust in secular science’s fallible dating methods. They do not fully believe the infallible Word of God as it relates to origins, though they may be sincere Christians.


In the Bible commentaries before the 1800’s, almost all Christian theologians accepted the six literal days of Creation and a global Noah’s Flood. There was no hint that they argued for a universe that is billions of years old.


In the past two centuries, as Darwin’s ideas have taken root in society, Bible commentaries have been increasingly teaching that the days of Creation were not literal days—and that the Flood of Noah was just a local event (not global). As you read through them carefully, you will find that the underlying reason the commentaries question the length of the Creation days and the global nature of the Flood is almost always because of accepting the fallible theories of scientists about the age of the earth. It rarely has to do with what the biblical text might teach.


It’s so sad that many theologians today—and most Bible colleges and seminaries—take Genesis figuratively but man’s theories literally!