YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM IS CONTROVERSIAL. But Is It Based On The Facts? What does the Bible have to say about Creation?

What's the harm in believing in Young Earth creationism?

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answers question by Hollie Black Ramsey

There is no harm in believing in Young Earth creationism. However, if you believe that there is no real evidence and that only mere speculation and circular arguments are used to claim that the Earth is billions of years old—asserting that all proposed theories are just fairy tales produced by the imagination of people seeking an ego trip among those in their echo chamber—then it is best not to express such sentiments. This is especially true if you are seeking a livelihood among sectors of society where this belief is dogma; by doing so, you may be doing yourself harm.




If you dogmatically believe that the Earth was created in seven literal twenty-four-hour periods, I suggest you revisit the Bible and ask yourself the following questions to ensure you are not walking in deception:




1. If every day mentioned in the first chapter of the book of Genesis was a twenty-four-hour period, why was the Sun and the Moon created on the Fourth Day?
2. A twenty-four-hour day relies upon the Earth spinning. How could Days One and Two be calculated as the same period of 24 hours as the other days when the Earth had not yet been created?
3. Why does the First Day begin with an evening and not a morning?
4. Why does the Seventh Day have no evening?
5. Why does the Bible say that in the DAY (one day) that the Lord made the Heavens and the Earth?
6. If the Sun and Moon, which provide us with our twenty-four-hour day and night cycle (although technically it is the rotation of the Earth), were created on the Fourth Day, how could the first three days be considered twenty-four hours if they are to be taken seriously as being the same day and night as we know today?

The Earth was created on the Third Day; therefore, there was nothing to measure its speed for a twenty-four-hour day cycle until the Fourth Day.

Since the First Day did not have a morning, this suggests that we are looking at eternity as the timeline and not a twenty-four-hour period.

The Seventh Day has not ended, according to the book of Hebrews, chapter Four, which explains why there is no evening mentioned for the Seventh Day, even though there was an evening mentioned after the Sixth Day and a mention of the following morning for the Seventh Day.

When we read in the Epistle of Peter (2 Peter 3:8) that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord and a thousand years is like a day, this does not mean, as some people believe, that the Days of Creation are each one thousand years in duration. Rather, it indicates that time is of no concern to God and, unlike humans, death does not bring an end to the day of God’s existence. When we comprehend this truth, we understand that when the Bible states that in the DAY the Lord God created the Heavens and the Earth, there is no time measurement required, for it does not matter. God could have performed the entire operation in a matter of seconds, or He could have allowed an orderly process to take place, where one requirement became the prerequisite for the next step.

Does God creating the Heavens and the Earth in a single day mean that this was twenty-four hours? No. It also does not mean that it was billions of years. What this means is that the time taken by God to create the Universe in which we live, including the first two progenitors of the human race, cannot be measured by us and does not really matter.

However, the harm in believing in a Young Earth depends on whether one seeks the truth or desires acceptance among those who reject the truth for career or financial reasons. The reality is that everyone is born and everyone dies, so to neglect striving to enter God’s rest is to disregard the reason for our current existence. Those who enter God’s rest discover that they are recipients of the assurance of having done so and possess eternal life.

The Bible Has A Consistency That Becomes Evident To The Enlightened