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In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth
That’s what the Word of God says
On the very first page

But then I went to school
And the science teacher taught me
That the world was formed by itself
Over millions of years

And so the animals began to come about
From different kinds of animals that came before
And starfish turned into dogs and cats
Hedgehogs and monkeys turned into people

The teacher showed us a painting all about it
And that means that it’s the truth
Because dinosaur fossils were found in the ground
That means the world is billions of years old

I was told not to believe in God
And the Bible’s just a fairy tale
That the paintings in my science class were true
And that people are just really smart monkeys

The paintings in my biology book
The pictures in my geology book
The verses in Genesis chapter 1
Some people said to just mix ’em all together

–“Millions of Bones and Years”–

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God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
–Genesis 1:24-26 (NIV)–

Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God.
–2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)–

Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
–1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV)–

The fool says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
    there is no one who does good.
–Psalm 14:1 (NIV)–

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
–Romans 1:18-23 (NIV)–

I use that trust to effectively brainwash them…our teaching methods are primarily those of propaganda. We appeal–without demonstration–to evidence that supports our position. We only introduce arguments and evidence that supports the currently accepted theories and omit or gloss over any evidence to the contrary.
–Dr. Mark Singham, Physics Professor–

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Dr. Henry Morris, “The Scientific Case Against Evolution.”

Dr. John R. Rice, Evolution or the Bible–Which? (Sword of the Lord, 1963).

The Bible: In the Beginning (20th Century Fox, 1966).

Wikipedia, “Qurna.” Local folklore holds that Qurna, Iraq is the specific location where the Garden of Eden used to exist in Genesis 2:10, 14.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed. (London, 1922), p. 563. “Qurna, the legendary site of the Garden of Eden.”

Iraq: A Tourist’s Guide (State Organization for Tourism, 1975), p. 47. “Al-Qurna, where the Tigris joins the Euphrates. It is the legendary spot of the Garden of Eden.” Smartraveller: “We continue to advise: Do not travel to Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, due to the volatile security situation and the threat of terrorism, armed conflict, kidnapping and violent crime.”

May there not have been eternal protoplasms and life-cells, out of which, during the past eternity, ascidians may have been evolved, and then by successive evolutions and transmutations, natural selection with “the survival of the fittest” and the destruction of the rest, all other animals, including the anthropoids and anthrops, may have been produced? Well, no; there would have been no such thing, and it is absurd to broach an hypothesis so irrational and baseless. Such a genesis would involve a power and skill which bespeak a personal agent and a designing mind—and that is what we call God. This absurd hypothesis not only finds no warrant, but flat contradiction, in Scripture.
–Dr. Thomas O. Summers–

WESLEYAN THEOLOGIANS THAT AFFIRMED YOUNG EARTH CREATION OR BISHOP USSHER’S TIMELINE FROM ANNALS OF THE WORLD. THESE TEACHERS CAN BE TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY AS INTERPRETERS OF GOD’S WORD, BECAUSE THEY ELEVATED THE DOGMA OF BIBLICAL REVELATION ABOVE MODERNIST IDEAS LIKE EVOLUTION. I SPOKE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN METHODIST CHURCH’S BIBLE COLLEGE. HE TOLD ME THAT THEIR DENOMINATION IS THE ONLY WESLEYAN DENOMINATION THAT TAKES A FIRM STANCE ON YOUNG EARTH CREATION. ACCORDING TO HIM, ALL OF THE WESLEYAN-HOLINESS AND PENTECOSTAL DENOMINATIONS, ARE CONFUSED AND AMBIGUOUS ABOUT THEISTIC EVOLUTION. ALTHOUGH HE HINTED THAT CHURCH OF GOD (CLEVELAND) MIGHT HAVE MORE YOUNG EARTH PEOPLE WITHIN IT. HE ALSO HINTED THAT THE INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF BIBLE CHURCHES IS FIRMLY YOUNG EARTH…

JOHN WESLEY

JOHN FLETCHER

ADAM CLARKE

CHARLES FINNEY

RICHARD WATSON*

THOMAS NEELY RALSTON*

THOMAS O. SUMMERS*

SAMUEL WAKEFIELD*

A. B. SIMPSON

A. W. TOZER

VIC REASONER

FRENCH ARRINGTON

THE SOUTHERN METHODIST CHURCH

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF BIBLE CHURCHES

CHURCH OF GOD (CLEVELAND, TN)

WESLEYAN THEOLOGIANS THAT REJECTED YOUNG EARTH CREATION; AND AS A RESULT, CANNOT BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY AS THEOLOGIANS, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT REGARD THE BIBLE TO BE THE ABSOLUTE AND SUPREME AUTHORITY ON MATTERS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. THEY ALLOWED UNPROVEN SCIENCE THEORIES LIKE EVOLUTION TO BE ELEVATED ABOVE THE BIBLE…

