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I have just finished writing several articles for http://GeoCreationism.com discussing death and Original Sin. For reference, here are the articles:

Our Death in Adam
Genesis 3:6-7
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
Romans 5:12

The common message is that death entered the world through the sin of Adam. However, there appears to be more than one meaning for the word death. This is commonly overlooked in discussions on original sin, regardless of one’s perspective. For example, when it comes to Original Sin, many YECs (Young Earth Creationists) always interpret “death” as physical, while many OECs (Old Earth Creationists) always interpret “death” as spiritual. Either extreme leaves any interpretation of scripture wanting.

There are three kinds of death in scripture, when it comes to sin. They …

 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:9 has one of those oddities in it that I had always dismissed as just Moses’ writing style. It’s the double use of the word erets (world, earth). The two usages sound like subtly different meanings to me, but I always dismissed it because I assumed that either the earth was young, or Moses thought it was. At the very least, I didn’t think it mattered because the verses wasn’t really worth trying to reflect history, science, and such anyway. But now, in the context of this blog, I have come …

In Genesis 11:1 - The Tower of Babel - Development of Language, we discussed the possibility that the ”one language” and one “common speech” that “the whole world spoke” in Genesis 11:1 was Sumerian. This might seem to be a problem when you consider that Semitic languages go back almost as far (3rd to 4th millennium BC), because that mean there were two languages (or more) that were being spoken at the time, not just the one. If scripture is meant literally, then something must either be wrong with the scientific methods or the scripture, right?

A Young Earth Creationist would have no problem arguing that there is something wrong with the science used to establish the use of …

Joseph at Always Have a Reason requested a few guest posts about Geocreationism. In response to my first guest post, Geocreationism- Introduction, he suggested I check out the book by Walter Brown, entitled In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. The preceding link is to an online copy of the book, so I have decided to take up the challenge.
The last Young Earth Creation book I reviewed was “Evidence for Creation” by Tom DeRosa. It was a rather painful review in many ways, where valid points are made about the attitude secular scientists have toward God, but then their work is completely misunderstood and miscast. To date, I have tended to …

Thought I’d take a break from Noah’s family this morning.  There is a blog entry I found a few years ago called, Wrestling with Evolution, by Tim Challies. I like his article, because he is a Young Earther with an air of civility toward us Old Earthers… something I appreciate very much.  He opens with the following…
Christians are accustomed to treating evolution as an account of the world’s origins that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and something that a person could only believe in the absence of God or in the absence of faith. But this is not quite fair. There are now many Christians—Christians who treasure the Bible and who affirm the truths of the historic Christian faith—who …

A primary obstacle to discussing The Flood with a Young Earther has to do with how you read the scripture.  Many will say that you have to read it literally.  Personally, I find that quite appealing.  However, as you read through The Flood’s account, you immediately find yourself having to relax that rule when God says he is going to wipe out “all” of mankind… but is going to save Noah and his family.  Clearly, Noah is a man, yet God clearly separated him from the “all” that he was referring to.  Apparently, even when the word “all” is used by God, God still reserves the right to list exceptions. 

So, backing off the strictly literal method of interpretation, one can still insist that …

While posting on the 7 Days of Creation and Righteousness for the last several years, I have been researching various theories on The Great Flood.  However, I have wanted to avoid posting any actual theory on The Flood until my analysis of Genesis 1-6 had played itself out, and I could see exactly how my theories of Geocreationism would weigh in to the argument.

Generally speaking, I never accepted The Flood as a global flood since I was a child.  I always knew the scripture was true, and assumed I would eventually understand the evidence for it.  I have studied the Creation Science for a recent global flood, and the secular science arguing against no flood at all.  Of particular interest to …

The story of Cain and Abel is a familiar one.  Cain tills the earth and Abel tends sheep.  They both prepare offerings to God.  God favors Abel’s sacrifice of his best lamb over Cain’s offering of vegetables.  Cain kills Abel, and God punishes Cain.  He then marks Cain so that no one will kill him for what he did.

The main Creation challenge for Christians in this story is generally lodged toward the end of it, when Cain takes a wife.  Genesis 4:17…
 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 
Who did he marry?  His sister?  And what’s …

 3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
To my Young Earth Creationist friends, verse 5 is clear evidence that the earth is young.  Why?  Because Evolutionists do not believe that the earth was formed out of water and by water.  On the other hand, Genesis 1:2 says this about …

Wow.  I have been doing this word study on righteousness for nearly a year and a half, feeling at least in part like it is too much a distraction from Geocreationism to be posted on this blog… yet, perhaps out of laziness (I didn’t want to create another blog), I posted my entire venture through the verses on righteousness on this blog.  Now, I come to the last chapter in the bible that contains the word Righteousness, and I am simply floored.  What floored me?  Here is the last verse on righteousness, 2 Peter 3:13:
13But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
It has been so easy …