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Creation and the story-line of the Bible. Dr Steve Lloyd Hope Church, Gravesend and Biblical Creation Ministries www.biblicalcreationministries.org.uk. 2 stories?. Evolution story: life made itself Bible story: creation – fall – redemption – restoration. Debating Darwin.
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Creation and the story-line of the Bible Dr Steve Lloyd Hope Church, Gravesend and Biblical Creation Ministries www.biblicalcreationministries.org.uk
2 stories? Evolution story: • life made itself Bible story: • creation – fall – redemption – restoration
Debating Darwin 3 core doctrines: • Adam, the physical ancestor of all humanity • Flood as a global catastrophe • No-agony-before-Adam
2 stories? • Evolution story: • life made itself • death always present • Bible story: • creation – fall – redemption – restoration • death from sin
human physical death • Romans 5v12: “...sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” • 1 Corinthians 15v21: “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.”
physical death and salvation • Colossians 1v22: “But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death...” • 1 Peter 2v24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree...by his wounds you have been healed.”
animal suffering and death • Genesis 6v7: (NRSV) “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created - people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air,for I am sorry that I have made them”
animal suffering and death • Genesis 6v12-13: (NRSV) “And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth...the earth is filled with violence because of them”
all flesh = ? • e.g. Genesis 7v21: (NRSV) “And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings”
Bible’s story-line: new creation creation new creation creation
Bible’s story-line: new creation creation new creation creation
New creation • Revelation 21v4: “There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
The New Creationism Paul Garner • Overview of a creation model • £9
judgement creation new creation second coming flood The flood in the story-line of the Bible