WILLIAM BURT POPE

THOMAS C. ODEN

MILDRED BANGS WYNKOOP

H. RAY DUNNING

RANDY MADDOX

H. ORTON WILEY

JOHN MILEY

AMOS BINNEY

BEN WITHERINGTON III

HOWARD SNYDER

CLARK PINNOCK

THOMAS JAY OORD

DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL

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*John Tigert, “The Methodist Doctrine of the Atonement,” The Methodist Quarterly Review (New York, 1884), p. 299. This article persuaded me that Thomas Summers’ Systematic Theology (1888) and Richard Watson’s Theological Institutes (1823), in that order, might have been the most thorough and orthodox of the 19th century Methodist theologians. However, Summers was pro-slavery and so I’d have decide against his teaching because of his poor judgment about such a glaring and obvious moral question; and would naturally favor WATSON because his British M.E.C. theology is probably more like Wesley’s and Clarke’s, in keeping with the young earth creation and anti-slavery stances. Samuel Wakefield’s A Complete System of Christian Theology (1862) was also M.E.C., anti-slavery, and taught young earth creation just like Watson did. Although Summers is thorough, I’d rather spend my energy on the Methodist theologian who had the good sense to fight against slavery during the Civil War era: WAKEFIELD. I’d also avoid Thomas Ralston’s Elements of Divinity (1847), because although its a thorough treatment of Wesleyan soteriology, like Summers, it was also a pro-slavery M.E.C. South theology book. But if I were forced to choose between Wakefield and Watson, I would choose Wakefield because he is very clear in his teaching on young earth creation and sides with Archbishop “Usher,” although he misspelled his name. Watson was ambiguous about the matter because he came before Darwin. –J.B.

Interesting side note: this Christian movie was produced by Bray Film Studios, the same that produced all the Hammer Horror films. Also, the guy who plays William Tyndale is the Sheriff of Rottingham in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Not that you needed to know these things. Its just some facts. –J.B.

In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
–Exodus 20:11 (KJV)–

This verse shows that the days in the first chapter of Genesis were real twenty four hour days. For you compare like things to like. Just as God worked six days and rested on the seventh, so the Israelites were to do also. The comparison would make no sense if the days were “seven ages” or were “seven ages” that overlapped each other (Day Age Theory) or if there was a huge gap between the days (Gap Theory). These are modern compromises to accommodate the alleged geological ages with the Biblical account of creation. Further this verse allows one to determine the age of the universe. Using the Biblical genealogies (Gen. 5; 11:10-32), Bishop Ussher determined the date of creation to be 4004 B.C. Although this may be off by one or two percent, it is a very accurate estimate based on Biblical revelation, not man’s speculation.

–EDITOR OF JOHN GILL’S COMMENTARY ON EXODUS 20:11–

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Norman Geisler, “A Response to Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis.”

AiG, “The Early Church on Creation.”

Douglas Hamp, The First Six Days (Yoel Press, 2007), ch. 7: “‘Days’ According to the Church Fathers.” Here is the AUDIO BOOK.

John Haley, Alleged Errors of the Bible (Whitaker House, 2019). Originally published in 1874, the year before Charles Finney died, under the title of An Examination of the Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, he was also from the same denomination at the time: the Congregational Church. While Haley technically remained silent on the age of the earth in this book, he seems to align with a traditional literalist view of the Genesis 1 six day creation, and would be much more compatible as a resource for believers in young earth creation, than Geisler or Gleason Archer are. It was Charles Finney who said, “For SIX THOUSAND YEARS God has been hearing it, and still the world is spared, and the vengeance of God has not yet burst forth to smite all His guilty calumniators to Hell!” (Sermon: “The Excuses of Sinners Condemn God”).

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin, 1991). This medieval church historian was a young earth creationist just like Josephus.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
–Philippians 4:6-7 (ESV)–

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CHRIST HAS ANOTHER LIFTING UP, not ignominious, but truly honorable; there is a lifting of him upon the pole of the gospel, in the preaching of the Word. Christ Jesus is to be lifted up every day; for that purpose he came into the world: “That like as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,” even so he might by the preaching of the truth be lifted up, “that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Christ is THE MINISTER’S GREAT THEME, in opposition to a thousand other things which most men choose. I would prefer that the most prominent feature in my ministry should be the preaching of Christ Jesus. Christ should be most prominent, not hell and damnation. God’s ministers must preach God’s terrors as well as God’s mercies; we are to preach the thunder of God’s law. If men will sin, we are to tell them that they must be punished for it. If they will transgress, woe unto the watchman who is ashamed to say, “The Lord cometh that taketh vengeance.” We should be unfaithful to the solemn charge which God has given us if we were wickedly to stifle all the threatenings of God’s word. Does God say, “The wicked shall be cast into hell, with all the nations that forget God?” It is our business to say so. Did the loving Saviour talk of the pit that burneth, of the worm that never dieth, and of the fire that can never be extinguished? It is ours to speak as he spake, and not to mince the matter. It is no mercy to men to hide their doom. But, my brethren, terrors never ought to be the prominent feature of a minister’s preaching. Many old divines thought they would do a great deal of good by preaching this. I do not believe it. Some souls are awakened and terrified by such preaching; they however, are but few. Sometimes, right solemnly, the sacred mysteries of eternal wrath must be preached, but far oftener let us preach the wondrous love of God. There are more souls won by wooing than by threatening. It is not hell, but Christ, we desire to preach.

–CHARLES SPURGEON, “CHRIST LIFTED UP”–